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...arid fields and shrunken water catches that Jimmy Carter saw in California's San Joaquin Valley last week are a common, heartbreaking sight throughout the American West this spring. From the Pacific to the eastern slopes of the Colorado Rockies, the winter's near-record drought meant dry riverbeds and a snowpack that in some areas was less than a fifth of the usual level. In a region where more than three-quarters of the fresh water normally comes from the spring runoff of the snowpack, the water-supply outlook for the summer months is ominous. April brought...
Ward finally broke the Harvard drought at 10:32 of the final quarter, but Boltja fired home his sixth of the afternoon less than a minute later to make sure no late rally developed...
...place in bleached and bare California has been harder hit by the two-year drought than Marin County. Strict rationing has been imposed, with water priced as high as $50 per 100 cu. ft. for those who exceed their allotments. The first bills under the new plan arrived last week, and some of them made a splash...
Almost one fourth of the students on board here will participate in a fast tonight to support agricultural development in the drought-stricken islands of Cape Verde, the fast's organizer said yesterday...
...shortages threw more than a million adults out of work, and about a million youngsters out of school, for brief periods during the bitter winter just ended. Power shortages might well close factories and schools and black out homes in the Pacific Northwest next winter, because a prolonged drought has curtailed hydroelectric power production and utilities have not built enough coal and nuclear power plants to take up the slack...