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Drought-Stricken California Exempts Big Oil and Big Ag from Mandatory Restrictions
2015-04-02 19:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The April 1 snowpack assessment in California, which set an all-time record for lowest snowpack levels in the states history, finally spurred Governor Browns office to issue an executive order to residents and non-agricultural businesses to cut water use by 25 percent in the first mandatory statewide reduction in the states history. But some groups have been exempted from the water restrictions, specifically big agriculture, which uses about 80 percent of Californias water, and oil companies....
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