According to Ingram, a professor of earth and planetary sciences
at Berkeley, California’s severe drought looks to be the worst drought the
region has experienced in over 500 years. It is predicted that about
forty-thousand people will run out of water within 60 to 120 days. If
conditions continue to stay dry, state officials say they will bring trucks of
drinking water to supply communities. These arid conditions have caused parched
fields, starving livestock, and smog. While Western America has been known
to lack water, officials continue to search for answers to supply water to
inhabitants and farm fields, hoping that rain will soon replenish the land.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/us/severe-drought-has-us-west-fearing-worst.html?ref=science
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