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New California water plan in the works as state braces for ‘hotter, drier’ future

THERE ONCE WAS A TIME when heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada meant California could rest assured. There would be enough water stored in the slowly melting snowpack to last through another summer, another fire season, another harvest.  In recent years, as temperatures have risen, Mother Nature’s storage system is failing. Snow turns to rain […]

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