Rondon ends scoring drought to help West Brom secure draw at Burnley.
While it was a much-needed point for Tony Pulis’ side after their recent run, it was hardly a turning point in terms of performance.
Manager rating out of 10 6 — Changes had to be made considering West Brom’s recent run of form but it was disappointing to see both Nacer Chadli and James Morrison out of the starting XI.
Field deserved his opportunity, as did McClean, who has been unfortunate not to see more game time this season.
Players introduced after 70 minutes get no rating) GK Ben Foster, 5 — The England international has won West Brom several points this season but was caught in no man’s lands for Burnley’s equaliser, presenting Sam Vokes with an easy opportunity.
DF Jonny Evans, 6 — Defended well enough without ever doing anything outstanding, withdrawn after half-time with an injury.
Delivery from set pieces was mixed, but added another assist with the corner for Dawson’s goal.
His hard running this season was rewarded with a goal, finishing neatly after a good turn in the box.
Substitutes DF Allan Nyom, 7 — Gave West Brom an extra dimension going forward, and a good crossfield pass to instigate the move for Rondon’s equaliser.
MF James Morrison, 6 — A few neat pieces of play and drifted into some good areas, but never looked like effecting the game too much.

The California drought is officially over, but next could be ‘around the corner’.
“Conservation must remain a way of life.” The governor lifted the drought emergency in all California counties except Fresno, Kings, Tulare and Tuolumne, where emergency drinking water projects will continue to help address diminished groundwater supplies.
“There’s a greater appreciation of just how precious water is,” she said.
“We’ve got to plan for longer droughts.” Cities and water districts throughout the state will be required to continue reporting their water use each month, said the governor’s order, which also bans wasteful practices, such as hosing off sidewalks and running sprinklers when it rains.
The drought strained native fish that migrate up rivers, killed millions of trees, and forced farmers in the country’s leading agricultural state to rely heavily on groundwater, with some tearing out orchards.
Brown declared the drought emergency in 2014, and officials later ordered mandatory conservation for the first time in state history.
Regulators last year relaxed the rules after a rainfall was close to normal.
But monster storms this winter erased nearly all signs of drought, blanketing the Sierra Nevada with deep snow, California’s key water source, and boosting reservoirs.
Atkins said she still received calls from people whose wells were running dry and needed a tank and bottled water.
“In no way is it over,” she said of the drought.

Wettest place in England is ‘bone dry’ amid fears of a summer drought.
But the River Derwent has gone for so long without sufficient rain, its rocky bed is exposed.
It comes amid fears that the country may be subjected to a summer drought, with rivers and reservoirs experiencing dwindling water levels following one of the driest winter in more than 20 years.
The Daily Telegraph reported last week that some homeowners had been told to cut down on water consumption by waiting until their washing machines and dishwashers are fully loaded before running them.
“It is very unusual for this to happen in springtime,” he said.
“Everything is usually under water.
A Met Office spokesman said the area had seen 36 per cent rainfall in April, which is almost two-thirds less rainfall than average.
Temperatures on the west coast of England and Scotland, meanwhile, have been up to 3C higher than normal.
Normally, it is the other way round which brings a lot of rain and wind to the west coast,” he said.
“In the west, it has been warmer than average, whereas London and Lincolnshire have had cool, cloudy and breezier weather.” An Environment Agency spokesman said: “Following a dry winter, some rivers, groundwaters and reservoirs are lower than normal for the time of year.

