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NORTH ANDOVER — Merrimack College presented plans for building a new storage structure on campus at a recent meeting of the Planning Board.

BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- China is going all out for flood control, drought relief and disaster reduction, as heavy rainfalls have triggered flooding in part

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Us to create the renewable energy we need here and build it in the united states and not have to buy stuff from china anymore. that was a positive first step. hey, you know, this climate crisis we have and the situation we have in the west with wildfires and drought and the snowpack, you know, just evaporating instead of melting into the colorado river, its a challenge. as i said, as americans, we are really good at solving hard problems, especially engineering problems. so, im confident, jake, ...

Not just an arizona problem. >> i mean, its an existential crisis for your state and others, as i dont need to tell you. is the biden administration being too passive, too cautious? >> well, first of all, its not existential. weve got solutions. i was able to add $8 billion into the bipartisan infrastructure bill for more water storage and resiliency and settling tribal water claims. most recently in the inflation reduction act. so, we do have the tools in place. what we dont have is the partner...

Hey, you know, this climate crisis we have and the situation we have in the west with wildfires and drought and the snowpack, you know, just evaporating instead of melting into the colorado river, its a challenge. as i said, as americans, we are really good at solving hard problems, especially engineering problems. so, im confident, jake, were going to work our way through this. arizona is so important to the country. if youre eating green lettuce in the winter, it came from yuma county. we have...

Scientists also hope to get two sites in the state declared as “critical habitat” for the snail in hopes that it can one day be reintroduced to the wild.

Ultimately, the long term sustainability of water in that basin in particular is in question and i think we really need to be rethinking some pretty big picture things in the southwest. exactly what that looks like will be subject of considerable debate. >> i have to ask you about this as a california native. i read this study that you were apart of that california is due for an extreme mega flood. so here were talking about droughts and extreme heat and now were talking about massive amounts of...

That supposed mark twain quote, the worst drought in 1,200 years has water managers in seven states, 30 tribal nations and mexico fighting over every precious drop. >> but to date the states collectively have not identified and adopted specific actions of sufficient magnitude that would stabilize the system. >> that was the commissioner in charge of dams and reservoirs admitting that upper and lower basin states have failed to agree on ways to cut their water use by up to 25%. >> i think ultimat...

Industry that helps feed us all. so for more on all of this lets bring in our chief meteorologist chad myers. you know, chad, the monsoon season looks to be one of the wettest in recent years, extremely heavy rain is forecast across the the southwest, will that make any difference? >> it will. most of what were going to see this weekend will be south of lake mead, it will miss the lake mead basin and will get into basically the bay of california. we are not going to see help in the river levels....