SACRAMENTO, Calif.: Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday expanded a drought emergency declaration to a large swath of the nation’s most populated state amid acute water supply shortages” in northern and central parts of California.
The declaration now covers 41 of 58 counties, covering 30% of California’s nearly 40 million people.
It comes as Newsom prepares to propose more spending on both short- and long-term responses to dry conditions. The U.S. Drought Monitor shows most of the state and a huge swath of the American West is in extensive drought.
The governor last month had declared an emergency in just two counties north of San Francisco Mendocino and Sonoma.
The expanded declaration includes the counties in the Klamath River, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and Tulare Lake watersheds across much of the northern and central parts of the state.
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