A section of the Central Arizona Project, a series of aqueducts and tunnels designed to bring water from the Colorado River to Arizona, runs through a subdivision in Gilbert, Arizona. | Rebecca Noble/Bloomberg/Getty Images This story was originally published by Inside Climate News  and is reproduced here as part of the  Climate Desk  collaboration. Officials were already  sounding the alarm bells  in early March across the Western United States after a winter with historically low snowpacks, which supplies water for communities as it slowly melts throughout the spring and summer.  Then came the heat wave.  As  I reported last week , a high-pressure system brought early-season heat to the region, breaking temperature records in many states with  help from climate change .…