Kemarau: Gabenor California arah hadkan penggunaan air

Umaira Uyop
April 2, 2015 17:20 MYT

Kekurangan jumlah salji yang turun menyebabkan California dilanda kemuncak kemarau. - Sumber gambar: www.nytimes.com

Buat pertama kali dalam sejarah, Gabenor California, Amerika Syarikat Jerry Brown mengehadkan penggunaan air di negeri tersebut.

Arahan dikeluarkan setelah kemarau yang melanda sejak 4 tahun lalu hampir mencapai kemuncak susulan kekurangan jumlah salji yang turun.

Penduduk diarah mengurangkan penggunaan air sebanyak sehingga 25 peratus.

Kawasan padang bangunan kerajaan akan diganti dengan landskap tahan kemarau manakala seluruh bandar tidak dibenarkan menyiram rumput hiasan.

Penduduk pernah disaran mengurangkan penggunaan air sebanyak 20 peratus, Januari 2014 namun sasaran gagal dicapai.

Situasi ini dapat maklum balas daripada penduduk yang meluahkannya di media sosial.

a href="https://twitter.com/guardian">@guardian: California drought: no snow to replenish reservoirs for the first time in 75 years" Is it time to panic yet ?!?!? #waterislife
— Kevin (@kev_incredible_) April 2, 2015

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@cnnbrk stop factory farming! Adopt veggie/vegan diet and problem SOLVED! Report it! Call it like it is!
— phillip gharabegian (@phillipgh) April 1, 2015

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@ryanmoore @cnnbrk @NatGeo Sure we could make a law not to shower, just to drink 1 cup of water per day and we can eat cactus
— kano (@kano163) April 1, 2015

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@TelegraphNews I wonder if they'll turn off the municipal sprinklers in LA?
— Conand (@TheTortorian) April 2, 2015

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@CNN ppl should be grateful & stop wasting water! You should do a piece on Australia's droughts & the heartbreaking animal deaths due to it
— Krissy P.A.A (@krissyistormy) April 1, 2015

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@Reuters restrictions on the communities is good.
— Marisol Palomino (@Marciolita) April 2, 2015

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@Reuters I can't take much shorter of a shower. Why don't we finally own up to the fact that we can't have bright green lawns during drought
— Steven Helferich (@stevehelferich) April 2, 2015

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I don't think y'all understand how bad the drought in California is. How bad it keeps on getting
— sad puta (@vadavada666) April 2, 2015

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Brown pernah mengisytiharkan darurat di beberapa kawasan di California tahun lepas selepas beberapa tahun dilanda kemarau.

Sementara itu, saintis tidak menafikan kemarau yang terjadi akibat kekurangan taburan hujan dan panas melampau adalah akibat pemanasan global.

#California #kemarau #pemanasan global

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