Essay On California Drought

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Introduction
The purpose of this manuscript is to have a conversation about California, its droughts, and how agriculture is affected and how it can be amended to survive said droughts. I wish to do so by showing what are essentially what kinds of droughts California has face before. I also want to try and show how some other places have attempted to help themselves through their own methods by going through what they did for those and what they attempted to do in case of other future droughts. Drought is a terrible issue that in a place like California is generally unavoidable but there are some steps by which people can attempt to survive through, and also ensure that their crops make it through as well.
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The objectives I wish to cover are essentially what kinds of droughts California has face before and going through what they did for those …show more content…
The Department is currently funding the University of Arizona ‘s Laboratory for Tree Ring research to perform a limited reconstruction of Sacramento River hydrology.

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Sources

Boken, V. K., Cracknell, A.P. & Heathcote, R.L., 2005. Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought. Oxford University Press.

California. Department of Water Resources. 1994. Agriculture, Water, and California’s Drought of 1987-92: Background, Responses, Lessons. California.

California. Department of Water Resources. 1977. The Continuing California Drought. California.

California. Department of Water Resources. 1989. Drought Contingency Planning Guidelines for 1989. California.

California. Department of Water Resources. 2000. Preparing for California’s Next Drought: Changes since 1987-92. California: The Resources Agency.

Nix, Henry A. 1982. Aspects of Drought from an Agroclimatic Perspective. (In Drought Resistance in Crops with Emphasis on Rice, Los Baños, Laguna, Phillipines pp.

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