PRICE, Utah — Kevin Cotner is familiar with the dreaded term "curtailment."

The Price-area hay farmer experiences it naturally as a result of the ongoing drought.

"The water's just not here," Cotner told FOX 13 News in an interview on Thursday.

He has volunteered to fallow some of his farms through a program administered by the Colorado River Authority of Utah . Since he lives along a tributary, he's being compensated to not grow crops on some fields for a couple of years.

"To us, it’s a way to help, maybe, and get compensated," Cotner explained.

With a deadline quickly approaching to have a deal governing the Colorado River — which supplies water to more than 40 million people across seven states in the West — the Utah State Engineer's Office is now floating worst-case scenarios th

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