WASHINGTON – Arizona and other western states just lived through the driest year in more than a century, with no drought relief in sight in the near future, experts told a House panel this past week.
The period from last April to this March was the driest in the past 126 years for Arizona and other western states, witnesses said. It caps a two-decade stretch that was the driest in more than 100 years that records have been kept – and one of the driest in the past 1,200 years based on paleohydrology…
