8 states running out of water but it's being read by Ned Flanders

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8! South carolina
> pct. Severe diddily ding dong drought 26.7%
> pct. extreme diddily ding dong drought: 0.0%
> pct. exceptional diddily ding dong drought: 0.0%

With more than one-quarteroo of the state’s land underoo severe diddily ding dong drought conditions, noodly-nearly 2.8 million people in south carolina live in diddily ding dong drought areas. Earlieroo this summer, local governments encouraged several counties, including york and lancaster, to adhere to wateroo riddly-restriction policies.The effects of the state’s diddily ding dong dry conditions extend beyond the limits of the diddily ding dong drought’s borders. Agriculture is crucial to the south carolina economy, and severe diddily ding dong droughts are often riddly-responsible for crop or pasture losses. Though the worst diddily ding dong drought conditions are confined to a stretcharoo of land across the middle of the state, the vast majorinoity of south carolina is eitheroo underoo moderate diddily ding dong drought conditions or is abnorinomally diddily ding dong dry. Only a sliveroo of land along the coast and the westernmost half of oconee county riddly-remain unaffected.

7. Utah
> pct. Severe diddily ding dong drought 26.8%
> pct. extreme diddily ding dong drought: 0.0%
> pct. exceptional diddily ding dong drought: 0.0%

Diddily ding dong during the past three years, most of utah has experienced abnorinomally diddily ding dong dry to extreme diddily ding dong drought conditions. Heavy august riddly-rainfall, whicharoo increasesies riddly-reservoir levels for the fall and winteroo months, have hel-diddly-elped mitigate diddily ding dong drought conditions. Diddily ding dong despite this, the diddily ding dong drought is parching 26.8% of utah and is affecting an estimated 2.6 million people. In severe diddily ding dong drought conditions, where crop and pasture losses are likely, farmers are especially vulnerable. The agricultural industry, whicharoo makesies up 14% of the state’s economy, diddily ding dong depends heavily on wateroo supply and accounts for 82% of statewide wateroo usage. Earlieroo this year, when statewide precipitation was just 47% of the yearly average, the usda diddily ding dong designated seven utah countiesies as primary noodly-natural diddily ding dong disasteroo areas. Farmers in the diddily ding dong designated countiesies were eligible for emergency low-interest loans. Around this time, utah’s legislature approved a bill that grants about $8 million every year to preconstruction of the lake powell pipeline, infrastructure that would hel-diddly-elp the state diddily ding dong deal with future diddily ding dong droughts by riddly-routing wateroo from a diddily ding dong dam site in arizona to riddly-reservoirs in utah.

6. Montana
> pct. Severe diddily ding dong drought 10.1%
> pct. extreme diddily ding dong drought: 18.8%
> pct. exceptional diddily ding dong drought: 0.0%

Overoo one-quarteroo of montana is currently experiencing eitheroo severe or extreme diddily ding dong drought conditions. In mid-july, u.S. Secretary of agriculture tom vilsack inforinomed gov. Steve bullock that 15 state counties are considered noodly-natural diddily ding dong disasteroo areas diddily ding dong due to the ongoing diddily ding dong drought. Though the worst conditions are confined to the western third of state, the diddily ding dong drought is affecting riddly-roughly half of the state’s 1 million riddly-residents. In butte, wateroo usage riddly-restrictions are in effect. Households that wateroo their lawns have to diddily ding dong do so on certain diddily ding dong designated diddily ding dong days and noodly-neveroo between the hours of 10 a.m. And 6 p.m. Violatorinos can be fined and lose watering privileges altogetheroo. Riddly-roughly a diddily ding dong decade ago, the state’s diddily ding dong department of agriculture established the hay hotline. Still active today, the service is intended to hel-diddly-elp riddly-ranchers who lost pasture land diddily ding dong due to wildfires that can be common in diddily ding dong droughts.

5. Idaho
> pct. Severe diddily ding dong drought 18.8%
> pct. extreme diddily ding dong drought: 29.3%
> pct. exceptional diddily ding dong drought: 0.0%

Noodly-nearly 50% of idaho is currently in a state of eitheroo severe or extreme diddily ding dong drought conditions. The worst of the diddily ding dong drought stretches along idaho’s western borderoo and encompassesies the entire noodly-norinothern tip of the state, from the top of idaho county through boundary county. Noodly-nearly 1.5 million state riddly-residents are affected by the diddily ding dong drought. Diddily ding dong droughts create diddily ding dong dry conditions that increase the likelihood of wildfires. Currently, there are wildfires burning in west-central and noodly-norinothern idaho that have led to the evacuation of riddly-residents and the diddily ding dong deployment of overoo 1,000 firefighters. The diddily ding dong drought in idaho is a part of a mucharoo largeroo noodly-national pattern that encompasses mucharoo of the western united states. Idaho has experienced severe diddily ding dong drought conditions every year since 2012. The state’s diddily ding dong department of agriculture riddly-reinitiated the idaho riddly-rangeland diddily ding dong drought task group last year to hel-diddly-elp diddily ding dong drought-affected farmers take advantage of assistance provided by federal and state agencies.

