February 22, 2013 at 8:30am 12 notes
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Source: Los Angeles Times
Dry enough for you? More than two-thirds of the U.S. is experiencing abnormally dry, if not outright drought conditions, with the situation becoming increasingly dire for western states. And the implications aren’t limited to an uptick in air conditioning. From the National Drought Early Warning Outlook: The 2012-2013 drought has serious implications for agriculture, navigation, recreation and municipal water supplies, costing the nation at least $35 billion in economic losses. Read more here, and follow reporter Neela Banerjee on Twitter. Photo: Greg Lindstrom / Longmont Times-Call

Dry enough for you?

More than two-thirds of the U.S. is experiencing abnormally dry, if not outright drought conditions, with the situation becoming increasingly dire for western states. And the implications aren’t limited to an uptick in air conditioning.

From the National Drought Early Warning Outlook:

The 2012-2013 drought has serious implications for agriculture, navigation, recreation and municipal water supplies, costing the nation at least $35 billion in economic losses.

Read more here, and follow reporter Neela Banerjee on Twitter.

Photo: Greg Lindstrom / Longmont Times-Call

May 22, 2011 at 12:10pm 37 notes
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Source: Los Angeles Times
West Texas farmers and ranchers are struggling to survive the worst drought in the region since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Photo: In Fluvanna, Texas, rancher Ralph Miller, 79, checks on one of many “stock tanks” of water that are receding because of a severe drought. View more photos on Framework. Credit: Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times 

West Texas farmers and ranchers are struggling to survive the worst drought in the region since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

Photo: In Fluvanna, Texas, rancher Ralph Miller, 79, checks on one of many “stock tanks” of water that are receding because of a severe drought. View more photos on Framework. Credit: Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times 

April 4, 2011 at 12:15pm 13 notes
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In his column today, George Skelton discusses the news that Gov. Jerry Brown has officially declared the three-year drought over. P.S. ARTINFO’s Tyler Green runs the excellent 3rdofmay Tumblr. reblogged via 3rdofmay: The art: Pirkle Jones, House Being Moved, from the series “Death of a Valley,” 1956 (printed 1960). Jones and Dorothea Lange collaborated on “Death of a Valley,” which chronicled the last days of Monticello, Calif., before the town and the surrounding Berryessa Valley were dammed into Lake Berryessa. The reservoir is sited west of Sacramento, about halfway between the state capital and the Napa Valley wine-growing region. It’s one of the least-known great narrative photo-documentary series in American art. The news: “Water, water everywhere, but not enough is saved,” by George Skelton in the Los Angeles Times. Skelton reports that California built its last dam in 1979. Since then the state’s population has increased by about 50 percent, or over 14 million people. The source: Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. More of the series is online here.

In his column today, George Skelton discusses the news that Gov. Jerry Brown has officially declared the three-year drought over.

P.S. ARTINFO’s Tyler Green runs the excellent 3rdofmay Tumblr.

reblogged via 3rdofmay:

The art: Pirkle Jones, House Being Moved, from the series “Death of a Valley,” 1956 (printed 1960). Jones and Dorothea Lange collaborated on “Death of a Valley,” which chronicled the last days of Monticello, Calif., before the town and the surrounding Berryessa Valley were dammed into Lake Berryessa. The reservoir is sited west of Sacramento, about halfway between the state capital and the Napa Valley wine-growing region. It’s one of the least-known great narrative photo-documentary series in American art.

The news: “Water, water everywhere, but not enough is saved,” by George Skelton in the Los Angeles Times. Skelton reports that California built its last dam in 1979. Since then the state’s population has increased by about 50 percent, or over 14 million people.

The source: Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. More of the series is online here.

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