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California farms dried up a river for months. Nobody stopped them

Water officials didn’t find out the Merced had gone dry until after the fact, raising questions about the state’s ability to manage supplies during droughts.
Susannah Meadows: What I saw in Yosemite was devastating
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Susannah Meadows: What I saw in Yosemite was devastating

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Water wars head upstream as California considers cutbacks for senior Central Valley irrigation districts
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Water wars head upstream as California considers cutbacks for senior Central Valley irrigation districts

More than two decades after Los Angeles was forced to cut historic water diversions to protect California’s natural resources, the state is poised to impose similar restrictions on San Francisco and some of the Central Valley’s oldest irrigation districts.
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