Bear, mountain lions, deer and elk are searching for water in residential areas, because there is none in the wild.
However, one group of volunteers is trying to help by delivering thousands of gallons of water to wildlife in need.
Filling and maintaining these water catchments are volunteers from the Arizona Elk Society.
Every day, they have been hauling water down these Forest Service roads to hundreds of catchments, one of which is located near Flagstaff.
"The U.S. Forest Service has about 1,500 little drinkers, little water catchments," said Clark.
"Elk drink about six to eight gallons a day," said Clark.
"This particular year is one of the worst," said Michael Anderson, team leader for Wildlife for Water.
Your elks are drinking all our water,’" said Clark.
"So we help the ranchers because they are our partners in wildlife conservation."
All of the money they use to deliver water and maintain catchments comes from donations or grants from the Forest Service and Arizona Game and Fish.

Sir, – I have just returned from the Lombardy and Veneto areas of Northern Italy, where temperatures were between 30 and 40 Celsius, and where crops and gardens were being watered daily.
So why in our Emerald Isle, where we’ve had copious amounts of rain for most of the year, and have only a fraction of the population of those combined areas, do we have a hosepipe ban?
Monkstown, Sir, – It seems the large Papal Cross in the Phoenix Park is getting power-cleaned with water sprayed from a cherry picker (Ultan Ó Broin, July 5th).
So is holy water exempt from the ban on excessive usage?
Or are certain monuments just being “cherry picked”?
Leopardstown, Dublin 18.
Sir, – I find myself wondering at the selfish mentality of people washing their cars in a time when we have been specifically asked to conserve our water.
For once, I cannot help thinking that it is not Irish Water that is to blame here.
It is us, as a nation.
Clearly, we should be paying water charges.

Fire fighters rescue baby fawn from blaze in Slieve Bloom Mountains as gorse fires burn Irish Water’s hosepipe ban is to be extended nationwide on Friday with fewer than 20 domestic users having been reported for water misuse since the measure came into force in the greater Dublin region on Monday.
The utility called on commercial entities to be “mindful” of water usage as the State remains in a period of “absolute drought” and with no rain forecast for the next 10 days.
No rainfall has been recorded at 24 of Met Éireann’s 25 weather stations during the last two weeks.
The dry weather has prompted Irish Water to extend its hosepipe ban nationwide from 8am on Friday.
Irish Water warned the ban would likely remain in place until at least July 31st.
“We have seen a reduction in demand and we would like to see that continue over the coming weeks,” she said.
“The water conservation order relates to domestic customers only but again we will continue to review this in conjunction with reviewing the weather situation in the coming days and weeks.” Irish Water also said it was making two tanker trips per day to Inis Oirr off the west coast as the volume of visitors meant the population was increasing on summer weekends from the usual 150 to some 2,000.
Coillte said fires were tackled on Thursday in the Slieve Bloom Mountains in Laois/Offaly, where a large area was burned after a blaze spread into a forest from open moorland.
It dropped approximately 300,000 litres of water using specialised equipment.
On average, five people drown in Ireland every fortnight and the risks increase during July and August.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Water levels at New Mexico’s largest reservoir are dropping and more rivers around the state are being reduced to a trickle as residents, farmers and water managers anxiously await the start of summer rains that could offer some short-term relief to the dry conditions.
The federal drought map released Thursday shows every square mile of New Mexico is dealing with some form of drought as neighboring states across the American Southwest are faring just as poorly.
Forecasters with the National Weather Service in Albuquerque said Thursday the most noticeable increase in the coverage of showers and thunderstorms so far this season is expected through the weekend.
Park authorities say they may have to close areas where visitors typically boat because of the lower water levels.
Agency spokeswoman Mary Carlson said the bureau is doing what it can to keep the Rio Grande wet in the Albuquerque reach.
But between leases from the previous year and what was secured this year, there’s not much left and managers are trying to stretch it until the rains arrive.
"We live in the desert and people are just so passionate about the little bit of water that we have," Carlson said.
In northwestern New Mexico, the flow of the Animas River at Farmington registered last week as zero.
The city of Farmington has imposed mandatory watering restrictions due to the drought as voluntary restrictions are in place in many other communities around the state.
This time last year, less than a quarter of the state was dealing with only abnormally dry conditions.

Hotter-than-normal temperatures and persistent dry conditions led to an uptick in moderate to severe drought across eastern Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and eastern Oklahoma, according to the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that 30% of continental U.S. (CONUS) and 66.4 million people are now being impacted by moderate drought or worse.
Extreme (D3) and Exceptional (D4) drought are affecting substantial areas of western Oklahoma, eastern Kansas, Texas, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico and southern California.
Severe (D2) drought is present in eastern Oregon, southern California, Kansas, Utah, Texas, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, northern Missouri, southern Iowa, southern Arkansas, northern Louisiana, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Temperatures since October across the region have been well above normal: either top 10% or warmest on record since 1895.
Most of the region has received well-below-normal precipitation and some areas have been the driest on record since 1895.
He said beef cow slaughter in Region 6 is 10.4% higher than last year during the same period (through early June), with 14% more cows slaughtered since early April than in 2017.
Region 7, which includes both relatively dry Missouri and Kansas as well as Iowa and Nebraska, where timely rains have fallen, has seen beef cow slaughter up 6.7% year to date, and 8.8% in recent weeks, Brown noted.
“While it is still not clear whether the early spring cold temperatures and subsequent dry weather in portions of the country will be enough to result in a shrinking beef cow herd for the year, it is certain that poor pasture quality is taking a toll on many producers,” Brown said.
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Farmers are now working 14 hours a day to be broke, according to North Clare dairy farmer Pat O’Donoghue.
Mr O’Donoghue, who runs a 48 strong dairy herd near Ennistymon, said many farmers’ first cut of silage, which was meant to supply fodder for the winter, is now gone because of the poor grass growth caused by the drought.
He described pasture and grazing ground as being ‘toasted’ because of the heat and said the quality of milk is also suffering with poor grazing resulting in a drop in protein and butter fat content.
He said Glanbia is now importing Alfalfa from Spain to supplement feed for farmers, and he predicated as chaotic autumn and winter fodder crisis because of the implications of the current drought.
Water tankers have been brought in to Fanore and Ballyvaughan where water outages have occurred for the past three days.
Irish water said they are on the extremity of the network of a large rural group scheme served from Ennistymon water treatment plant and therefore they have been worst affected by reservoir levels falling.
Night time restrictions have been put in place in areas along the network between Ennistymon, Lahinch, Lisdoonvarna and Finnor to allow the reservoir to recharge.

