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- In the Northeast, according to the National Drought Mitigation Center, Delaware and New Jersey are drought-free. In the South, they include Florida, North Carolina and Virginia. In the center of the country, Tennessee qualifies.
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- Texas. While the aquifers beneath Texas don’t face the level of critical collapse that California’s do, the hot, dry Southwestern state is also facing a thirsty century.
- Idaho. This state has the dubious honor of hosting the fastest collapsing aquifer in the Nature researchers’ dataset: the Mill Creek Aquifer, which is losing 2.17 meters (more than 7 feet) of water per year — a serious concern for the 200,000 people who rely on it for drinking water.
- Arizona. The driving forces behind Arizona’s water woes are a mix of those causing the losses in California and the Texas High Plains: declines in the Colorado River, which supplies Arizona with more than a third of its water, booming cities and an agriculture industry that is growing thirsty crops such as alfalfa using sparsely regulated groundwater.
- Utah. For now, Utah’s big cities can rely on the snowmelt that comes off the Wasatch Front, which looms above the urban corridor that includes Salt Lake City — a metropolis that gets just 10 percent of its water from underground.
Sep 17, 2020 · These maps show each state’s overall drought vulnerability (red) and how it ranks in the three individual categories that make up the score: sensitivity (blue), exposure (yellow-orange), and ability to adapt (purple).
- Houston, Texas
- Jackson, Mississippi
- South Texas / Rio Grande Valley
- Honolulu, Hawaii
- Las Vegas, New Mexico
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Benton Harbor, Michigan
Officials are warning more than 2 million people in the Houston area to boil their water before using it to cook, bathe and drink after a power outage at a water purification plant caused low water pressure. On Twitter, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said the city believes the water is safe, but a boil order was issued as a precaution because of th...
Most of the city's 150,000 Jackson residents have been on a boil water notice since July 29 because the state health department found cloudy water that could cause digestive problems. Many were left without any water at all after a major pump at the city’s main treatment facility was damaged in late August. The water crisis was a result of decades-...
The Rio Grande Valley is facing pressure from an ongoing drought and a looming water shortage, so much so that the threat pushed two county judgesto issue disaster declarations in August. But it's not just the Rio Grande Valley. In early August, Gov. Greg Abbott declared and renewedthe disaster status of several counties over the drought. Reservoir...
In November 2021, jet fuel leaked from a storage facility operated by the Navy, contaminating the drinking water of local Honolulu residents and sickening hundreds of families. The Hawaii Department of Health received almost 500 complaints reporting petroleum odors coming from residential tap water supplied by the Navy water system, alongside repor...
The New Mexico city of roughly 13,000 people has been relying on reservoirsthat had less than 50 days worth of stored water when Mayor Louie Trujillo declared the emergency in July. The city's water supply in the Bradner Reservoir had been tainted with large amounts of fire-related debris and ash following the Calf Canyon-Hermits Peak Fire. The lar...
Baltimore residents have been urged to boil tap waterafter E. coli was discovered in several West Baltimore locations, affecting more than 1,500 people. While the health department continues to perform leak detection and leak checks in the region, residents continue to haul water bottles and jugs home, with no insight into how long they'll be witho...
Elevated levels of lead have been detected in the Benton Harbor's water system since at least 2018, according to a Natural Resources Defense Council petition filed in September to the Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of local advocacy groups and residents. The replacement of lead-tainted service lines began under Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2...
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Oct 18, 2020 · Six states do not have any areas that are listed as D0, D1, D2, D3 or D4. In the Northeast, according to the National Drought Mitigation Center, Delaware and New Jersey are...
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Aug 8, 2024 · At our current rate of consumption, the U.S. may experience severe water shortages in the decades ahead. These shortages would blanket several areas of the United States, including parts of the Great Plains, the South, the Southwest, the Midwest, the Rocky Mountain states, and California.
Apr 6, 2023 · The 6 States Running Out of Water. The areas where water resource scarcity is most severe are the Middle East and North Africa — hosting 6.3% of the world’s population and containing only 1.4% of the planet’s renewable drinking water, reports the Population Reference Bureau. However, while shortages are acute in developing countries, this ...
Aug 18, 2019 · Basically, without impacts, how can there be a drought? Water limited areas, croplands and grazing lands, regions with more vulnerable populations (people and animals) will experience more impacts, hence can be more prone to drought. Check out your county.
