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Water Bonds Shrivel California Sees Driest Year
2014-01-03 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The driest year on record for Los Angeles and San Francisco is threatening water supplies to the worlds most productive agricultural region and almost doubling borrowing costs on some bonds issued by California water agencies. Los Angeles, which normally gets almost 15 inches (38 centimeters) of rain a year, got less than 4 inches in 2013, according to the National Weather Service. San Francisco, where 22 inches is typical, got 6. Severe or extreme drought grips 85 percent of California, a federal...
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