Editorial: Drought Should Revive Water Conservation
From The Sacramento Bee:
“People finally are uttering the D-word. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Jim Costa want Gov. Jerry Brown to declare a state drought emergency. The first 10 months of 2013 were the driest on record in California, going back to 1895, according to the National Climatic Data Center.
“That record follows two years of dry conditions, so several reservoirs are now at less than 40 percent of capacity, including Shasta and Oroville at 37 percent, and Folsom at 21 percent.”
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