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Fifty-one percent of Colorado is now free from all levels of drought and abnormally dry conditions.

Compared to a week prior, Lubbock Countys conditions improved from moderate drought to abnormally dry for most of the county

CM YS Jagan Reviews AP Irrigation Projects May 28, 2021, 17:43 IST AMARAVATI: Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy held a review meeting on the progress of Polavaram works and other priority irrigation projects at camp office here on Friday.  Polavaram Project Explaining the progress of works of Polavaram project to the Chief Minister, the officials said 91 percent of spillway concrete works were completed and the remaining works will be done by June 15. They said 42 radial gates are ere...

While western Colorado continues to suffer under extreme and exceptional drought conditions, the eastern part of the state continues to see substantial improvements.

Published Sunday, May 2, 2021 by Chris Sorensen One week after Colorado saw the first drought-free area in the state since mid-2020, drought worsened for part of the state according to the latest report from the National Drought Mitigation Center. The change came in northwest Colorado, where much of Rio Blanco County, and smaller areas in Moffat and Garfield counties slipped from extreme drought into exceptional conditions. Recent higher temperatures - occasionally reaching 80 degrees - along w...

Prof. Mthuli Ncube Zimbabwe’s economy has been through the worst of sorting out the fiscal and monetary problems inherited by the Second Republic and Government is now working on ensuring strong growth from this year, riding on achievements recorded under the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) and the growth measures enunciated in the National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1).  Further, measures to cushion civil servants and vulnerable groups of society will be widened this year, despit...