California Braces For Drought

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While Bronx and all Northeast residents have been reeling from week after week of major snowstorms, folks on the other coast are bracing for the opposite problem: a year of serious drought.

As USA Today reports,

“A foreboding is seeping across the state as Californians gaze on rain-starved reservoirs, parched pastures and arid orchards at the start of what could be the worst year of drought since the mid-1970s. Most at risk is the Golden State’s $45 billion-a-year agriculture industry, producer of nearly half of U.S.-grown fruits, nuts and vegetables. Farmers plan to plant fewer acres and some farmworkers are leaving for greener fields. Other financial effects are piling up. Ranchers are thinning cattle herds. Ski resorts have laid off workers. The state’s Forestry Department says forest fire calls were up sixfold last month from past January.”

 

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