IGLAS, India, July 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Khuba Chand increasingly finds himself alone in Iglas, a drought-parched village in the Bundelkhand region of India’s Madhya Pradesh state.
As ever-lengthening drought becomes the new normal, Bundelkhand, a parched region split between India’s Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh states, is clearing out.
In Chand’s village, in Tikamgarh district, only a quarter of the 70 farmers working there 10 years ago now remain.
India’s government runs a national employment guarantee scheme under which those in need of work in rural areas can be paid for 100 days of it each year.
The Madhya Pradesh government announced last year, for instance, that it would no longer include work to de-silt and deepen water ponds as part of employment under the job scheme.
Some drought-hit families in Madhya Pradesh who relied on that work now have lost it, they say.
“The rivers flow when there is good rainfall during the monsoon season.
But the measures have not been enough to stop large-scale migration of rural villagers to urban areas.
The Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan also in January announced a $20 million relief package for farmers in drought-hit areas, including supplies of drinking water and fodder for animals.
The India Meteorological Department has said there is low probability that 2018 will be a drought year.

Irish Water extends hosepipe ban to rest of country as heatwave continues The vast majority of the country officially enters a state of “absolute drought” today with no rainfall recorded at 24 out of 25 weather stations during the last two weeks.
The extreme weather conditions have prompted Irish Water to expand a hosepipe ban from the Greater Dublin Area to the whole country from Friday morning.
From 8am on Friday the use of hoses in nearly all circumstances will be banned across the country.
On average, demand across all water resources nationally has increased by 15 per cent, a level Irish Water said “cannot be sustained for any period of time”.
An absolute drought is defined as 15 or more consecutive days of less than 0.2mm of rainfall.
The average top temperatures will be around 27 or 28 degrees.
Humidity levels will remain low meaning the heat will not be clammy or sticky, he said.
Households ignoring the ban can be fined €125, and prosecuted if they fail to pay the fine.
Yesterday parents were told to take “extreme care” in protecting their children from the sun’s harmful rays during the heatwave.
The Marie Keating Foundation cancer support group said infants and children should be kept out of the sun between 11am and 3pm and factor 50 sunscreen should be applied every two hours.

Met Éireann has warned of worsening drought conditions as fire fighters battle a major gorse fire on the Slieve Bloom Mountains in Laois and Offaly.
Laois and Offaly fire fighters have been battling the blaze with the help of staff from Coillte since yesterday.
A helicopter was deployed to drop water from a nearby lake.
Coillte has said that it is fighting a number of fires nationwide, and it urged the public to be extra vigilant towards the dangers of wildfires.
Temperatures are expected to rise to mid-to-high 20s from Saturday onwards.
Met Éireann’s Evelyn Cusack says the warm weather will continue into next week pic.twitter.com/3LKC0vS20Z — RTÉ News (@rtenews) July 5, 2018 It comes after Irish Water announced a nationwide hosepipe ban will come into effect from 8am tomorrow and will remain in place until midnight on 31 July.
Despite efforts to conserve water during the continuing hot spell, Lidl says that its 7,500 litre swimming pools have sold out due to "unprecedented" demand.
The pools went on sale this morning despite calls for the store to pull the pools from sale to help conserve water during the drought.
The call was made prior to the announcement of the national hosepipe ban.
Read: What is prohibited during the hosepipe ban?

The unseasonably warm summer weather in Denmark has undoubtedly been a pleasant surprise for many, but not everyone is equally enthused about its effects.
The current drought is the worst in the country in over two decades, and has resulted in farmers asking the government for help, reports Landbrugsavisen.
The agricultural organisation Landbrug & Fødevare is seeking help in the form of bringing forward agricultural subsidies rather than dipping into taxpayer’s money.
The subsidies are usually paid out in December, but the organisation believes there is no reason why they can’t be paid out earlier.
More water Martin Merrild, head of Landbrug & Fødevare, emphasised that the organistion is not just out for additional public money.
“We’re not here standing cap-in-hand; we would rather get help so we can help ourselves,” he said.
The organisation has also asked permission from the municipalities to be able to use more water for irrigation than is usually permitted.
Record number of wildfires The issues faced by the agricultural sector are not the only problems that have emerged due to the drought.
Since May, there have been over 800 reported wildfires which is significantly higher than the average of 375 during the period 2013-2017, reports DR Nyheder.
This is despite the ban on open fires now in effect across the entire country, which resulted in bonfires being banned on Skt Hans Eve.