US drought prompts drastic action

Kathy Shandling finds that nowhere in the US is totally immune to the effects of the ongoing drought.

The words “drought” and “scarcity” are apt to conjure up images of the developing world – villages in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Central America in desperate need of potable water or irrigation resources for crops. The concept of water scarcity does not immediately come to mind when categorizing the water resources of the US. But this is changing.

Over the past ...

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