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.

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona water officials committed Thursday to reach a multi-state plan by the end of the year to stave off Colorado River water shortages, or at least lessen the impact.
The amount of water that gets sent to the lower basin states — Arizona, Nevada and California — and Mexico depends on Lake Mead, the reservoir formed by Hoover Dam.
The Arizona Department of Water Resources and the Central Arizona Project said they would form a committee to work out the details of a drought plan among Arizona water users and present it to the Legislature in January.
Ted Cooke, the general manager of the Central Arizona Project, said the key elements in Arizona are reaching agreement on how to handle any excess water, a program to allow tribes to store water behind Lake Mead, a mitigation plan for central Arizona farmers who would lose water under shortages and a water conservation plan.
The drought contingency plan is meant as an overlay to 2007 guidelines on what levels would trigger shortages and where they would be felt.
Mexico also has agreed to cutbacks.
The plan also gives states flexibility on how to help prop up Lake Mead and an opportunity to recover the water if the lake rises above certain levels.
Burman said other states would pressure her agency to limit Arizona’s water deliveries if it doesn’t agree on the drought plan.
Chris Harris, executive director of the Colorado River Board of California, said California agencies still are working out details of the drought contingency plan and keeping an eye on Arizona with "interest and cautious optimism."
___ Associated Press journalist Ken Ritter in Las Vegas contributed to this report.

Arizona is renewing a focus on a drought contingency plan for the shrinking supply of Colorado River water, and other Western states are paying close attention.
An Arizona utility was accused earlier this year of manipulating the system that governs water allocations.
The Central Arizona Project has since pledged to be more cooperative with other river users, more respectful and more transparent.
The agency has been prodding Colorado River states to wrap up drought contingency plans by the end of the year, one each in the lower and upper basins.
The amount of water that gets sent to the lower basin states — Arizona, Nevada and California — and Mexico depends on Lake Mead, the reservoir formed by Hoover Dam.
Shortages would be triggered if the man-made reservoir on the Arizona-Nevada border dips to 1,075 feet (328 meters) above sea level.
Mexico wouldn’t conserve more water if the lower basin states don’t finalize a plan, said Chris Harris, executive director of the Colorado River Board of California.
"That creates this real uncertainty," said John Fleck, director of the University of New Mexico’s Water Resources Program.
Harris said California agencies are still working out the details but said Burman’s participation in the Arizona meeting is a step in the right direction.
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PHOENIX — Even if Arizona sees an exceptionally heavy monsoon season this summer, that will not end the long-term drought in the state, one expert said.
Randy Cerveny, a climatologist with Arizona State University, said the state is coming off one of its driest winters in years and that it would take several big winters in a row — along with strong monsoon seasons — to end the drought.
“We’ve been in a drought really since the start of this century,” he told KTAR News 92.3 FM.
“It’s been a really dry period, particularly in terms of the winters.” Cerveny said the southwest has seen several “mega droughts” in the past that lasted more than a century and there is no guarantee that the state is not in another one right now.
“Most scientists are agreeing that the drought started right around the turn of the century, maybe a couple years earlier,” he added.
But that does not mean that there’s not good news for residents: Satellite images have shown that storms forming in Mexico are slowly inching their way north.
“The thing to be watching for in regard to monsoon is what’s going down in Mexico,” Cerveny said.
“If you notice from the satellite photos…you’ll start to see that there are more big thunderstorms that are starting to build up down in Mexico and everyday they are starting to inch up a little bit closer,” he added.
“That’s a sign that the monsoonal moisture is getting a little bit closer and eventually will get up here.” And for those who are anxiously awaiting the first big monsoon storm of the season, no worries: Cerveny said the state will start to see more monsoons over the next couple of weeks.
KTAR News 92.3 FM’s Jim Cross contributed to this report.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The Arizona Game and Fish Department is boosting efforts to refill water tanks for wildlife in the midst of drought.
The agency typically hauls about 400,000 gallons (1.5 million liters) of water to tanks statewide in a normal year, the Arizona Daily Sun reported.
But this year is exceptionally dry, and department officials say that figure will rise to 1.5 million gallons (5.7 million liters).
The agency began supplementing the catchments in November, which hasn’t happened in at least 20 years, according to agency officials.
Mike Anderson and a few other volunteers with the Arizona Elk Society have hauled about 100,000 gallons (378,530 liters) to 78 water catchments since February just in the Flagstaff area, he said.
The nonprofit has an agreement with Game and Fish to maintain water levels at certain tanks so the department can focus its efforts elsewhere.
“Our goal is to have available water no greater than 2 to 3 miles apart,” said Tom Mackin, with the Coconino Sportsmen, who is also helping with water hauling.
The catchments often use some mechanism like tin sheeting to catch rain and snowmelt from a large area then funnel it into storage tanks that feed into a drinking pool or container.
The water drinkers are located strategically in areas that are known to be frequented by wildlife and are monitored by wildlife managers with the department, said Shelly Shepherd, with Game and Fish.
Elk, pronghorn, mule deer, javelina, turkeys, rabbits, birds and even bees are among the animals that take advantage of the water sources, Mackin said.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The Arizona Game and Fish Department is boosting efforts to refill water tanks for wildlife in the midst of drought.
The agency typically hauls about 400,000 gallons (1.5 million liters) of water to tanks statewide in a normal year, the Arizona Daily Sun reported .
But this year is exceptionally dry, and department officials say that figure will rise to 1.5 million gallons (5.7 million liters).
The agency began supplementing the catchments in November, which hasn’t happened in at least 20 years, according to agency officials.
Mike Anderson and a few other volunteers with the Arizona Elk Society have hauled about 100,000 gallons (378,530 liters) to 78 water catchments since February just in the Flagstaff area, he said.
The nonprofit has an agreement with Game and Fish to maintain water levels at certain tanks so the department can focus its efforts elsewhere.
"Our goal is to have available water no greater than 2 to 3 miles apart," said Tom Mackin, with the Coconino Sportsmen, who is also helping with water hauling.
The catchments often use some mechanism like tin sheeting to catch rain and snowmelt from a large area then funnel it into storage tanks that feed into a drinking pool or container.
The water drinkers are located strategically in areas that are known to be frequented by wildlife and are monitored by wildlife managers with the department, said Shelly Shepherd, with Game and Fish.
Elk, pronghorn, mule deer, javelina, turkeys, rabbits, birds and even bees are among the animals that take advantage of the water sources, Mackin said.

