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KNAU and Arizona News
2:38 pm
Tue August 14, 2012

Despite Heavier Monsoons, Flagstaff's Water Supply is Still Low.

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Monsoon Clouds in Arizona
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Despite a wet monsoon season, Flagstaff is still in a drought.

The low water level has the city water department waiting for next spring.

Brad Hill, Director of Utilities for the City of Flagstaff reports that Upper Lake Mary is currently at 23% of its full capacity.

Hill says the 5-year-average at this time of year is 49%.

Lake Mary supplies about half of Flagstaff’s water supply, the other half coming from aquifers.

Hill says the lake isn’t filling because the forests soak up the water.  

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11:53 am
Tue August 14, 2012

A Drought So Severe, Even Cacti Can't Survive

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Mike Corn is a lifelong rancher who's family has been in the Roswell, N.M. area for more than 100 years. The current drought is the worst he's ever seen.
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Cattle and sheep on dry range land just outside Roswell, N.M.
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The historic nationwide drought has resulted in disaster declarations for more than half the counties in America. In the Southwest, parts of New Mexico and the Texas panhandle are in the worst shape.

Few feel the effects of the drought more strongly than cattle ranchers.

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2:29 pm
Mon August 13, 2012

Forecast For Phoenix: Hotter And Hotter

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John Larsala struggles to keep his family cool during the Phoenix summer. The shade trees in his front yard have died because he cannot afford to water them.
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The courtyard of the energy-efficient Devine Legacy apartment building in Central Phoenix acts as a breezeway for the north-south facing complex.
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A place with one of the harshest climates in the Southwest –- Phoenix -- records more days over 100 degrees than any other major city in the country. But climate models predict metro Phoenix, with its population of four million, will get hotter.

Here in John Larsala’s driveway, the view is bleak.

“You see our tree is dead,” Larsala said. “All these trees are dying because I can’t put water on it.”

The grass is dead too. In fact, there is no grass anymore.

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