RSS Feed
FiveThirtyEight: Last week, California’s dry spell got a temporary reprieve thanks to an onslaught of Pacific storms. But the storms won’t be enough to turn back the state’s drought - one that, researchers say, is the region’s worst in the last 1,200 years.
California’s drought began in late 2011 and rapidly intensified. Reservoirs stand empty, and as of this month, the U.S. Drought Monitor has classified conditions in 79.7 percent of the state as being in “extreme” or “exceptional” drought.
To compare the......
Read Complete Article at Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS News Feed
We could see more and more ‘hot droughts’ like California’s
Posted by FiveThirtyEight: Christie Aschwanden on December 15th, 2014
Posted in Water Conservation