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Gov. Gavin Newsom has lifted the declaration of a drought emergency for much of California's population. But he is keeping drought measures in place in some areas.
Officials in California, now in its third year of drought that ... where the start of 2022 was the driest ... the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) has issued restrictions ...
"The combination of the abundance of rain and snow from the winter of 2022-2023, the state of the reservoirs, and what has happened this winter gives a high confidence that drought conditions will ...
As of March 22, 2022, the National Drought Mitigation Center's U.S. Drought Monitor saw the entire state in moderate to extreme drought conditions. [23] In February, their Drought Severity and Coverage (DSCI) index, which measures cumulative dryness, was at 275, or nearly twice the 20-year average of approximately 146, according to the San ...
The nation's largest water supplier has declared a drought emergency for all of Southern California, clearing the way for potential mandatory water restrictions early next year that could impact ...
The flooding in late December 2022 and early January 2023 alleviated some of the drought conditions by January 3. [17] By March 16, all exceptional and extreme drought was washed out of California. [18] In mid-April, the Governor announced the state would meet 100% of requested water allocations for the first time since 2006.
California's drought rules forbid the use of drinking water for irrigating grass that is purely decorative at businesses and some residential areas. California just adopted new, tougher water ...
The drought led to Governor Jerry Brown's instituting mandatory 25 percent water restrictions in June 2015. [31] Many millions of California trees died from the drought – approximately 102 million, including 62 million in 2016 alone. [32]