4.16.23 Post: Our first post!

by Sabine

Welcome to our first blog post! Daanya and I wanted to start right off with the information. If you want an introduction for us, one of us can post it after this gets out. If you can't wait to read it, it's on the Monday Message if you get those.

In short, I am a freshman and Daanya is a junior and we are a part of a group called the EnviroLiteracy Taskforce. ELT is a group of students from 9th-12th grade who want to get more on climate change and environmental issues, into the San Diego Unified School District's schools. Each school in the group has chosen a topic to address.

The topic that the two of us chose was the California drought. A drought is a prolonged period of time when a certain area of land gets little to no precipitation. That area also experiences desert-like conditions like dry weather and high temperatures. Droughts can lead to things like a decrease in crop productions for farmers and effects of droughts can lead to complications that can sometimes cause death.

You might be a little confused because this rainy season in 2022-2023 was pretty rainy for California. You'd be right in assuming that this made our drought situation better, but that doesn't mean that the drought is over. Yes, we may have gotten a lot of rain, but that water isn't going to last forever. There are periods of dry weather and there are periods of rainy weather.

With that being said, that also doesn't mean you can let up on conserving water. The California drought is still a problem and it's going to take a lot more than just one rainy season to "end the drought".

On a completely different note, concerning the blog, we will hopefully be posting every other week on Mondays. We hope to do more events in the future, but for right now, we aren't doing any public events.

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