California Governor Gavin Newsom made no mention of the state’s ongoing drought in his annual “State of the State” address on Tuesday evening, ignoring water issues that critics say have become an urgent necessity after years of neglect.
to create a “Care Court” to make it easier to move mentally ill homeless people off the street.
The ongoing drought is now in its third year, following the wet years of 2017-18 and 2018-19, which themselves came at the end of a historic drought. Weather.comThe current drought in California started in early 2020. By the end of that year, nearly 75% of the state was in severe drought conditions or worse, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. By mid-August 2021, nearly half the state was in exceptional drought conditions, the worst category of drought.
As of Feb. 1, most of the state now falls under severe and moderate drought conditions, with no exceptional drought conditions and less than 2% of the state in an extreme drought.
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