Earlier this spring, New Hampshire saw 15 straight weekends of rain. That seems like a distant mirage these days.

As of this week, almost 90% of the state is in a moderate drought.

That’s a stark contrast to just a couple of months ago, when most of the state was three or four inches above normal for precipitation, said Ted Diers, assistant director of the water division at New Hampshire’s Department of Environmental Services.

“Now, parts of the state are three or four inches below normal for the year,” he said. “That's a pretty dramatic change in a pretty short period of time. And you see that now across surface waters, groundwater, soil conditions, all of that are reflective of heading into a significant drought.”

And as climate change makes summers hotter and rain events more in

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