Everywhere is California now
State leaders on the Eastern Seaboard are scrambling to deal with something California officials know all too well — drought and fire. While the unusual dry spell fueling wildfires in New York and New Jersey is only expected to get worse, some California officials hope the moment can bring attention to issues long considered niche to the West. … Californians, long accustomed to periods of climate-driven megadrought, see an opportunity to help other states respond. On the one hand, expanding drought fuels tensions over water, as evidenced most obviously in the fierce competition between the seven Colorado River states that remain at an impasse over how to share the shrinking river.
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