This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Two high-profile water crises , juiced up by climate change and industrial overuse , are building in the U.S. From a city in Texas staring down a drought emergency to a decades-long political crisis coming to a head for the states that rely on the Colorado River, water issues in the West will take center stage this summer — and experts tell WIRED that other places should take notes and start planning ahead for their own future.

In February, following a winter of record-breaking heat, snowpack in various mountain ranges across the American West reached record lows.…