Without congressionally approved funding, public media stations say communities will be left with aging infrastructure amid growing risks from extreme weather.
Courtesy of the Imperial Irrigation District
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California is in a state of emergency as a brutal heat wave brings the threat of power outages and wildfires. -
More of the same searing conditions are in store through the Labor Day weekend, with excessive-heat warnings in place into the next workweek. -
The call for conservation between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. came as excessive-heat warnings expanded to all of Southern California and up into the Central Valley, and were predicted to spread into Northern California later in the week. -
The extreme heat and low humidity could create elevated fire weather conditions as well, NWS forecasters said. -
Some 33 million people are affected by this summer's floods — the result of what U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres calls a "monsoon on steroids." He calls the flooding a "climate catastrophe." -
California is facing a prolonged late-summer heat wave this week, with widespread triple-digit temperatures starting in the south and spreading northward. -
A flood watch is in effect in parts of San Diego County starting at noon Wednesday. -
It's been one year since a flood tore through Waverly, Tenn., and killed 20 people. There's been lots of effort to rebuild, but it's still unclear if the town will ever be the same. -
Seasonally warm mid-summer weather was predicted to prevail, along with elevated humidity.
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The flood watch is in effect until Tuesday evening in the San Diego mountains and deserts.
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