New York Times: Its way past time for California to come to grips with the possibility that its extraordinary water woes are the new normal and essentially the return of the old normal given the states climate history, in which drought has been the rule and the verdant 20th century the exception. In the weekly update to the U.S. Drought Monitor site yesterday, nearly 80 percent of the state was in extreme or exceptional drought conditions. It could well be that atmospheric circulation will shift and the drought,...