Important Takeaways:

• New Yorkers have been told to take shorter showers after the city on Monday issued its first drought warning in 22 years after months of little rain.
• New York City officials had already implemented water-conservation protocols when Mayor Eric Adams upgraded the drought warning yesterday.
• Water-saving measures planned for the coming weeks will include washing buses and subway cars less frequently and limiting water use for fountains and golf courses, the mayor said in a press conference on Monday.
• ‘Our city vehicles may look a bit dirtier, and our subways may look a bit dustier, but it’s what we have to do to delay or stave off a more serious drought emergency,’ Adams noted.
• The measure comes after fires broke out across the region in the last few days amid unexpectedly drier-than-usual conditions.
• Last week, a park on the northern tip of Manhattan caught fire, sending smoke billowing across the city – less than a week after a brush fire in Brooklyn´s Prospect Park.
• Meanwhile, New York City’s fire department said it had responded to 229 brush fires from October 29 to November 12.

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