Continuing Drought Prompts Florida Officials to Plan for Worst-Case Scenarios.

Publication: The Miami Herald (Miami, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

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Mar. 23--TALLAHASSEE, Fla.--Florida's prolonged drought has state and federal emergency management officials huddling here today to contemplate worst-case scenarios, including a plan to bring in portable water desalination plants to supply drinking water if conditions don't improve.

Gov. Jeb Bush and Joe Allbaugh, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, will open the Florida Drought Emergency Partnership meeting at the state Emergency Operations Center.

State officials, who have never dealt with a drought this severe, hope to develop an emergency plan from the daylong meeting, as well as determine how to tap the federal government for assistance.

"If this were a hurricane bearing down in six days,...

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