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While it’s encouraging, it’s great, the long-term trend here has been continued drought and water shortages, but there’s a chance even with a good water year that it just kind of pushes the curve out a few months and we have to continue our planning process accordingly. – Tommy Beaudreau	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Whereas La Niña is historically a ‘drought maker’ for the continental United States, El Niño is a ‘drought breaker,’ although the exact location of drought, or lack thereof, varies considerably from event to event. – Brad Rippey	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The shutdown we are seeing now is completely avoidable, decisions made during the drought deprived salmon of the water that they need to survive. By doing so, they took away our livelihood. – John McManus	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Complications in some areas include decades of over-pumping of groundwater, leading to land subsidence and decreased groundwater storage capability – you can see a couple of low well readings in the San Joaquin Valley, more realistically, there is a bit of lingering ‘groundwater drought’ in northeastern and southeastern California. – Brad Rippey	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Greenstone Management Partners is going to make millions at the expense of what Greenstone Management Partners’s going to do to our communities in the future and the precedence it’s going to set, we are in the midst of an extreme drought, our communities need Colorado River water. At some point, the state has a responsibility to protect the people that are here and to protect Colorado River water and not cater to those that are buying property for the water rights to make millions off of Colorado River water to benefit metropolitan areas. – Holly Irwin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s also kind of a little bit demeaning to blame residential use for these crises, it’s just a small sliver of the overall consumption. It’s a much bigger problem, and we really need to start bringing in these big industries that are guzzling water during this time of drought. – Amanda Starbuck	Found on CNN 1 year ago
While we’re all experiencing drought, not all drought is equal due to this 100-year-old Western water law that’s been put in place and hasn’t been changed, and that’s serving people very inequitably, but it is a system we’re dealt and working with right now – and there’s a lot we have to do to change it. – Andrea Smith	Found on CNN 1 year ago
2023 has just begun, but it is showing worrying signs in terms of extreme weather events [and] drought levels. – Giorgio Zampetti	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re accustomed to droughts here. In a normal drought year, we can still supply 80 % of the product to our customers. – Steven Sutter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’ve been tin he business since 1983. In 40 years I have n’t experienced a drought like this ever. It’s unprecedented. – Richard Richter	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We need more than one season of rain to recover. One season wo n’t get us out of this, i have n’t experienced a drought like this ever. – Richard Richter Greg Ponciano	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We’re right in the middle of rice country. The way the rice business goes is how the economy goes, three years of drought here has become the straw that broke the camel’s back. – Richard Richter Greg Ponciano	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The whole area is usually very dry and very close to drought this time of year. Now it’s soaking wet, but that risk of drought hasn’t gone away, (and) in our predictions of how climate change is going to affect New Zealand, that’s a feature that seems to be fairly robust – that Northland (north of Auckland) will get drier. – Daithi Stone	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We need more solutions beyond storage and dams, [McCarthy] lacks understanding of the real critical problems we’re experiencing around the drought and our communities. – De Anda	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is really going to help a lot with the short-term drought in Northern California, perhaps even erase short-term drought conditions, but it’s going to take a lot more to completely obviate the longer term, multi-year drought impacts. – Daniel Swain	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We haven’t seen the mega floods, but we have definitely seen hints of increasingly extreme precipitation even in the middle of what has otherwise been a period characterized by a pretty severe and persistent drought. – Daniel Swain	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The face of droughts is changing, it’s easier and easier to get into a drought – even following a really wet winter – because we just have that growing evaporative demand and hotter summers. – Daniel Swain	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We have to hope for more, hope the drought is over but… just getting this rain doesn’t mean the drought is over. We have to continue. – Caywood Farms ' Nancy Caywood	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Beyond that, we look forward to exploring policies to provide long-term solutions to pressing issues like western drought, improve access to our nation’s public lands, and more. – Rebekah Hoshiko	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Las Virgenes's not meant to be punitive, las Virgenes's meant to tell people... this drought is incredibly serious and what we need you to do is do your part. – Mike McNutt	Found on CNN 1 year ago
China's electricity demand has been incredibly flat in the past, because so much of it has come from the industry, not from households or services. Now with air conditioning becoming more common, the demand is becoming higher, at the same time, rains are becoming more errant. Heavy rains and periods of drought make hydropower much less reliable as a source of available capacity during those peaks. – Lauri Myllyvirta	Found on CNN 1 year ago
[ The ] external application of ethanol to plants would be a useful, simple and less expensive agricultural method to enhance drought tolerance in various plants. – Motoaki Seki	Found on CNN 1 year ago
[ We should ] do everything possible to ensure agricultural irrigation water and help farmers fight the drought and protect their autumn crops. – Premier Li Keqiang	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There's a number of crops that are really struggling due to either lack of rainfall, like the potato crop here relies on rainfall, they don't usually take water from anywhere else to irrigate the fields. And even some of the other crops that do take water from from rivers, for example, to irrigate fields, they're really struggling at the moment, even in current conditions, yields are going to be down for a number of crops and the price of these things are going to go up, and obviously that's due to drought here in The UK. But there's other things going on across Europe. – Liz Bentley	Found on CNN 1 year ago

While it’s encouraging, it’s great, the long-term trend here has been continued drought and water shortages, but there’s a chance even with a good water year that it just kind of pushes the curve out a few months and we have to continue our planning process accordingly.

