The S.C. Department of Natural Resources is convening state agency representatives from the Drought Response Committee for a meeting at 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 8 in Room 335 (board room) of the Rembert C. Dennis Building, 1000 Assembly St. in Columbia.

The purpose of the meeting will be to discuss continuing dry conditions throughout the state. The full committee last met Feb. 23 in Columbia to downgrade the Savannah Basin from the "moderate" category to "incipient."

For more information about drought, visit the Office of State Climatology or contact State Climatologist Hope Mizzell at (803) 734-9100 in Columbia.

Image: The Savannah River forms in Lake Hartwell with the confluence of the Seneca and the Tugaloo Rivers. It drains a watershed of 10,577 square miles in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina and flows 300 miles through forests, agricultural lands, large artificial impoundments, and swamps before emptying into the Atlantic near Savannah.