droughts

Los Angeles will soon begin building a $740-million project to transform wastewater into purified drinking water in the San Fernando Valley, expanding the city’s local water supply in an effort to prepare for worsening droughts compounded by climate change.

Researchers at UCLA’s Luskin Center for Innovation examined about 100,000 potential scenarios, including shortages caused by droughts or major earthquakes that could rupture aqueducts and cut off outside supplies.

But these monthslong droughts in the Northeast will continue to occur.

Climate models predict that they will be relatively short compared with the multiyear Western-style megadroughts, but the Northeast must prepare for more droughts, like the one we’re in now, that are hotter and longer than before.

There were turnovers galore, long scoring droughts and more struggles making shots from long range.