– Tommy Beaudreau

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Whereas La Niña is historically a ‘drought maker’ for the continental United States, El Niño is a ‘drought breaker,’ although the exact location of drought, or lack thereof, varies considerably from event to event.

– Brad Rippey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The shutdown we are seeing now is completely avoidable, decisions made during the drought deprived salmon of the water that they need to survive. By doing so, they took away our livelihood.

– John McManus

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Complications in some areas include decades of over-pumping of groundwater, leading to land subsidence and decreased groundwater storage capability – you can see a couple of low well readings in the San Joaquin Valley, more realistically, there is a bit of lingering ‘groundwater drought’ in northeastern and southeastern California.

– Brad Rippey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Greenstone Management Partners is going to make millions at the expense of what Greenstone Management Partners’s going to do to our communities in the future and the precedence it’s going to set, we are in the midst of an extreme drought, our communities need Colorado River water. At some point, the state has a responsibility to protect the people that are here and to protect Colorado River water and not cater to those that are buying property for the water rights to make millions off of Colorado River water to benefit metropolitan areas.

– Holly Irwin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s also kind of a little bit demeaning to blame residential use for these crises, it’s just a small sliver of the overall consumption. It’s a much bigger problem, and we really need to start bringing in these big industries that are guzzling water during this time of drought.

– Amanda Starbuck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While we’re all experiencing drought, not all drought is equal due to this 100-year-old Western water law that’s been put in place and hasn’t been changed, and that’s serving people very inequitably, but it is a system we’re dealt and working with right now – and there’s a lot we have to do to change it.

– Andrea Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

2023 has just begun, but it is showing worrying signs in terms of extreme weather events [and] drought levels.

– Giorgio Zampetti

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re accustomed to droughts here. In a normal drought year, we can still supply 80 % of the product to our customers.

– Steven Sutter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’ve been tin he business since 1983. In 40 years I have n’t experienced a drought like this ever. It’s unprecedented.

– Richard Richter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We need more than one season of rain to recover. One season wo n’t get us out of this, i have n’t experienced a drought like this ever.

– Richard Richter Greg Ponciano

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re right in the middle of rice country. The way the rice business goes is how the economy goes, three years of drought here has become the straw that broke the camel’s back.

– Richard Richter Greg Ponciano

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The whole area is usually very dry and very close to drought this time of year. Now it’s soaking wet, but that risk of drought hasn’t gone away, (and) in our predictions of how climate change is going to affect New Zealand, that’s a feature that seems to be fairly robust – that Northland (north of Auckland) will get drier.

– Daithi Stone

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We need more solutions beyond storage and dams, [McCarthy] lacks understanding of the real critical problems we’re experiencing around the drought and our communities.

– De Anda

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is really going to help a lot with the short-term drought in Northern California, perhaps even erase short-term drought conditions, but it’s going to take a lot more to completely obviate the longer term, multi-year drought impacts.

– Daniel Swain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We haven’t seen the mega floods, but we have definitely seen hints of increasingly extreme precipitation even in the middle of what has otherwise been a period characterized by a pretty severe and persistent drought.

– Daniel Swain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The face of droughts is changing, it’s easier and easier to get into a drought – even following a really wet winter – because we just have that growing evaporative demand and hotter summers.

– Daniel Swain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have to hope for more, hope the drought is over but… just getting this rain doesn’t mean the drought is over. We have to continue.

– Caywood Farms ' Nancy Caywood

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Beyond that, we look forward to exploring policies to provide long-term solutions to pressing issues like western drought, improve access to our nation’s public lands, and more.

– Rebekah Hoshiko

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Las Virgenes's not meant to be punitive, las Virgenes's meant to tell people... this drought is incredibly serious and what we need you to do is do your part.

– Mike McNutt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

China's electricity demand has been incredibly flat in the past, because so much of it has come from the industry, not from households or services. Now with air conditioning becoming more common, the demand is becoming higher, at the same time, rains are becoming more errant. Heavy rains and periods of drought make hydropower much less reliable as a source of available capacity during those peaks.

– Lauri Myllyvirta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[ The ] external application of ethanol to plants would be a useful, simple and less expensive agricultural method to enhance drought tolerance in various plants.

– Motoaki Seki

Found on CNN
1 year ago

[ We should ] do everything possible to ensure agricultural irrigation water and help farmers fight the drought and protect their autumn crops.

– Premier Li Keqiang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There's a number of crops that are really struggling due to either lack of rainfall, like the potato crop here relies on rainfall, they don't usually take water from anywhere else to irrigate the fields. And even some of the other crops that do take water from from rivers, for example, to irrigate fields, they're really struggling at the moment, even in current conditions, yields are going to be down for a number of crops and the price of these things are going to go up, and obviously that's due to drought here in The UK. But there's other things going on across Europe.

– Liz Bentley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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