Exclusive: Experts say the term 'drought' may be insufficient to capture what is happening in the West
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Bureau of Reclamation chief Camille Touton told CNN the agency is managing the nation's water resources in an uncertain, unprecedented time.
"When [the system] was built 100 years ago, you could look outside your window if you're in Colorado and see snow, and know that that's your reservoir for the spring," Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Touton told CNN in an exclusive interview. "It's not like that anymore. What you're seeing there is just a completely different way in which the system is managed."
Winter weather conditions in the West have been, in a word, inconsistent.
President Joe Biden has given permission to Ukraine to strike inside Russian territory with American munitions, though he has restricted their use so Kyiv can only hit targets over the border close to Kharkiv after Russia made significant advances around the city in the northeastern part of the country close to the Russian border, two US officials told CNN.