Drought in California

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  Drought Sends U.S. Water Agency Back to Drawing Board

  The New York Times - By Coral Davenport

  FOLSOM, Calif. — Drew Lessard stood on top of Folsom Dam and gazed at the Sierra Nevada, which in late spring usually gushes enough melting snow into the reservoir to provide water for a million people. But the mountains were bare, and the snowpack to date remains the lowest on measured record. “If …

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  Troubled Delta System Is California’s Water Battleground

  The New York Times - By Erica Goode

  BYRON, Calif. — Fighting over water is a tradition in California, but nowhere are the lines of dispute more sharply drawn than here in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a 720,000-acre network of islands and canals that is the hub of the state’s water system. Giant pumps pull in water flowing to the …

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  Dry Days Bring Ferocious Start to Fire Season

  The New York Times - By Fernanda Santos

  WALLA WALLA, Wash. — Another summer of record-breaking drought and heat has seized the West, setting off costly and destructive wildfires from Southern California, where a single blaze burned more than 30,000 acres of national forest east of Los Angeles, to Montana, where a fast-moving fire in …

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  Brown’s Arid California, Thanks Partly to His Father

  The New York Times - By Adam Nagourney

  LOS ANGELES — When Edmund G. Brown Sr. was governor of California, people were moving in at a pace of 1,000 a day. With a jubilant Mr. Brown officiating, California commemorated the moment it became the nation’s largest state, in 1962, with a church-bell-ringing, four-day celebration. He was the …

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  Water Pricing in Two Thirsty Cities: In One, Guzzlers Pay More, and Use Less

  The New York Times - By Nelson D. Schwartz

  FRESNO, Calif. — When residents of this parched California city opened their water bills for April, they got what Mayor Ashley Swearengin called “a shock to the system.” The city had imposed a long-delayed, modest rate increase — less than the cost of one medium latte from Starbucks for the typical …

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  Drought Frames Economic Divide of Californians

  The New York Times - By Adam Nagourney and Jack Healy

  COMPTON, Calif. — Alysia Thomas, a stay-at-home mother in this working-class city, tells her children to skip a bath on days when they do not play outside; that holds down the water bill. Lillian Barrera, a housekeeper who travels 25 miles to clean homes in Beverly Hills, serves dinner to her …