The drought situation is also focusing increased attention on long-term water supplies, always a difficult issue in California and throughout the arid but rapidly growing West.

Update on daily streamflow conditions and drought situation in New Jersey.

But some customers, who have a real drought situation, have been coming in with plants that have dried out because they didn't water enough.

Drought was an alarming problem in 2008; however, the drought situation slightly improved in 2009.

This condition coupled with high temperatures cause drought situation in many years affecting the vegetation.

"It is an extremely severe drought situation," he said.

Moreover, the rains themselves do not necessarily indicate that the long-term drought situation has changed.

A similar drought situation also occurred in late 2008.

Last summer, we had some drought situations.

Kalahandi hits the headlines in newspapers for the repeated drought situation that has broken the economic backbone of the cultivators.