Cook recalled that when the drought eased off briefly in 2012, dam workers wondered whether they needed to install the new equipment.
The drought eased up, and these Californians turned on the spigot.
And in Santa Barbara, the city is reactivating a $34 million facility that it built during a drought in the early 1990s — only to put it into mothballs when the drought eased.
Unless conservation increases or the drought eases, Mr. Norman warned that by late summer, the Northwest's era of cheap power could come to a sudden and painfully expensive end.
Heavy rains and snow have recently brought some hope to the parched states of Iowa, Minnesota and Missouri, where the drought is easing.
The drought is easing, though, and it will come to an end in March, 2013, when a retrospective exhibition of Andre's work opens at the Dia Art Foundation museum, in Beacon, New York, and then travels to a number of as yet unnamed museums here and in Europe.
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The less stringent conditions adopted by MWD's board call for continued conservation, but also offer the latest signal that California's multiyear drought is easing.
A seven-year drought has eased, the wheat heads are big and bursting, and the bluffs along the river have ripened to an unfamiliar velvety green.
It was later reported that a local power company had released millions of gallons of water into the river during a drought to ease Mr. Gore's trip.
