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Drought emergency expanded The U.S. Drought Monitor shows most of California and the American West is in extensive drought just a few years after the state emerged from the last punishing multiyear dry spell Author: May 11, 2021 In this March 5, 2020, file photo, Hunter Maltz, a fish technician for the Yurok tribe, pushes a jet boat into the low water of the Klamath River at the confluence of the Klamath River and Blue Creek as Keith Parker, as a Yurok tribal fisheries biologist, watches near Klamath, Calif., in Humboldt County. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus, File) The U.S. Drought Monitor shows most of California and the American West is in extensive drought just a few years after the state emerged from the last punishing multiyear dry spell ....
California Drought Emergency Expanded to Large Swath Of State California Gov. Gavin Newsom this week expanded a drought emergency to a large swath of the nation’s most populous state while seeking more than $6 billion in multiyear water spending as one of the warmest, driest springs on record threatens another severe wildfire season across the American West. The Democratic governor said he is acting amid “acute water supply shortages” in northern and central parts of California as he called again for voluntary conservation. Yet the state is in relatively better shape than it was when the last five-year drought ended in 2017, he said, as good habits have led to a 16% reduction in water usage. ....