Places 城鄉歲月 What Time is This Place?: 加州抗旱

As California’s water crisis has worsened, the state has decided to turn off the taps. On April 1st, Governor Jerry Brown imposed California’s first mandatory curbs on water use, ordering local water agencies to cut their supply by a quarter over the coming year. Today’s interactive ‪#‎Dailychart‬ shows the Western US drought in April 2014 and today, and the proportion of California currently in droughthttp://econ.st/1INsvp8

「 Since the year 2000, droughts of increasing severity have covered more and more of California. Of the water the state makes available to its citizens, residents only consume around 20% whilst agriculture uses 80%. Turning off the household taps will help, but not much http://econ.st/1INsvp8 」

「 In the past year both San Fransisco and Los Angeles, which previously escaped the very worst of the water-shortage, have experienced ‘exceptional drought’, the highest of 5 levels of parchedness reported by the US Drought Monitor. The entire state is now registering levels of ’severe drought’ or worse http://econ.st/1INsvp8 」

「 Governor Jerry Brown’s decision to squeeze the water supply comes after measures passed in 2014 failed to bite. But this month’s cuts target residents and not farmers, who use more water than urbanites and pay less for it http://econ.st/1INsvp8 」

Places 城鄉歲月 What Time is This Place?

2015年4月10日星期五

加州抗旱

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2015年4月10日 星期五

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2015年4月10日星期五