Arizona's climate crisis and what could be done

The Arizona cliché "it's a dry heat" resonates for a reason.
The temperature has been in triple digits for weeks, there are
wildfires raging all over the state, the lakes are too low to
utilize for the fires, and there's no rain in sight. It's always
hot and dry with little rain in Arizona, but the water crisis is
reaching a dire point. Since the turn of the century, Arizona
and the West have been in one of the biggest "megadroughts" of the
last 1200 years. And it’s being revved up by human caused heating.
This week on The Gaggle: An Arizona politics podcast,
hosts Yvonne Wingett-Sanchez and Ronald J. Hansen talk with
Kathy Jacobs to get a sense of what can be done and how bad the
situation is really. Kathy is the director of the Center for
Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions at the University of
Arizona. Her research focuses on water policy, climate change
adaptation and drought planning among others. Learn more about your
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