Sentences with phrase «summer as reservoir»

Small communities in some regions have started to run out of water entirely, and increasingly stringent urban conservation measures have been enacted over the summer as reservoir storage drops to critically low levels.

Not exact matches

Earlier spring - like weather means more of the precipitation will not be stored as long in the mountains, which can result in lower river and reservoir levels during late summer and early fall.

Yet even last summer — staring at the effects of growth and drought on the reservoir, where once - drowned islands were visible for the first time in as much as 75 years — Mulroy apologized for none of it.

The state's normal strategy for water management calls for keeping the reservoirs low in winter, to provide protection against floods, and keeping them as high as possible in summer, to ensure an adequate supply for the giant farming operations in the Central Valley (one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world) and for arid southern California.

Storm water absorbed in the winter can then serve as a reservoir of summer refreshment for growing crops, says U.C. Davis's Helen Dahlke.

Warming temperatures in the region are a major concern for water resources, as eastern Washington depends on its winter snowpack to supply reservoirs and streams come the warmer summer months.

These glaciers store as much water as all of the states lakes, rivers, and reservoirs combined, and 25 % of the North Cascade region's total summer water supply.