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Now Utah is also being considered a casualty of the drought, as Gov. Spencer Cox (R-Ut.) asked his continents to pray for water during a wildfire on Bennion Creek, although it does not look like rain will be in the forecast for some time this summer.
This year is set to be the worst drought in the West since 1977, Ernest Conant, Director of the Mid-Pacific Region of the Bureau of Reclamation, told NBC News. Before that, the second driest year took place 1,200 years ago.
The unfortunate news is that Las Vegas already was preparing for a drought of this magnitude for the past 20 years, but its effort was not good enough.