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Gov. Gavin Newsom expanded the drought emergency to more California counties, including Bay Area’s Alameda, Contra Costa and Solano counties.

The Hoover Dam on the mighty Colorado River is the heart of the storage system for a freshwater lifeline, Southern California’s single largest and most reliable for nearly a century, but now we are seeing the culmination of decades of western drought — dropping Lake Mead reserves to a historic low. Patrick Healy reports for NBC4 News at 5 p.m....

Democrats in the California Senate have proposed $3.4 billion in new spending to combat the state’s drought

The latest U.S. Drought Monitor update released Thursday shows nearly all of California is in some stage of drought as the state braces for dry and hot summer.

Drought conditions now cover 85% of Mexico

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday an initiative to support vulnerable communities affected by severe drought. In addition, drought emergency was declared in Mendocino and Sonoma counties.

Las Vegas water officials want the region to become a model for conservation with a first-in-the-nation policy banning grass that nobody walks on

Rainstorms grew more erratic and droughts much longer across most of the U.S. West over the past half-century as climate change warmed the planet

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Thursday’s release of the current drought monitor showed significant upgrades to drought severity across California, including the Sierra, Central Coast and into Southern California.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting a warmer, drier winter for the southern tier of the U.S., including Southern California. La Nina has a lot to do with it.

Spring storms that included five consecutive days of soaking rain last week knocked out drought conditions in Southern California, according to this week’s U.S. Drought Monitor report. Late March and early April storms, including the system that rotated over SoCal throughout last week, provided a dramatic turnaround following a dry start to 2020. It meant a much-improved outlook for...

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February is shaping up to be one of the driest on record for much of California, where there is mounting concern over a dismally dry winter. In Southern California, one of the region’s historically wettest months is on pace to finish with just .04 inches of rain. That leaves February 2020 tied for the 10th driest February on record. Add…

Hector Muñoz owns a coffee farm in San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, and hurricanes aren’t the only natural disasters he’s worried about. “If a drought comes it could be catastrophic,” he said. He has reason to be concerned. Powerful El Niños are expected over the next decade and they typically bring drought conditions. Adding to the challenge is the possible impact...