{"id":486,"date":"2018-03-20T12:15:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T16:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/?page_id=486"},"modified":"2023-04-20T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T18:21:07","slug":"drought","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Georgia receives on average 40-52 inches of rain annually.&nbsp; However, if precipitation is less than&nbsp;the amount needed for infiltration and runoff for an extended&nbsp;period of time, drought conditions occur. <strong>Agricultural<\/strong>&nbsp;drought is where drought conditions extend for short&nbsp;periods of time (depending on area geography) and plants&nbsp;are affected. If drought conditions extend for long periods of time (years), water resources can be severely impacted,&nbsp;which causes a <strong>hydrologic<\/strong> drought. Under an agricultural&nbsp;drought, if rainfall returns to average levels the drought&nbsp;can be stopped. Under a hydrologic drought, ground and&nbsp;surface water resources may be depleted and small amounts&nbsp;of rainfall may be insufficient to return water levels to safe&nbsp;conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The above was taken from a UGA Publication (Protecting Georgia\u2019s Surface Water Resources, Bulletin 1217) and the information on this page will provide documents, web links, and information on Drought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Posts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1316 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-anr-water category-drought category-stormwater category-conservation\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e0082cf6 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title has-large-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/2023\/04\/stormwater-is-useable-we-need-to-harvest\/\" target=\"_self\" >Stormwater is useable &#8212; we need to harvest<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date has-small-font-size\"><time datetime=\"2023-04-05T07:00:00-04:00\">April 5, 2023<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1308 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-anr-water category-drought category-general-water-issues category-stormwater category-conservation tag-ugaextension tag-ugawater\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e0082cf6 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title has-large-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/2022\/10\/bridging-the-gap-with-water-management\/\" target=\"_self\" >&#8220;Bridging the Gap&#8217; with Water Management<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date has-small-font-size\"><time datetime=\"2022-10-15T07:19:04-04:00\">October 15, 2022<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1305 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-anr-water category-drought category-conservation tag-ugaextension tag-ugawater\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e0082cf6 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title has-large-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/2022\/09\/water-conservation-in-urban-areas\/\" target=\"_self\" >Water Conservation in Urban Areas<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date has-small-font-size\"><time datetime=\"2022-09-08T12:51:32-04:00\">September 8, 2022<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1288 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-anr-water category-drought category-stormwater category-conservation\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e0082cf6 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title has-large-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/2022\/08\/water-concerns-in-california-and-some-fixes\/\" target=\"_self\" >Water concerns in California and some fixes<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date has-small-font-size\"><time datetime=\"2022-08-11T16:46:28-04:00\">August 11, 2022<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-931 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-drought\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e0082cf6 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title has-large-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/2018\/07\/drought-report-for-10-july-2018\/\" target=\"_self\" >Drought Report for 10 July 2018<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date has-small-font-size\"><time datetime=\"2018-07-13T10:04:55-04:00\">July 13, 2018<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Coming soon!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Coming soon!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia receives on average 40-52 inches of rain annually.&nbsp; However, if precipitation is less than&nbsp;the amount needed for infiltration and runoff for an extended&nbsp;period of time, drought conditions occur. Agricultural&nbsp;drought is where drought conditions extend for short&nbsp;periods of time (depending on area geography) and plants&nbsp;are affected. If drought conditions extend for long periods of time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-with-sidebar","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-486","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/486\/revisions\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}