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California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he may impose mandatory water restrictions if people don't start using less as a drought drags on.

Southern California mostly ducked the high temperatures that boiled much of the country in September. Federal officials said it was the seventh warmest September in the U.S. in nearly 130 years.

San Diego was excluded from recent water restrictions imposed on much of Southern California.

"We are asking San Diegans to take these steps now, so we can help avoid a more dire situation in the near future."

Here's a look at how Western cities have prepared for a future with less water.

Absent a heavy dose of April and May showers the state’s drought will deepen and that could lead to stricter rules on water use and another devastating wildfire season.

In addition to generating cleaner electricity, covered canals have the added benefit of reducing evaporation in arid locations.

Water departments had the option to choose between an outdoor watering limit of one day per week or by volume of water used.

The fires have been burning with the highest intensity around the city of Viña del Mar, where a famous botanical garden founded in 1931 was destroyed by the flames on Sunday.

A new study counts the human health costs from increasingly costly and dangerous extreme weather in the U.S.