Gavin Newsom on Thursday extended his drought emergency declarations to counties representing roughly 42% of Californians and asked everyone to do their part to save water amid a worsening drought. Newsom’s regional drought state of emergency applies to 50 California counties. AdvertisementNewsom added Inyo, Marin, Mono, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties to his regional emergency order on Thursday. Only Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco and Ventura counties are not under a regional drought state of emergency at this time. The region is mostly supplied by big federal and state water systems, rather than local precipitation.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 08, 2021 21:00 UTC