New York announces drought warning, calls for water conservation

The drought warning is the first of three possible levels of water-saving guidelines, and Eric Adams presented it in a social media video as a measure to try to stop the worst shortages in the city. most populous in the United States. .

He asked all municipal bodies to prepare for the implementation of their water conservation plans. He asked the public to do their part, such as turning off faucets while brushing their teeth and sweeping sidewalks instead of watering them.

“Mother Nature is in charge, so we have to make sure we adapt.”

Eric Adams, mayor of New York.

Just 0.01 inches (0.02 cm) of rain fell last month in Central Park, where October typically brings about 4.4 inches (11.2 cm) of precipitation, according to the Service’s records. National Weather. City Environmental Protection Department Commissioner Rohit Aggarwala said this was the driest October in over 150 years.

To make the situation more complicated, the city is repairing a large aqueduct that carries water from the Catskill area. Residents therefore rely more on reservoirs in the suburbs of the city. This area received 2 cm of rain last month, about a fifth of the October average, the mayor’s office said in a statement on Saturday.

New York City uses an average of 4.2 billion gallons of water per day. That’s about 35 percent lower than the peak in 1979. The city attributes the decline to factors such as better leak detection.

Last month, almost half of the country suffered from a severe drought, meaning rapid drying due to a combination of low precipitation and extremely high temperatures. The Northeast ended the month with a very warm, even strange Halloween, with temperatures reaching 24 to 28 degrees Celsius from New York to Maine.

Experts attributed the flash drought to a weather pattern that prevented moisture from moving north from the Gulf of Mexico.

Dry weather hampered navigation on the Mississippi River and contributed to wildfires in the Midwest and East.

The National Weather Service continued Saturday to warn of high fire danger in places like Connecticut, where a firefighter was killed last month while battling a blaze. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​, day-long brush fire apparently started by an ​unextinguished camp fire.