article_snippet.sent: As for a serious drought: It won't be the last, and surely won't be the worst to come in the remainder of this century.
article_snippet.sent: How a serious drought affects rest of the nation .
article_snippet.sent: I lived in Australia for a year in 2007-08 when Australia was well into a drought that lasted about a dozen years -- and that led to water restrictions in nearly all Australia's major cities.
article_snippet.sent: Though the role of greenhouse gases in that drought wasn't clear either, the hardship nonetheless made Australians much more concerned about climate change than Americans were at the time.
article_snippet.sent: California could have had this drought, and worse, without global warming.
highlights_snippet.sent: California's steps against drought are a preview for rest of U.S. and world .
  