more serious issue out in the western united states and specifically the southwest so the colorado river basin the central valley of california and those are some of the places where course much of our food in this country is produced well if that's where the red light is flashing where is the yellow light flashing about water scarcity in the usa. well i think what we're seeing is we're seeing for the 1st it's important to understand that most of our water that gets consumed is going to irrigating crops irrigated agriculture and so to understand water scarcity you really want to understand where water is being used supplemental water is being used to produce crops or food and other crops use for clothing and that sort of thing what we're seeing is that because of water shortages and a warming climate and therefore greater and greater risk with water scarcity or the possibility of water shortages we're starting to see a lot of crops move from the western united states toward the east and specifically the southeast and we're also seeing more and more farmers using water supplemental water irriga