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Tag: perfect drought

Posted inSustainability

‘Perfect droughts’ were common in the past, researchers say, and could get worse

by Adnan Alam Feb 7, 2020

PHOENIX – A “perfect drought” happens when all of a region’s major sources of water experience drought at the same time, which is what California experienced from 2012 to 2015. A new University of Arizona study shows that such droughts have occurred an average six times a century for the past 600 years, and it […]

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