California faces long-term drought
Pastor Dale Morgan
by Staff Writers
Sacramento (UPI) May 5, 2008
California officials said the state could be forced to ration water
after the driest spring in at least 150 years.
Water officials told the San Francisco Chronicle the state could be on
the verge of a long-term drought.
The Sierra Nevada snow pack is only 67 percent of normal and many
reservoirs are at well-below-average levels.
"We're in a dry spell if not a drought," California Secretary for
Resources Mike Chrisman told the newspaper. "We're in the second year,
and if we're looking at a third year, we're talking about a serious
problem."
San Francisco and Marin County have asked residents and businesses to
cut water usage by 10 percent to 20 percent and the water district
serving 330,000 people in Orange County enacted water rationing last
year, the Chronicle said.