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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.
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The West is the driest it s ben in 1,200 years - raising questions about a livable future
Water is increasingly scarce in the Western U.S. where 72 percent of the region is in severe drought, 26 percent is in exceptional drought, and populations are booming.Sign up for our Newsletters
Insufficient monsoon rains last summer and low snowpacks over the winter left states like Arizona, Utah and Nevada without the typical amount of water they need, and forecasts for the rainy summer season don t show promise.
This year s aridity is happening against the backdrop of a 20-year-long drought. The past two decades have been the driest or the second driest in the last 1,200 years in the West, posing existential questions about how to secure a livable future in the region.