DAILY DIGEST, weekend edition: Silicon Valley’s mission to save California ag; North Coast lawmakers urge Brown to declare statewide salmon disaster; Fluctuating Feather hurting fish habitat; States move to roll back environmental rules in Trump’s wake; and more ….
; USBR awards funds for fish passage solutions; States move to roll back environmental rules in Trump’s wake; and more … In the news this weekend … Silicon Valley’s mission to save California ag from dying of thirst: “When George McFadden sits at his computer to analyze crop photos, he looks like a doctor pointing out trouble spots on an X-ray.
… ” Read more from the Appeal-Democrat here: Fluctuating Feather hurting fish habitat The state of our dams: “From their homes, San Joaquin County residents cannot see the dozen-plus large dams that stand between them and a mammoth melting snowpack.
“The drought is over, but that doesn’t mean the end of calamity for Northern California.
… ” Read more from the Sacramento Bee here: The drought is over.
USBR awards funds for fish passage solutions: “The US Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) has awarded prizes totaling $20,000 to four submissions as part of its downstream fish passage at tall dams’ prize competition.
… ” Read more from Bay Nature here: Sharks are dying by the hundreds in San Francisco Bay San Joaquin County river levels expected to remain high: “High water levels along rivers and in reservoirs are keeping emergency management teams on alert.
… ” Read more from CBS Sacramento here: San Joaquin County river levels expected to remain high Merced River to start receding in Yosemite, but some flooding still possible: “Minor flooding continued in Yosemite National Park Saturday as the Merced River rose above flood stage in one stretch, the result of melting snow in the Sierra.
… ” Read more from the Fresno Bee here: Merced River to start receding in Yosemite, but some flooding still possible Mammoth snowmelt making rivers so dangerous that ‘if you fall in, you’re done’: “The deaths of five people in two Tulare County rivers in less than a month are prompting officials to warn the public about the dangers of rushing water fed by the heavy snowpack now melting in the Sierra.
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OU’s first round drought could end next year with Brown.
NORMAN—A little more than a week ago at the NFL Draft, the first round went by without an Oklahoma player selected.
It was the fourth consecutive year no OU players went in the first round of the draft, with the last Sooner picked in the first round offensive tackle Lane Johnson in 2013.
The questions that remain about Brown—one of eight returning offensive linemen for the Sooners next season with starting experience—revolve around his footwork and his temperament.
Brown’s footwork continues to improve as he moves into his third season as OU’s starting left tackle.
He’s started 26 games there the last two seasons.
The other issue is one Brown and the Sooners are trying to fine tune without taking away the attributes that make Brown one of the top linemen in college football.
“The one thing you’ve got to be careful of is taking too much away from playing with an edge and playing with passion and you’ve got to play smart,” Bedenbaugh said.
“There’s some of them—the talking ones—you can’t do those things.
That’s what makes him a good player.” If Brown can find that balance, he figures to not only continue giving Sooners quarterback Baker Mayfield some of the best protection around but he also figures to be a first-round pick in next spring’s NFL Draft.

Paper: ‘Western Water and Climate Change’.
(2015), ‘Western Water and Climate Change’ Ecological Applications, 25: 2069–2093.
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Projections are for continued and, likely, increased warming trends across the region, with a near certainty of continuing changes in seasonality of snowmelt and streamflows, and a strong potential for attendant increases in evaporative demands.
Projections of future precipitation are less conclusive, although likely the northern- most West will see precipitation increases while the southernmost West sees declines.
However, most of the region lies in a broad area where some climate models project precipitation increases while others project declines, so that only increases in precipitation uncertainties can be projected with any confidence.
The Colorado River is a system in which overuse and growing demands are projected to be even more challenging than climate-change-induced flow reductions.
Erratum Dettinger et al. were alerted to an error in their paper published in the December 2015 issue (M. D. Dettinger, B. Udall, and A. Georgakakos.
Western water and climate change.
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A drama is presently unfolding in the coastal city of Cape Town, South Africa, and maritime technology could offer a solution here and in other cities around the world.
Maritime Water Tankers During such times, converted tanker ships could carry potable water from a region of generous rainfall to a drought-stricken region.
Airborne kite sails are one of the technologies being used to assist in providing ship propulsion along routes where trade winds blow parallel to sailing direction.
A desalination ship could include both reverse-osmosis-membrane technology as well as thermal desalination technology to provide potable water.
Either a short-distance water pipeline would connect the desalination ship to the shore, or a water tanker ship would shuttle potable water from offshore desalination ship to shore-based water tanks.
Wind energy ships could use rotary turbines or airborne sails to directly drive water pumps that could produce sufficient pressure to sustain operation of reverse-osmosis desalination technology.
Small-scale, ship-based nuclear power could also provide energy for seawater desalination.
Modern day drought reduces hydroelectric power generation.
During modern drought periods, maritime based technology can achieve much in terms of providing temporary relief to drought-stricken coastal regions.
Maritime based technology can provide electric power and potable water on a seasonal basis to many locations around the world, thereby making such technology viable.

