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Rain Due to Fengal Fills Up Five Dams in Tirupati
1 month, 1 week ago

Rain Due to Fengal Fills Up Five Dams in Tirupati

Deccan Chronicle  

Tirupati: Cyclone Fengal has caused incessant rainfall over past three days on the hill town of Tirumala, leading to all its five major dams—Papavinasanam, Akasaganga, Gogarbham, Kumaradhara, and Pasupudhara—nearing their full capacity. It is currently holding 4,345 lakh gallons of water, against its full storage capacity of 5,240 lakh gallons. Gogarbham Dam has reached its full capacity of 2,833 lakh …

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Bomb Cyclone to unleash 8 trillion gallons of water on California: What is it?
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Bomb Cyclone to unleash 8 trillion gallons of water on California: What is it?

India Today  

A colossal weather phenomenon known as a "bomb cyclone" is set to erupt off the US West Coast, bringing with it a barrage of extreme conditions that threaten to wreak havoc across multiple states. A massive "bomb cyclone" is set to explode off the U.S. West Coast with hurricane force winds, flooding rains, and enormous mountain snow from Category 5 …

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L.A.’s water supplies are in good shape. But is the city ready for the next drought?
8 months, 3 weeks ago

L.A.’s water supplies are in good shape. But is the city ready for the next drought?

LA Times  

California’s second wet winter in a row has left L.A.’s water supplies in good shape, and the city has used its reprieve from drought to make progress on water-saving infrastructure projects. After the state’s final snow survey of the season, officials with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power announced that Eastern Sierra snowpack is measuring 103% of normal, …

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US Cities Could Be Capturing Billions of Gallons of Rain a Day
10 months, 1 week ago

US Cities Could Be Capturing Billions of Gallons of Rain a Day

Wired  

Your city is a scab on the landscape: sidewalks, roads, parking lots, rooftops—the built environment repels water into sewers and then into the environment. Urban areas in the United States generate an estimated 59.5 million acre-feet of stormwater runoff per year on average—equal to 53 billion gallons each day—according to a new report from the Pacific Institute, a nonprofit research …

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Pounding rains force millions of gallons of raw sewage to spill from L.A. County sewers
11 months ago

Pounding rains force millions of gallons of raw sewage to spill from L.A. County sewers

LA Times  

Heavy rains pummeling Southern California for the last several days are forcing millions of gallons of raw sewage to spew from sewer connections across Los Angeles County and flow into coastal waters off Long Beach and San Pedro, according to health and sanitation officials. As communities throughout the Los Angeles Basin cope with mudflows, power outages and flooding, county sanitation …

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LA County captured enough rain this week to provide water to 65,600 residents for a year
11 months ago

LA County captured enough rain this week to provide water to 65,600 residents for a year

CNN  

Los Angeles CNN — While this week’s atmospheric river drenched Southern California with record-breaking rainfall, some water managers were busy capturing some of that runoff to save for dry days ahead. Los Angeles County Public Works captured 2.7 billion gallons of stormwater as the rain fell in sheets, public information officer Liz Vazquez told CNN in an email – enough …

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Spain’s Catalonia region declares a drought emergency in 24 towns that will see water cuts
1 year, 5 months ago

Spain’s Catalonia region declares a drought emergency in 24 towns that will see water cuts

Associated Press  

MADRID — Northeastern Spain’s Catalonia region declared a drought emergency in 24 municipalities Wednesday following a severe lack of rain in recent years. Restrictions put in place as part of the emergency will principally affect agricultural and industrial water usage but not drinking water, Catalonia Water Agency Director Samuel Reyes said at a news conference. The Catalonia Water Agency said …

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Drought brings scrutiny to Utah’s high water use, low rates
3 years, 3 months ago

Drought brings scrutiny to Utah’s high water use, low rates

Associated Press  

SALT LAKE CITY — When a homeowner in St. George turns on their sprinklers in mid-summer, the water that greens their lawns has already traveled from mountain springs and wells through an 850-mile pipeline network. Utahns pay low water rates — “artificially low,” according to Frankel — because most Utah water districts are heavily subsidized by property taxes. “The richest …

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