{"id":927,"date":"2014-09-25T22:43:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T02:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=927"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:17:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:17:22","slug":"drought-watchers-concerned-about-california-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/09\/drought-watchers-concerned-about-california-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought watchers concerned about California, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two stories this week discussed long-term drought issues in different parts of the world. \u00a0<em>Bloomberg<\/em> reported that California and the rest of the West is watching this coming winter anxiously. \u00a0Communities in the West depend on winter snowfall to provide them with up to 90 percent of their water for the summer dry season. \u00a0The dwindling chances for El Nino to provide a wet winter season are increasing concerns that the drought will not end any time soon. \u00a0You can read the story <a title=\"Drought in west depends on winter snow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/article\/no_drought_relief_seen_for_us_west_without_deep_mountain_snows_BLMG\/?smartid=&amp;spMailingID=47048336&amp;spUserID=ODQxODg4MTEwMDgS1&amp;spJobID=523137456&amp;spReportId=NTIzMTM3NDU2S0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> at <em>AgWeb<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in northern China farmers are suffering through a drought that is the worst in 60 years. \u00a0Estimates of losses to agriculture so far exceed $1.2 billion. \u00a0Even before the rain stopped, according to Associated Press (as reported<a title=\"China drought\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/article\/farmers_in_china_wrestle_with_drought_NAA_Associated_Press\/?smartid=&amp;spMailingID=47056781&amp;spUserID=ODQxODg4MTEwMDgS1&amp;spJobID=523279558&amp;spReportId=NTIzMjc5NTU4S0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> here <\/a>in <em>AgWeb<\/em>), groundwater levels in some areas had dropped by as much as 260 feet. \u00a0The drought is one of an increasing number of water crises that has affected the area in recent years. \u00a0Trends towards warmer temperatures and lower rainfall in northeast China and higher intensity rainfall in southern China have also increased concerns about long-term impacts of climate trends on agriculture and providing predictable water supplies for an enormous population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two stories this week discussed long-term drought issues in different parts of the world. \u00a0Bloomberg reported that California and the rest of the West is watching this coming winter anxiously. \u00a0Communities in the West depend on winter snowfall to provide them with up to 90 percent of their water for the summer dry season. \u00a0The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22878,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/22878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}