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Dozens of federal officials and water experts from New Mexico, Colorado and Texas gather for the Rio Grande Compact Commission's annual meeting in Santa Fe, N.M., Thursday, Mar. 20, 2014. Commissioners heard about the challenges water managers will face due to the effects of drought on the Rio Grande. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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Colorado Commissioner Dick Wolfe, right, asks a question during the Rio Grande Compact Commission's annual meeting in Santa Fe, N.M., Thursday, Mar. 20, 2014. Commissioners heard from federal experts about the challenges water managers will face due to the effects of drought on the Rio Grande. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
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In this photo taken March 15, 2014, Houston Fire Capt. William Dowling is this year's grand marshal for the 55th annual St. Patrick's parade saluting Houston's first responders in Houston. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, James Nielsen)
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The rising Grand River approaches homes on Abrigador Trail in Comstock Park, Mich. Thursday, March 20, 2014. A flood watch is in effect for the Grand River around Grand Rapids due to ice jams along the waterway. The National Weather Service reports jams are confirmed in at least two areas, with chunks of ice about 8 inches thick in places. (AP Photo/The Grand Rapids Press, Chris Clark) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT
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A measuring stick shows an unofficial height of the rising Grand River as it approaches homes on Abrigador Trail in Comstock Park, Mich., Thursday, March 20, 2014. A flood watch is in effect for the Grand River around Grand Rapids due to ice jams along the waterway. The National Weather Service reports jams are confirmed in at least two areas, with chunks of ice about 8 inches thick in places. (AP Photo/The Grand Rapids Press, Chris Clark) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT
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In this photo taken Feb. 26, 2014, are vessels in the small boat harbor in Valdez, Alaska. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in March 1989, spilling nearly 11 million gallons of crude in Prince William Sound, many fisheries were hurt by the disaster and many fishermen lost boats or homes. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
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FILE - In this Dec. 24, 2009 file photo, the tug Pathfinder is surrounded by a spill containment boom, in Prince William Sound, Alaska. It is the left of the two boats at the bottom right of photo. The Pathfinder, a 136-foot tug scouting for ice along Prince William Sound's oil shipping lanes near Valdez, Alaska, grounded on Bligh Reef. Something is holding down the herring population of Alaska's Prince William Sound. Marine scientists are tailing a possible suspect: humpback whales. Humpbacks are thriving in the waters fouled 21 years ago by the Exxon Valdez oil spill. At the time, the herring population crashed, but should have rebounded by now. Nearly 25 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill off the coast of Alaska, some damage heals, some effects linger in Prince William Sound. (AP Photo/Anchorage Daily News, Marc Lester, File) FRONTIERSMAN OUT
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FILE - In this Sept. 14, 1998 file photo, Bruce Wright, a biologist with the National Marine Fisheries Service Oil Spill Restoration Office, looks at a pink salmon as it swims up a stream at Sleepy Bay on LaTouche Island in Prince Williams Sound, Alaska. State officials say pink salmon have not yet recovered from the effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill 10 years ago. Nearly 25 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill off the coast of Alaska, some damage heals, some effects linger in Prince William Sound. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)
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Emily Boyd, 8, of Columbia, S.C. walks along the fence near the Washington Monument which is set to reopen in May, Washington, D.C., Thursday, March 20, 2014. The monument has been closed since 2011 for earthquake damage repairs. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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The Lund family from Wisconsin poses together in front of the Washington Monument, which is set to reopen in May, Washington, D.C., Thursday, March 20, 2014. The monument has been closed since 2011 for earthquake damage repairs. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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FILE - This Oct. 10, 2013 file aerial photo shows dead cattle in an area hard hit by a snowstorm that killed thousands of animals near Faith, S.D. The North Dakota Stockmen's Foundation has awarded nearly $200,000 to North Dakota and South Dakota ranchers who lost livestock in the blizzard. The foundation issued the last of its aid checks to ranchers this week with about $163,000 going to producers in North Dakota. (AP Photo/KOTA-TV, Pool, File)
