Results tagged “snowpack”

It was brought up earlier this year and once again this week. If rain and snowpack levels stay down, water sent to regions in California will be considerably less--as little as 15% of allocations--than usual. "Last spring was the driest since 1921 in the northern Sierra," the LA Times said as well as noting that "reservoirs are starting the rainy season at their lowest levels since 1977." In June, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a statewide water drought.

Yesterday at a press conference with Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard regarding the renewal of a Sister City relationship, Mayor Villaraigosa went off topic, but with good reason: water woes could be ahead, according to the Daily News. With the fires, extreme water drought and light snowpack this year, water is tight. Earlier this summer, the mayor made a call for the public to voluntarily reduce water use, hoping for a 10% decrease (even...