Parched California Heads into 'Perfect Drought'
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A typical summer's day in Los Angeles: temperatures in the mid thirties, the sun blazes high in the sky, palm trees sway in the ocean breeze, and sprinklers spray a fine mist of water into the scorching air.
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Wildfire-hit California prepares for at least another 24 hours of high winds and scorching temperatures.
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TEMECULA, California  - California wine country in fall is picture-perfect as vines turn gold and orange and workers harvest plump grape bunches to crush for cabernets, chardonnays and pinot noirs.
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Blog: Some wet areas of earth will get wetter with climate change.
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More than 60 percent of the United States now has abnormally dry or drought conditions, stretching from Georgia to Arizona and across the north through the Dakotas, Minnesota, Montana and Wisconsin, said Mark Svoboda, a climatologist for the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
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Southern Californians, fond of their private pools, golf courses, garden sprinklers and the ubiquitous car wash, are being urged to reform their water-guzzling ways after the region's driest year on record.
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Nuclear reactors across the Southeast could be forced to throttle back or temporarily shut down later this year because drought is drying up the rivers and lakes that supply power plants with the awesome amounts of cooling water they need to operate.
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The worst drought in over a century has farmers averting their gaze from a future that looks as bleak as their fields.
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By Mike Taugher, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Feb. 26--An environmental crisis could disrupt water supplies throughout California for the first time since the early 1990s, threatening to end the long cease-fire in the state's water wars.
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An epic drought in Georgia threatens the water supply for millions. Florida doesn't have nearly enough water for its expected population boom. The Great Lakes are shrinking. Upstate New York's reservoirs have dropped to record lows. And in the West, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is melting faster each year. Across America, the picture is critically clear Â the nation's freshwater supplies can no longer quench its thirst.
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By Mike McCormick; Vicky Eckenrode< Morris News Service  ATLANTA - A dry winter coupled with record high temperatures has resulted in a  nationwide drought that's left farmers and water officials praying for rain.
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The low snowpack in the Cascade Range is raising the specter of water shortages this summer, but a new study of tree-ring data indicates the Northwest has endured far worse droughts over the past 250 years &#151; and is likely to again.
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Barring a surprise arrival of the kind of gully washers Texas is getting these days, Los Angeles' driest year in 130 years of record-keeping will go into the books this weekend.
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A slow-rolling series of storms that battered parts of the West this week had more precipitation in store for California, where weather
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Wildfires feeding on the driest brush in years erupted across Southern California, burning thousands of acres.
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By Patrick O'Driscoll  Severe drought and record heat in Southern California are making March feel like July, and with dangerous results.
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Years of drought along the Colorado River have created a harsh reality for the booming Las Vegas Valley: The metropolitan area will not be able to grow in the decades ahead without new sources of potable water.