The nation's largest water supplier has declared a drought emergency for all of Southern California, clearing the way for potential mandatory water restrictions early next year that could impact 19 million people.
Compounding factors, including low rainfall and snowpack, climate change and persisting droughts from previous years, have escalated into extreme dryness.
Gov. Newsom has placed most of California under a drought emergency, which could leave communities struggling with agricultural pollution without drinking water.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday expanded a drought emergency in the nation's most populous state as one of the warmest, driest springs on record threatens another severe wildfire season across the American West.
