Trump's funding freeze threatens to upend Southwest's water crisis

Billions of dollars set aside to stabilize sinking water levels in the Colorado River and Lake Mead are under threat from the Trump administration's on-again, off-again funding freeze.

The nation's largest reservoir provides water for nearly 40 million people across Nevada, Arizona and southern California. Major cities like Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Phoenix depend on Lake Mead for survival — as does southern California agriculture. Native American tribes and other rural communities depend on it as well.

Joanna Allhands, Arizona Republic opinion editor,  joins Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd to explain.