30 CARS, MOTORCYCLES, AND $40,000 WORTH OF STOLEN PROPERTY. >>> THE DROUGHT HERE IN CALIFORNIA IS GETTING WORE BY THE WEEK. TURNS OUT, COMPARED WITH ABOUT 40% LAST WEEK. THE CONDITIONS ARE TAKING A TOLL ON CALIFORNIA'S RICE CROPS BUT THOSE RICE CROPS DO REQUIRE ABOUT FIVE FEET OF WATER A YEAR IN OTHER OUR SEMI--DESERT STATE. EXPERTS SAY 80% WILL NOT BE PLANTED THIS YEAR. THAT IS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ACRES. FARMERS SOUTH OF THE DELTA SAY IT IS BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT GETTING ANY WATER FROM LAKE SHASTA. >> THEY ARE NOT LETLINGING ANYBODY USE WATER. THESE SMALL TOWNS DEPEND ON THE WATER AND WITHOUT ALG CULTURE, IT IS A DEPOSIT TOWN. >> LAKE SHASTA IS BELOW 50% CAPACITY, AT A HISTORIC LOW. CBS REPORTER BEN TRACY SHOWS US HOW TWO DECADES OF OF DROUGHT IS NOW THREATENING A CRITICAL WARREN WATER SUPPLY. >> Reporter: IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE A PLACE THIS BEAUTIFUL IS ALSO A SHADOW OF ITS FORMER SELF. LAKE POWELL HAS MOSTLY BEEN ON A TEE DECLINE FOR THE PAST TWO DECADES. >> HE WANTS TO RESTORE THE CANYON FLOODED IN THE 1960s TO CREATE LAKE POWELL, THE NATION'S SECOND-LARGEST RESERVOIR. >> THIS AREA THAT WE ARE IN RIGHT NOW IS 177 FEET BELOW FULL POOL. >> AND WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME ITIT WAS THAT HIGH? >> FULL WAS IN 1999. >> THE TOP OF THAT IS WHERE THE BATTER USED TO BE. SATELLITE IMAGES SHOW THE DRAMATIC IMPACT OF THE 22-YEAR-LONG MEGA DROUGHT. THE LAKE NOW JUST 24% FULL. >> IT LOOKS LIKE WE CAN EXPECT THIS TO BE A NEW NORMAL. >> Reporter: CLIMATE CHANGE IS MAKING THE WEST HOTTER AND DRIER, THREATENING THE COLORADO RIVER SYSTEM. THE MANMADE RESERVOIRS OF LAKE POWELL IN UTAH AND LAKE MEAD IN NEVADA AND PROVIDES WATER FOR 40 MILLION PEOPLE IN SEVEN STATES. >> YOU HAD 12 RAMPS AND NOW THIS IS ALL YOU GOT? >> THIS IS ALL WE GOT. >> THEY HAVE BEEN FORCED TO SHT DOWN 11 BOAT RAMPS AND CRITICALLY-LOW LAKE LEVELS COULD SOON CAUSE THE GLEN CANYON DAM TO STOP PRODUCING HYDROPOWER FOR MORE THAN 5 MILLION PEOPLE. >> HOW UNPRECEDENTED IS WHAT IS GOING ON HER E? >> IT IS COMPLETELY UNPRECEDENTED. THIS HASN'T BEEN AT THIS LEVEL SINCE 1967. >> THAT IS WHEN GLEN CANYON WAS DROWNED, ERASING A LANDSCAPE OFTEN COMPARED TO THE GRAND CANYON. >> VERY SPECIAL PLACE. >> NOW, AS THE WATER RECEDES, THE CANYON IS BEING REBORN. >> THIS IS JUST STUNNING IN HERE. >> HE TOOK US TO WHAT IS CALLED CATHEDRAL IN THE DESERT. PARTS OF WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN SEEN FOR 60 YEARS, AND HE SHOWED US THIS NATURAL BRIDGE THAT JUST EMERGED FROM THE WATER. >> THIS BRIDGE WAS COVERED BY WATER, SO WHAT WE ARE BOATING UNDER, YOU USED TO BE ABLE TO BOAT OVER. >> USED TO BE ABLE TO BOAT OVER THE TOP OF THIS BRIDGE. >> LAKE POWELL'S REMAINING WATER SHOULD BE SENT DOWN RIVER TO PROP UP LAKE MEAD AND GLEN CANYON TURNED INTO A NATIONAL PARK. >> WE CAN'T GO ON WITH BUSINESS AS USUAL AND HOPE MORE WATER FILLS THIS RESERVOIR BECAUSE IT IS PROBABLY NOT GOING TO. >> Reporter: IF AND SO
