California take rain , andthey need it bad . How uncollectible ? Just have a feel at the GIF above . The first figure of speech shows Folsom Lake near Sacramento on July 20 , 2011 . The second image show Folsom Lake on January 16 , 2014 . Notice a divergence ?
That ’s what a drought of historical proportions looks like . In fact , 2013 was the driest year California has construe in 119 age , and that ’s causing some obvious problems . Gov. Jerry Brown declared a body politic of emergency brake last month , and farmers are scrambling to figure out clever ways to relieve their crops . California ’s municipal piddle arrangement has even declare that itcan’t get water supply to Farmer , which is particularly spoiled news in the body politic that supplies over one-half of America ’s fruits and vegetables ( and almonds ) . Even the chairman ’s now involved . This month , Obama pledged $ 183 million in Union funds for drought stand-in programs .
NASAis also on the case . The blank agency of late avail the worldly concern visualize the problem with a salient bent of artificial satellite images showing the fade effect the drought has had on California . NASA also supplied the images of Folsom Lake , explaining how the reservoir was at 97 percent content two - and - a - one-half years ago and just 17 percent electrical capacity in January ! NASA will extend to monitor the situation by measuring how much water is in snowpack and how much luminousness that snow absorbs . That should help them estimate how much water the province will get from snowmelt .
apart from figuring out elbow room to deal with the consequences , there ’s regrettably not too much anybody can do about this drought in the near term . Of course , we ’ll need to keep havingthat interminable conversationabout the causes and event of global warming . We can also just continue staring at that photo of the reservoir . It seem like somebody just pulled out the showstopper and allow all the body of water run out . [ NASAviaAtlantic Cities ]
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