Drought
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In the March 2023 issue of the Municipal Sewer and Water magazine, Luke, the editor, has an editorial that is titled “Saving for a Sunny Day“. I have always thought that we need to find ways to store water when it rains so it is available when it is dry. Luke, discusses how some new…
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Managing water is a unique thing, in really wet times we have to figure out how to best capture what we need and then release the rest while trying to figure out how to keep too much water from resulting in floods. in really dry times, how do we manage the lack or water or…
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Water conservation is something we do not always think about in that a drip here and a drip there does not seem like much, but in a city that can add up to potentially millions of gallons annually. In urban areas where the water comes from a water treatment plant, that means more water coming…
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In the July issue of Fruit Growers News, there is an article that goes over some of the issues growers in California are having to get water and some of the practices they are using to capture water for reuse. Some of the practices being used are converting from flood irrigation to drip irrigation and…
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The weekly Drought Report has been released by the National Drought Monitor and there are no dry areas in Georgia. For the contiguous 48 states, the U.S. Drought Monitor showed 30.36 percent of the area in moderate drought or worse, compared with 29.72 percent a week earlier. Drought now affects 66,283,262 people,…
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Georgia like most of the Southeast is experiencing no drought conditions to Moderate Drought conditions. More information can be found at the Drought monitor website enclosed.
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The Drought Monitor is available for 26 September 2017. After Tropical Storm IRMA, the Georgia, south Carolina, Florida and Alabama are all considered to be under no Drought. The following is copy from the latest release from the National Drought Mitigation Center: Within the announcement, there are a few links that will provide additional…
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Drought monitor shows no drought in Georgia again this week.
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Georgia Drought Map is all White for the July 25th reporting period.
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The following is copy from the latest release from the National Drought Mitigation Center: Within the announcement, there are a few links that will provide additional information. These include: Crops in Drought U.S. Drought Monitor statistics (Drought Map) Narrative of Drought U.S. Drought Monitor for July 11, 2017: For the contiguous 48 states,…
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