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10 Legislation

Texas abortion law restricts women's rights.

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Vol. 28, Iss. 2

It’s getting hot in here Historic California drought poses threat to community Olivia Rounsaville, Nicole Klien

Editor-in-Chief, Senior Reporter

man, Press Secretary for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, said. “We also have local reservoirs in San Mateo County and Alameda County that we get about 15% of our water supply from.” To deal with low levels of water, many towns and cities have begun imposing a mandatory ration where households are only allotted a certain num-

rom floods in New York to hurricanes in Louisiana and Mississippi, the effects of Climate Change are becoming increasingly more drastic. In California, higher temperatures and wildfires coincide with a historic drought. “Sadly, we do not control the weather so we can not easily prevent drought,” L o v e j o y We can not easily said. “We prevent drought, can be m i n d f u l but we can be of our wa- mindful of our water ter usage and do usage and reduce our indi- emissions. vidual part — Allison Lovejoy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to lower the warming of the atber of gallons. While mosphere.” residents are not alThis is the third drilowed to wash driveest year in the last 100 ways or sidewalks and years of California hisrestaurants are not altory. With low precipilowed to serve water tation levels throughunless asked by the out the state, reservoirs customer, San Franare dwindling which cisco has not impleposes a direct threat to mented a mandatory the Bay Area’s water seration yet. curity. “Since we have limit“The bulk of our waed water I take shorter ter which is about 85% showers and use old comes from the Hetch water for plants instead Hetchy reservoir in of just pouring it out,” Yosemite,” Will Reisfreshman Kaiya Koe-

nigsberg said. “During this time of not fully rationing, I am just trying to stay conscious of my water intake and spreading the word to my friends and parents.” Whether or not the city implements a mandatory ration will depend on the amount of precipitation this winter, according to Reisman. “If there is going to

due to the fact that most residents do not have lawns; however, residents can decrease their consumption by being cautious of how much water they use. “My family and I have been especially more conscious of our water use, which has made us appreciate it more,” Koenigsberg said. “While it might be hard to take shorter showers, it would definitely help people reduce their water usage. We may consider T h e drought mandatory has effects restrictions, but it beyond depends on how the home as well. much rain we get Dried out this winter. vegetation is more — Will Reisman flammable and when combined with the dry, hot be any mandatory raweather, the probabiltioning, it would be ity of large-scale fires with irrigation first,” increases. As fires rage Reisman said. “Then, if through forests, more things get really drascarbon dioxide is retic, we may consider leased into the atmomandatory restrictions sphere which further for residential, but a lot exacerbates climate of it depends on how change, thus altering much rain we get this weather patterns and winter.” worse drought conOn average, San ditions, according to Franciscans use about Lovejoy. 43 gallons of water “The fires are a result per person every day of dry conditions bewhich is half the state cause there was not average. This is mostly see Historic, p. 2

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DRYING OUT The land around the Nicasio Reservior cracks as the water recinds to unusally low levels. Many reservoirs throughout California are dwindling due to historically low parcipitation levels in recent years.