Tag: drought

Wet winter helping California recover

We’ve posted a few times about the severity of the drought in the Western states – in particular, California. Here’s good news, for a change – the water level in some of the state’s reservoirs is starting to return to normal. A recent article on KQED Science features interactive pictures of three reservoirs that have…

Brown is the new green — really!

As summer draws to a close, we’re under a drought watch in Lehigh and Northampton counties. While there currently are no water restrictions, voluntarily cutting back your water use would be helpful. One of the best ways to do that, especially this time of year, is to stop watering your lawn. While many people think…

Drought-busting lessons from the Land Down Under

Spring is coming, which means summer is also around the corner. And with summer comes worries about drought. We were lucky last year, but western states didn’t fare as well. Still, things could be much worse.  California’s drought, for instance, is serious, but it’s nothing compared to Southern Australia’s “Millennium Drought,” which lasted 13 years….

Hey, hey, hay — and a dwindling water supply

If you look at a drought map for the western United States, you’ll see that conditions there are, in a word, grim. In Arizona, much of the state has been experiencing a moderate drought, with some sections suffering under extreme drought, severe drought or abnormally dry conditions. And now the region is facing a new…

U.S. could be headed for far-reaching megadrought

A Washington Post story reports that the drought that’s been gripping the southwest is relatively minor compared with what could be coming down the pike. According to the article, a study by researchers from NASA, Cornell and Columbia universities states that “there is an 80 percent chance” that an extended drought called a megadrought “will strike…

Scientists: California drought is worst in 1,200 years

If there were any doubts about the severity of this year’s drought in California, it appears two climate scientists just put them to rest. According to an article from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Daniel Griffin of the University of Minnesota and Kevin Anchukaitis of Woods Hole say their research shows it’s the state’s worst drought…

In California, brown is the new green

We’ve written several times about the problems posed by watering a lawn as the heat increases and the summer wanes.   In California, the Santa Clara Valley Water District is taking it a step further. They’ve just introduced a new campaign called “Brown is the New Green.” The goal, organizers say, is to persuade residents “to…

Lake Meade levels paint a frightening picture

We’ve experienced drought in the Lehigh Valley: crops have shriveled, lawns turned brown, sometimes wells even went dry. But the drought in the Southwest is like nothing we’ve seen here; at least not in our lifetimes. They’ve had 14 years of a dry so severe it’s left Lake Meade – the largest reservoir in the…

One woman’s inspiring quest for clean water

For most of us, access to clean water is something we don’t need to think about. Turn on the tap, and out it flows. It’s something we take for granted until there’s a power failure or water main break. In many places around the world, though, people aren’t so lucky. Drought, infrastructure problems and a…

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