Blog: Is California Prepared for Another Dry Year? It Depends…
From the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) staff Switchboard blog, in a post by Doug Obegi:
“Since 2013 has, so far, been one of the driest years on record, there was some irony that the State [Department of Water Resources] announced an initial 5% allocation during the first storm of the season. The last time the state announced an initial 5% allocation (for 2010) the final allocation was 50%. So while there’s a 90% chance that the allocation will go up, it depends almost entirely on weather in the next few months.”
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