{"id":2296,"date":"2022-02-23T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/wyden-merkley-western-colleagues-call-for-megadrought-emergency-relief\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:05:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:05:16","slug":"wyden-merkley-western-colleagues-call-for-megadrought-emergency-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wyden-merkley-western-colleagues-call-for-megadrought-emergency-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyden, Merkley, colegas occidentales piden ayuda de emergencia para mega sequ\u00edas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wordsection1\"><b><i>Washington DC<\/i><\/b> &ndash; U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley are joining Western colleagues in calling on Senate leadership to include $616 million in emergency drought funding and agricultural assistance in the omnibus appropriations bill as the West continues to suffer from <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/climate-science-west-megadrought-f02449c2db4f0ebeb1557bb39504c62d\">the worst megadrought in more than 1200 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"wordsection1\"><b>&ldquo;The Colorado River, the lifeblood of seven western states, could lose 29 percent of its flow by the 2050s and 55 percent by 2100, and federal assistance is essential to adapt to the dramatically lower flows,&rdquo; <\/b>Wyden y Merkley escribieron.<b> &ldquo;Many disadvantaged and tribal communities across the West are simply running out of water to drink&hellip; Communities, such as the Klamath Basin, desperately need help to avoid an economic calamity.&rdquo;<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"wordsection1\">The letter was led by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. Alongside Wyden and Merkley, the letter was joined by U.S. Sens. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wordsection1\">El texto completo de la carta es <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feinstein.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?a=files.serve&amp;File_id=917B0502-1551-4895-A606-7ED24F1DA214\">aqu\u00ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Una versi\u00f3n web de este comunicado es <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyden.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/-wyden-merkley-western-colleagues-call-for-megadrought-emergency-relief\">aqu\u00ed<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. &ndash; U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley are joining Western colleagues in calling on Senate leadership to include $616 million in emergency drought funding and agricultural assistance in the omnibus appropriations bill as the West continues to suffer from the worst megadrought in more than 1200 years. &ldquo;The Colorado River, the lifeblood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wyden, Merkley, Western Colleagues Call for Megadrought Emergency Relief - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wyden-merkley-western-colleagues-call-for-megadrought-emergency-relief\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wyden, Merkley, Western Colleagues Call for Megadrought Emergency Relief - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Washington, D.C. &ndash; 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