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California may be more at risk of frequent and severe droughts now than in the past, according to Safeeq Khan, a University of California Cooperative Extension specialist. More water could be stored below our feet to help even out the cycles of drought and floods, specialist says.
Liana Wolfe | May 26, 2021
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California has faced many droughts in the past, and we have always been able to manage them to some extent.
However, with climate change creating a new hydrologic regime with more precipitation falling as rain than snow and higher evaporative demand, the state may be more at risk for drought now than in years past, according to Safeeq Khan, Cooperative Extension Specialist in Water and Watershed Sciences at the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resource.
San Francisco Water Use Has Declined Since Last Drought What Else Can You Do to Conserve?
We re once again going to be having conversations this summer about water use, and hearing about ever more strict mandates coming down from counties and the state about what we use water for. But is San Francisco s household water use really the problem?
The drought is bad, and it s getting worse. A big swath of the Bay Area was just put in the exceptional drought tier last week by the U.S. Drought Monitor, and the rest of the Bay Area is in the second-worst or extreme drought category, along with about three-quarters of California.
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Crews conducting 30-acre control burn south of Oroville Airport
Smoke will be seen Monday from a control burn being conducted by CAL FIRE crews south of the Oroville Airport.
Posted: May 24, 2021 8:37 AM
Updated: May 24, 2021 10:05 AM
Posted By: Deb Anderaos
OROVILLE, Calif. – CAL FIRE crews will conduct a control burn Monday south of the Oroville Airport.
CAL FIRE, the California Department of Fish and Wildfire, and the California Department of Water Resources will burn 30 acres at the Rabe Road Shooting Range south of the Oroville Airport.
California Prepares for a Drought But Orange County Says It’s Ready
Officials throughout California are preparing for another crippling drought throughout the state but officials in Orange County say they are ready.
After two years of below-average precipitation levels, fears of devastating wildfires loom on the horizon. The ground throughout the state has become parched, threatening vegetation and daily life.
Experts are encouraging people throughout Southern California to increase water conservation efforts and take precautionary measures against the state’s devastating wildfires, which they say are likely to become worse and more frequent.
Greg Barta, a spokesperson for the Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA), told The Epoch Times that the department’s more than 1,500 firefighters now face the grim prospect of battling wildfires in the region throughout the year.