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Drought Emergency Relief Assistance program was launched in November, 2001 to mitigate the negative impact of the drought; to revive the economy and promote more sustainable use of available water and other productive resources. Under the program the main focus remained on improvement and management of available resources. [2]
Following two wet winters that boosted California’s water supplies, Gov. Gavin Newsom has officially lifted a drought emergency declaration in 19 counties that are home to 70% of the state’s ...
Progression of the drought from December 2013 to July 2014. The 2011–2017 California drought persisted from December 2011 to March 2017 [1] and consisted of the driest period in California's recorded history, late 2011 through 2014. [2] The drought wiped out 102 million trees from 2011 to 2016, 62 million of those during 2016 alone. [3]
Many millions of California trees died from the drought – approximately 102 million, including 62 million in 2016 alone. [32] By the end of 2016, 30% of California had emerged from the drought, mainly in the northern half of the state, while 40% of the state remained in the extreme or exceptional drought levels. [33]
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On average, agriculture consumes nearly 80% of the water that is pumped and diverted each year. “I think California needs an agriculture policy,” Gomberg said. “The de facto policy is cheap ...
A Thursday update from the U.S. Drought Monitor — a weekly map that illustrates drought intensities across the country — shows that California is a drought-free state that is similar to what ...
The Rural Development Administration (RDA) was a USDA agency established by the 1990 farm bill (P.L. 101-624, Sec. 2302), amending the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act of 1972 (7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.), to administer FmHA community and business programs and other USDA rural development programs.