Puerto Rican Drought Master List

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Basic overview of whats going on:

• Puerto Rico is going through the worst drought it has ever gone through since 1994, water is being rationed and turned off for 3 days at a time in some parts, school days have been cut short, and farms are being destroyed by it. And yet even though Puerto Rico is a US Territory the US has done absolutely nothing to help. 
  

A longer, more indepth overview by tumblr used hurtbyjohnnycash can be found here (I highly reccommend you read this)

Even more articles on the matter:

• http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/15/us/in-drought-puerto-rico-rations-water-setting-off-a-collection-frenzy.html
  
• http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/06/22/drought_in_puerto_rico_it_s_much_worse_than_california.html
  
• http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/08/10/3689223/as-puerto-rico-runs-out-of-cash-it-is-also-running-out-of-water/
  

What you can do to help:

• Petition for the US to send aid
  
• Petition for the US to send shipborne desalinization plants
  
• Spread posts like this one, the overview linked above, and this one
  

If you are not a US resident and still want to sign these petitions simply google “US zipcodes” choose one and slap it in the zipcode box

Thank you and please please please spread this!