Obama Seeks More Coordination on Dealing with Drought
President Barack Obama on Monday directed the federal government to come up with a less reactionary and more long-term strategy for dealing with drought.
About 12.5 percent of the continental U.S. was experiencing drought as of mid-March, said Alice Hill, a key Obama aide on this issue.That translates into more than 39 million people, or about one-eighth of the U.S. population, living with drought in the lower 48 states, mostly in the West and with much of California suffering through its fifth year of dryness.
