https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/29/megadrought-us-south-west-fires-water-research
Intensified by climate change, the current 20-year arid period is one of the worst on record, with wide-ranging effects
The Enterprise Bridge passes over a section of Lake Oroville that is nearly dry in 2014 in Oroville, California. The region is in the grip of a 20-year megadrought, research suggests. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
When Ken Pimlott began fighting US wildfires at the age of 17, they seemed to him to be a brutal but manageable natural phenomenon.
“We had periodic [fire] sieges in the 80s, but there were breaks in between,” said Pimlott, the former head of the California department of forestry and fire protection. But no longer. “That doesn’t really happen…
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