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Calif Fourth Year Of Drought, New Regulations & $1 Billion In Relief
2015-03-22 22:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Winter is coming to an end here in California. And you would barely notice it ever happened. This January was the driest on record since the state started keeping records in 1895. That means we are entering year four of a major drought with no relief in sight. This week, California's governor, Jerry Brown, announced plans for a $1 billion drought-relief package. And state water officials introduced water-saving measures for homes and businesses. Molly Peterson has reported extensively...
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Raley's fights drought with low-water soaps
2015-03-21 09:01:46| Grocery - Topix.net
Raley's said it has become the first supermarket chain in the United States to use a new line of soaps that the company said require much less water. "We've been testing for over a year and we've had a couple different generations come through," said Toni Hofer, Raley's food safety manager.
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As lakes become deserts, drought is Iran's new problem
2015-03-21 07:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Nazar Sarani's village in southeast Iran was once an island. It is now a desert, a casualty of the country's worsening water crisis. "We live in the dust," said the 54-year-old cattle herder of his home in the once exceptional biosphere of Lake Hamoun, a wetland of varied flora and fauna, which is now nothing but sand-baked earth. Climate change, with less rainfall each year, is blamed, but so too is human error and government mismanagement. Iran's reservoirs are only 40 percent full according...
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Gov Jerry Brown, lawmakers to announce emergency drought bill
2015-03-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: As California braces for a fourth consecutive year of drought, Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders on Thursday will unveil a $1-billion relief plan, two sources told The Times late Wednesday. This will mark the second consecutive year in which the Legislature has had to act on emergency drought relief. In 2014, Brown signed a $687.4-million drought package, which offered aid to communities facing acute water shortages and food and housing assistance to those harmed by the drought. Brown,...
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Oregon gov declares drought emergency as snow pack levels drop
2015-03-17 21:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Oregon Governor Kate Brown declared a drought emergency on Tuesday in two rural Oregon counties, with more expected in the coming weeks, as the state suffers abnormally low snow pack levels. The declarations in Oregon come as much of the U.S. West grapples with severe drought conditions. Last week Washington state Governor Jay Inslee declared a drought emergency across three regions of that state. And California is in its fourth year of a drought that has forced sharp cutbacks in irrigation...
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