Some New Yorkers are sounding the fire 🚨 alarm filling the driest lackluster month of choke October.
According to published reports, New York City agencies are being ordered to prepare water conservation plans and residents urged to “conserve every drop possible” amid a drought watch following a historically dry October.
“By starting to save water now, we’re doing everything we can to make sure that we can water our parks and fill our pools come summer, and to stave off a more serious drought emergency,” Mayor Eric Adams said in an announcement on X Saturday morning.
October saw the second longest rainless streak in the city’s recorded history, with only .81 inches of rain falling compared to an average of about 3.81 inches, officials said.
3Mayor Adams and city Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Rohit T. Aggarwala issued a citywide drought watch Saturday amid a historic lack of precipitation.
The city’s water supply serves 9.8 million New Yorkers