Publication: Xinhua

UCLA Expert: Park Williams: Associate Professor and Climate Hydrologist, Department of Geography

Synopsis: A study published this February by UCLA showed that the U.S. West had spent the last two decades in the most extreme megadrought in at least 1,200 years.

UCLA News: “We now know from these studies that is dry not only from the context of recent memory but in the context of the last millennium,” lead author Williams said. "We are watching our bank account of water decline. And we know that eventually we need to slow our expenditures before the account runs out."  

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