The heat wave swept the western United States!California is urgent to use telegartics, or suspend power supply to some families and enterprises, and Oregon is facing extreme fire risks

According to CCTV News, the western United States has continued to encounter extreme high temperature this summer. Recently, the highest temperature in California for many days has exceeded 40 degrees Celsius for many consecutive days, which seriously affects the lives of local residents and has also a heavy burden on local power supply.

With extreme high -temperature weather swept the western region of the United States, California experienced the worst heat wave on the 6th. The weather forecast shows that the entire California and the west of the United States set a series of highest temperature records that day. Among them, the center of Sacraono reached 47 degrees Celsius, breaking the historical record of 45 degrees Celsius in 1925. Stockon has reached 46 degrees Celsius, tied the city's highest record. The highest temperature of San Francisco also exceeded 40 degrees Celsius. Accompanied by the heat wave is the test of the California power system.

CCTV reporter Xu Tao: The continuous high temperature and the invasion of heat waves have seriously affected the lives of the western people. On September 7, local time, California's power grid operator released a third -level energy emergency alert, which strongly urged residents to reduce energy in high temperature weather.

California Governor Gavin Newson: We are losing power, and severe drought means a reduction in power. In terms of (electricity) supply, we have been challenged by these extreme situations; in terms of demand, it is not surprising that people are lowering the air conditioning temperature and understanding that people are trying to escape the heat.

As of the 9th, the third -level energy emergency alert was still effective in California. Power grid operators demanded that residents and enterprises have reduced electricity between 16:00 local time. At the same time, they stated that they did not rule out that in order to prevent fires in the next few days, some families and enterprises suspended power supply. The US Energy Information Administration stated in its short -term energy outlook report that due to the increase in economic activities and the influence of high temperature in summer, the power consumption of the United States this year will reach the highest level of history.

The continuous high temperature not only puts pressure on the power system in the west of the United States, but also severely reduced the water level of the Water supply pulse of the Western West. The water level from the Madei Lake in the Colorado River has fallen to the lowest level of history. Recently, CCTV reporters went to Made Lake for field visits.

CCTV reporter Xu Tao: This is the largest reservoir in the United States, 7 states in the western United States, and the water supply in northern Mexico. However, the continuous high temperature and drought since entering the summer have continued to decline in the water level of Lake Made. The earliest water removal facility of Lake Made Lake not far behind me was exposed to the outside of the water level completely.

This water removal facility was built in the middle of the 20th century, and droughts completely naked these facilities such as water pipelines on the lake. Experts said that in the next two years, the water level of Lake Made may continue to decline. Officials of the Nanda Water Affairs Bureau also stated in an event in August that they were not optimistic about the future.

Corbie Pregrinino, deputy general manager of the Water Affairs Bureau of the United States: We are almost sure that we will be in a secondary water shortage state next year, which will lead to the reduction of additional water supply in the community.

The U.S. government has announced that the Colorado River will begin to enter the secondary water shortage state from January next year. Therefore, it will further reduce the use of water resources of the Corpoado River in each state. Among them, the water use of Alezona will decrease by 21%, and Nevada will reduce 8%. Water storage comes from Lake Made in the Colorado River. 75%of the water supply is used for agricultural irrigation. The decline in its water level will naturally bring many difficulties to agricultural production in the west.

Richard Steg, a researcher at the University of Columbia Lammont-Doliti Earth Observation Research Institute: Very serious climate change has led to the current water use of the western region. Therefore, people are trying to try to adjust the amount of agricultural water consumption in the west. It is necessary to make a lot of adjustment to all water use to solve how the western region continues to develop without water supply and continue to become a major place for food supply.

The tourism industry of Made Lake also suffered a lot of blows. In early September, the small holiday should be the peak period for local people to travel, but due to the low water level, many larger ships could not sail. Few tourists who came to Made Lake for vacation. Local residents say that Lake Midd is now different from the past.

In California in the United States, droughts have led to reduced production of natural forage, and the price of fertilizers, fuel and other materials have risen, making many pastures facing operating difficulties.

Gim Rickt's family ranch is located in the northern part of California. The continuous high temperature and drought this summer have a huge impact on his pasture. In order to maintain the operation of the ranch, he had to sell the Mavericks who had not arrived in the column in advance.

California Ranch owner Jim Rickt: We are trying to protect the livestock, but the price of the feed has been doubled than in the past. (I) Selling some cows, we sold about 200 cows in advance this spring because I have no choice.

Gim Rickt's situation represents the status quo of many Western Rancies. According to statistics from livestock auction companies, the number of local livestock columns has been reduced by 75%in the past two months.

Extreme weather has caused these pastures, especially family pastures. As of now, these loser ranch owners have not received any aid from the US federal government. According to the Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) local time reported on September 10th, most parts of Oregon are in the risk of extreme fires due to multiple fires, and multiple regions have been ordered to evacuate, and the electricity of thousands of residents has been cut off.

Fire officials said on the same day that the "Double Creek Fire" caused by lightning has been burned more than 147,000 acres of land in the northeast of Oregon, and the fire has been controlled by 15%. In addition, the "Cedar Creek Fire", which occurred in the forest in East Ryan County in western Oregon, is also accelerating the spread. The Lane County Sheriff's Office issued an evacuation order on the evening of the 9th.

It is reported that Kate Brown, governor of Oregon, announced on the 9th that the state entered the fire in the emergency of the fire to release the resource to respond to many fires focusing on the "Cedar Fire".

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