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Look out, Arizona! California isnt the only state getting hit by drought
2015-05-11 23:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Two weeks ago, Lake Mead, which sits on the border of Nevada and Arizona, set a new record low the first time since the construction of the Hoover Dam in the 1930s that the lakes surface has dipped below 1,080 feet above sea level. The Wests drought is so bad that official plans for water rationing have now begun with Arizonas farmers first on the chopping block. Yes, despite the droughts epicenter in California, its Arizona that will bear the brunt of the Wests epic dry spell. The huge...
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Bottled Water Companies vs. Californias Epic Drought
2015-05-11 17:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: As the drought in California rolls into its fourth year, causing mandatory water cutbacks by cities and private citizens and concern about the states enormous agricultural sector, bottled water plants in the state are attracting increasing attention attention and controversy. Bottled water accounts for a tiny fraction of the water consumed in the state but its become something of a symbol of who gets access to water for profit and who is being forced to cut back. Last week, Starbucks announced...
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California drought in pictures: US state running out water
2015-05-11 16:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: As California's catastrophic drought enters its fourth year, California water regulators adopted sweeping, unprecedented restrictions on how people, governments and businesses can use water amid the state's ongoing drought, hoping to push reluctant residents to deeper conservation. Reservoir banks that used to be underwater are seen at Millerton Lake, on the top of the Friant Dam in Friant, California. California's snowpack, which generally provides about a third of the state's water, is at its...
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Taiwan aims to rein in water use amid unusual drought
2015-05-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: As a subtropical Pacific island, Taiwan normally gets a generous 98 inches of rain a year, keeping water prices so low that people seldom think twice about taking a long hot shower, let alone flushing the toilet. But that relaxed relationship with water has dried up since February as Pacific Ocean temperatures have locked Taiwan into one of its most severe droughts in decades, prompting rationing last month in areas of the heavily populated west coast. In two cities and a county in northern Taiwan,...
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Drought spinoff: Dead orchards may go up in smoke
2015-05-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fresno Bee: In the wake of the drought, many orchards now dead wood Open-field burning may increase as biomass plants close AB 590 would keep biomass plants going with millions of state dollars In drought-wounded Terra Bella, Kent Duysen says he has seen the plumes of smoke recently farm-waste burning linked to both the devastating dry time and a faltering biomass energy industry. The San Joaquin Valleys tainted air might be getting an extra dose of soot and ozone-forming gases this spring as...
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