The latest government maps show 95% of California is suffering severe or extreme drought.
Highlights
- Southern California officials ask residents to limit outdoor watering to once a week.
- Nearly all of the West is in drought, and 95% of California is suffering severe or extreme drought.
- Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the nation formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, needs a new pump to ensure water can flow to Las Vegas.
- NASA scientist Dr.
- JT Reager says climate change makes it hotter and drier, as climate change changes the patterns of the past and causes the West to be hotter, drier and more vulnerable to fires, he says.
- The West is not alone as reservoirs across the West are draining, as reservoir levels are draining.