根据第二段中"At one time,Tulare Lake was the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River.But reservoirs (水库) and watering systems for agriculture caused it to disappear.( Tulare Lake曾经是密西西比河以西最大的淡水湖。但是水库和农业灌溉系统导致了它的消失。)"可知,由于水库和农业灌溉...
Dusty Ference is executive director of the Kings County Farm Bureau. 达斯蒂·费伦斯是金斯县农场局的执行董事。 He said more than 242 square kilometers of the area's farmland has already flooded. 他说,该地区超过242平方公里的农田已经被洪水...
After three years of relentlessly bad news about California'shistoric drought, the drenching...Rogers, Paul
Lakes, rivers and reservoirs Clear Lake Clair Engle Lake Keswick Reservoir Shasta Lake Lewiston Lake Whiskeytown Lake Stony Gorge Reservoir East Park Reservoir Black Butte Lake Boca Reservoir Prosser Creek Reservoir Stampede Reservoir Lake Berryessa ...
storms that have brought enormous amounts of rain and snow to the state and helped lessen the drought conditions that had dragged on for three years. State reservoirs that had dipped to strikingly low levels are now well above the average for this time of year, prompting state officials to ...
and adjudged that the Santa Margarita Mutual Water Company and the State of California, and each of them, "are forever barred from any and all claim of right, title or interest in and to those rights to the use of water"2which the court found vested in the United States. The judgment...
However, in very rainy years, farmland can still get covered with water.Experts say nearby reservoirs will likely receive three times more water than they can hold this year. That means officials must increase the amount of water they release(释放) from the reservoirs.But if too much water ...
Southern California is continuing to benefit from the enormous quantity of water that flowed into reservoirs during 2023, one of the state’swettest years on record. Diamond Valley Lake, the largest drinking water reservoir in Southern California, is 97% full. And the MWD is projected to...
state. Because the states' major reservoirs are at a record low from a dry three-year period, they have plenty of room to fill with more water from the impending storm, officials said.Still, trees are already stressed from years of limited rain. Now that the grounds are suddenly s...
year, an extraordinary drop from the 160% of average that was recorded a month ago,according to a releaseby the California Department of Water Resources. Officials are forecasting that by the end of the month, California's reservoirs will have 76% of average water storage for this time of...