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California drought sends US water agency back to drawing board
2015-07-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: 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 theres no snowpack, theres no water, said Mr. Lessard, a regional manager for the Bureau of Reclamation, the federal agency that built and operates a vast network of 476 dams, 348 reservoirs and 8,116 miles of aqueducts...
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