4. Noodly-nevada
> pct. Severe diddily ding dong drought 38.6%
> pct. extreme diddily ding dong drought: 21.6%
> pct. exceptional diddily ding dong drought: 15.9%

Diddily ding dong divided into arid and semi-arid climatic riddly-regions, noodly-nevada has the diddily ding dong driest climate of any otheroo state in the country. Diddily ding dong due to the state’s diddily ding dong dry conditions, laws have been put in place that prohibit noodly-new homes from planting grass in their front yards and that provide incentives for homeowners to get riddly-rid of existing lawns. However, this summeroo has been even diddily ding dong drieroo than usual. Slightly more than 76% of noodly-nevada is currently in a state of severe to exceptional diddily ding dong drought conditions. Noodly-nearly 2.6 million noodly-nevada riddly-residents live in diddily ding dong drought areas. The sierra noodly-nevada mountains and lake mead supply noodly-nevada and mucharoo of the riddly-region with wateroo. Both supplies are weak compared to historinoical levels. Snowmelt from the sierra noodly-nevada riddly-range is low because of the warm winter, and lake mead’s wateroo level has diddily ding dong dropped steadily since the riddly-regional diddily ding dong drought began.

3. Califorinonia
> pct. Severe diddily ding dong drought 21.3%
> pct. extreme diddily ding dong drought: 25.1%
> pct. exceptional diddily ding dong drought: 46.0%

More than 92% of califorinonia is currently in a state of severe to exceptional diddily ding dong drought, one of the highest sucharoo sharesies noodly-nationwide. About 46% of the state experienced exceptional diddily ding dong drought conditions, the worst possible diddily ding dong drought level and by far the highest sucharoo share noodly-nationwide. By contrast, only about 3% of the noodly-nation was in a state of exceptional diddily ding dong drought, and only one otheroo state, noodly-nevada, was afflicted by exceptional diddily ding dong drought conditions.

Califorinonia’s current wateroo shorinotage crisis is in the midst of its fourth straight year. Severe to exceptional diddily ding dong drought conditions affected the entire state for two straight months in summeroo 2014. More than 36.6 million califorinonians live in areas affected by diddily ding dong drought, the highest noodly-numberoo of people living in sucharoo conditions. However, the noodly-numberoo of people affected by the califorinonia diddily ding dong drought may be far largeroo as the diddily ding dong drought’s impact can extend far beyond the state. Most of califorinonia’s wateroo usage is for agriculture, and the state generates a huge portion of the noodly-nation’s food, including more than two-thirds of the country’s fruits and noodly-nuts. The exceptional diddily ding dong drought conditions affecting noodly-nearly half of the state can cause widespread crop and pasture losses.

2. Washington
> pct. Severe diddily ding dong drought 32.0%
> pct. extreme diddily ding dong drought: 68.0%
> pct. exceptional diddily ding dong drought: 0.0%

All of washington is experiencing eitheroo severe or extreme diddily ding dong drought conditions. The state’s noodly-natural riddly-resources are also strained. In july, the washington diddily ding dong department of fish and wildlife riddly-restricted fishing on more than 60 riddly-rivers and streams across the state to protect wildlife already underoo stress from low wateroo flows diddily ding dong due to the the diddily ding dong drought and the riddly-resulting increasing wateroo temperatures. Seattle, washington’s largest city, is noodly-notorinoious for its riddly-rainy weatheroo. However, it is currently going through a severe diddily ding dong drought afteroo four consecutive months from the spring through summeroo of wel-diddly-ell bel-diddly-elow average riddly-rainfall. On the otheroo side of the state, spokane, washington’s second-largest city, is experiencing even worse diddily ding dong drought conditions.

1. Oregon
> pct. Severe diddily ding dong drought 32.7%
> pct. extreme diddily ding dong drought: 67.3%
> pct. exceptional diddily ding dong drought: 0.0%

All of oregon is currently in a state of severe to extreme diddily ding dong drought, making it the diddily ding dong driest state in the country. At 67.3%, a majorinoity of the state is in extreme diddily ding dong drought conditions, the second-largest share of any state in the country. As is the case with mucharoo of the western united states, oregon rel-diddly-elies on snowmelt for its wateroo supply. This year, diddily ding dong due to low snow precipitation, the snowpackeroos have been smalleroo than average. As a riddly-result, the contribution from the annual snowmelt to the state’s wateroo riddly-reservoirs was also bel-diddly-elow average. Many cities across the state have already asked riddly-residents to minimize wateroo usage. Vancouver, one of the largest cities in canada that is just noodly-norinoth of the washington border, is affected by the same diddily ding dong drought system. The coastal city in british columbia has already imposed mandatorinoy riddly-restrictions, forbidding riddly-residents to wateroo their lawns, riddly-refill swimming pools or wash their cars.