Arizona’s drought is pushing the Salt River wild horses close to starvation.
One organization is jumping in to bring food to those animals.
The need to feed wild horses due to drought in Arizona is almost unprecedented.
That’s according to Simone Netherlands with Salt River Wild Horse Management.
She said hay will be supplied to horses that lack food, but it won’t be easy.
"It’s very hard to grow hay right now,” Netherlands said.
“It takes a lot of water, so you know hay prices are high and plus we have to use weed free certified hay, so that adds a little bit to the price as well.” Netherlands said because hay isn’t cheap and man-made feeding can’t continue forever, donations are also being accepted.
Because wild horses are self-sufficient animals, Netherlands said they have to be fed carefully.
"You don’t want them thinking that their food comes from people,” she said.
“So we’re doing that strategically, so that it does not pain them.” Netherlands said her team distributes hay to a dozen feed stations along the river and they’re starting to see improvement among mares in poor condition.

(File photo by Joshua Bowling/Cronkite News) PHOENIX – Water managers in Arizona again are trying to strike a deal that would help prepare the state for future cuts to its water supply if Lake Mead drops below specific levels, which could come as early as 2020.
And as Arizona tries again, the six other states in the vast Colorado River Basin – Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California, Wyoming and New Mexico – are watching intently.
In 2017, the United States and Mexico agreed to a new strategy that would lead to increased savings of water by Mexico, but that agreement will only go into effect if Arizona, California and Nevada finalize internal agreements that will allow its agencies to join the drought plan for the Lower Basin.
Doug Ducey held a series of water meetings last year that ended in a stalemate between the Arizona Department of Water Resources and the Central Arizona Project, which pumps Colorado River water to Phoenix and Tucson.
Progress on Arizona’s drought plan had stalled.
“On the one hand, I don’t want to say that the only reason that Tom and I are (embarking on) this initiative is because we’ve been pressured to do so by folks,” Cooke said of the renewed effort to finish the plan.
“On the other hand, I don’t want to say it’s a complete coincidence of timing.” Buschatzke said having Burman kick off a public process will remind people that Arizona has been better off when it avoided lawsuits.
Eyes on Arizona Fights and litigation would only delay a coordinated response to rising temperatures and falling water levels in Lakes Mead and Powell, the largest reservoirs on the Colorado.
“It puts pressure on Denver Water as a municipal utility, taking water out of the Colorado River,” he said, “and it exacerbates historic animosities and relationships between western Colorado and Denver Water.” Lochhead sent a letter to the CAP in April threatening to pull out of a program to conserve water unless the Lower Basin made real progress on its drought plan.
Arizona issues But before it can sign a Lower Basin plan, Arizona needs its own deal.

Nearly 40 percent of the homes in the Navajo Nation lack running water or sanitation, and many are in such remote areas that they will never be able to connect to a water line.
Fred de Sam Lazaro: Darlene Arviso’s truck route takes her to some of the most remote and isolated people in America.
Darlene Arviso: The kids would be yelling, running to the water truck when I’m coming up to their house.
Fred de Sam Lazaro: She’s known as the Water Lady in a region where 40 percent of residents have no access to running water.
Fred de Sam Lazaro: A few miles away, Arviso has a new customer.
Fred de Sam Lazaro: What they gave up are two of life’s most basic amenities, electricity and running water.
Fred de Sam Lazaro: Due to a long waiting list, getting connected to the main water line could take up to 15 years, and it will cost more than $12,000.
Although Bicenti works full-time, piped-in water is a luxury she cannot afford.
Fred de Sam Lazaro: George McGraw founded a group called DigDeep that used to work on water projects in Africa, but is now directing its efforts to help some of two million people in this country, like the Bicenti family, who lack access to clean water and sanitation.
George McGraw: A lack of clean water in the United States does exactly the same thing to families it does around the world.

With no relief in sight, farmers and ranchers are having to find ways to deal with it.
“There are other ranchers in Arizona that will move their cattle completely out of Arizona to other states to be fed,” Smallhouse said.
Arizona is facing its 21st year of a long-term drought, according to the Arizona State Climate Office.
Several reservoirs, such as Lakes Mead and Powell, provide water supply to the state during dry years.
But with drought conditions continuing to get worse, water is getting harder to come by.
As a result, they’re having to decide if they’re going to plant in certain fields and what crops they can grow.
“That’s really what’s going to be a problem in this planting season for farmers.
“We have some relief now and again in the last few years.
We’ve had a couple of wet years, which is helpful,” she said.
“But in the long-term, I think ranchers and farmers are just trying to plan for the ups and downs.”