From East and West of the US come these ominous water stories.

In Florida:

South Florida’s Strictest Water Rationing Ever

For the first time in the agency’s history, the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) declared last week an extreme District-wide water shortage and ordered the strictest rationing ever across South Florida.

”We’re not in any old drought. We’re in what I like to call the biblical drought. This is an enormous state of emergency.”
-Shannon Estenoz, a member of the South Florida Water Management District’s governing board

”We are facing Armageddon. I think we are going to see massive crop losses we have never seen before.”
-Malcolm ”Bubba” Wade, a board member and vice president of U.S. Sugar Corp., one of the region’s largest growers.

In California:

L.A. must dump water from two reservoirs

In the midst of a drought, Los Angeles officials announced Friday that 600 million gallons of water must be dumped from two reservoirs that supply a swath of the city because an unexpected chemical reaction rendered it undrinkable.