New York City declared a drought warning and asked residents to conserve water

Mayor of New York urge residents to take shorter showersfix leaky faucets and save water in general, issuing a drought warning Saturday after a dry October not only in the city but across much of the United States.

The drought warning is the first of three levels of water conservation guidelines, and Mayor Eric Adams introduced it in a social media video as a measure to try. avoid worse shortages in the most populous city in the United States.

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

He ordered all the village groups to prepare for him implement your water conservation plans. He asked the public to do their part, for example by turning off faucets while brushing their teeth and sweeping sidewalks instead of putting them down.

The mayor also urged residents report open hydrants and other leaks in the streets. The proposal comes days after the city fixed a leaky hydrant in Brooklyn that was feeding a pond of floating sidewall goldfish.

Only 0.02 centimeters of rain fell last month in Central Parkwhere October typically brings about 4.5 inches, National Weather Service records show. City Environment Protection Department Commissioner Rohit Aggarwala said this is the driest October in more than 150 years of records.

Adding to the water shortage, the city is repairing a large aqueduct that carries water from the Catskill region, leaving residents more dependent on reservoirs in the city’s suburbs . That area received 2 centimeters (0.1 inch) of rain last month, about a fifth of the October average, the mayor’s office said in a statement Saturday.

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

Last month, almost half of the country was in a sudden drought, means rapid drying due to a combination of low rainfall and extremely high temperatures. The Northeast ended the month with an unusually – one might even say unusually – warm Halloween, with temperatures reaching 80 degrees from New York to Maine.

Experts referred to the sudden drought to a weather pattern qIt prevented moisture from moving north from the Gulf of Mexico.

Dry weather limited shipping on the Mississippi River and it contributed to wildfires in the Middle and East.

The National Weather Service continued to warn on Saturday of elevated fire danger in places including Connecticut, where a firefighter died last month while ‘ battled a day-long brush fire apparently fueled by an unextinguished camp fire.