I promise you, though, that we will have a drought management plan in place next year. A plan would probably include how to identify a drought and at what point to issue restrictions, Reheis said. Similar plans have been approved in Washington and San Antonio and also New Hampshire. In South Carolina, the governor says drought stricken farmers are in desperate need of federal aid. In Flordia, where brush fire season is just heating up, crops are withering, while the wildfires burn.
People are no longer just worried, they're scared.
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