West Coast drought could doom salmon

摘要

Water wars: Words like "biblical" and "megadrought" are being used to describe the hellishly hot and dry conditions that threaten salmon and are reigniting tensions between water interests.As of late June, almost all of the West Coast was in drought, with California and southern Oregon dealing with the worst of it.California's long history of "water wars" could vault to a new and unprecedented scale, with federal regulators balancing out the consequences of crop and fishery disasters.It's a familiar scenario. At the 2014 peak of the last drought phase, dangerously high water temperatures destroyed Sacramento River system fall-run Chinook eggs, leading to low abundance three years later.