A new study showing dryness of the atmosphere affects U.S. grassland productivity more than rainfall could have important implications for predicting how plants will respond to warming climate conditions.
Published online March 6 in the journal Nature Geoscience, the study conducted by scientists at Stanford University and Columbia University looked at 33 years of climate and vegetation satellite data to determine how plants regulate water and carbon dioxide under dry conditions.
The study’s large-scale methods to understand plant behavior could be used to improve predictive models of how environments will respond to droughts, which are expected to intensify in the 21st century.
"Just looking at changes in precipitation isn’t going to tell you the whole story," said lead author Alexandra Konings, an assistant professor of Earth System Science in Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences (Stanford Earth).
When its stomata are open, a plant can take up CO2 from the atmosphere to make energy but risks losing water in dry conditions.
The strategy different plants use — whether to risk drying out in order to keep taking up carbon, or to close up and stop growing — affects their productivity.
Variability in drought response Using statistical analysis, the researchers separated out the effect of the plants’ behavior from the impacts of regional conditions, such as differences in precipitation or temperature.
Understanding how plant stomata respond to changes in the atmosphere is especially important in U.S. grasslands, which are a predominant source of carbon uptake, or storage of carbon from the atmosphere.
Behavioral differences Analysis shows grasslands that respond to drought by keeping their stomata open (anisohydric behavior) are more sensitive to dryness of the atmosphere than those that close their stomata and stop growth to save water (isohydric behavior).
While previous methods for understanding drought response entailed on-the-ground measurements, the new metric enables researchers to measure these patterns across the globe.

Comments (2) There are fears Cornwall could be on course for drought following one of the driest winters on record and with reservoir levels lower than the last year one was declared.
According to figures published by South West Water, the two of the three reservoirs for Cornwall, Colliford and Roadford, are down to 84% and 75% full respectively.
Stithians is fairing better at 95% full, but overall the five main reservoirs for the Westcountry are at around 85% capacity while the same week last year was at 96% capacity.
South West Water said levels were not unusual for the time of year and the company was "well placed" to cope with lower rainfall and higher demand expected in the summer.
However, the Met Office has this week revealed that it was the third driest winter on record and long range forecasts say the mild, dry weather is set to continue.
Read more: Minister promises A30 improvements, but won’t say when A spokesman for the National Farmers Union in the South West said it was monitoring the situation.
A 30-day forecast by the Met Office suggests that there will be mainly dry settled conditions with some warm temperatures developing this month.
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Read more: Why Cornwall Live was banned from filming the Prime Minister’s visit to a Helston factory Stithians is below the level of last year, but above that of the 1995 drought year.
She said: "Current reservoir levels are not unusual for the time of year but reflect the dry weather we have experienced over the last six months.

One kind of drought ends for California farms, but another — of immigrants to work in the fields — now looms.
View photosMore FIREBAUGH, Calif. — There were moments when Joe Del Bosque wondered if his farm could survive.
For six long years, Del Bosque, the son of migrant farmworkers who has worked the land his entire life, watched as his 2,000-acre farm here in California’s Central Valley slowly dried up, the victim of a near-biblical drought that many likened to a modern version of the Dust Bowl, when every single drop of water was a precious commodity.
It didn’t happen, but the visit made Del Bosque the face of a drought that threatened to destroy farming in a region that provides half the nation’s fruit and vegetables.
Late last year, all over California, it began to rain, and in the Sierra Nevada, it began to snow — historic storms that replenished streams and reservoirs that supply water for much of the state.
“Now we have the water we need,” Del Bosque said on a recent afternoon as he walked a reporter through a melon field he was getting ready to plant.
“But now I don’t know if we have the people we need to pick the crops.” President Trump’s pledge to crack down on illegal immigration has sent chills through the Central Valley, where farmers like Del Bosque rely heavily on migrant farm labor to plant, tend and pick their crops.
Though there’s no complete tally, a recent Department of Agriculture study estimated that nearly 60 percent of California’s farm laborers are “unauthorized” to work in the U.S. — a number that has steadily increased over the years as farmers have struggled to find those willing to do the jobs.
“Ten years ago, people would just show up and ask for work.
There’s not enough people, and there’s lots of competition, not just from farmers here but from people on the coast like Salinas and Watsonville, who are coming over to try and hire our workers because they can’t find people there.”