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Megadrought Poses 'Existential' Crisis in California and the West
A scorching "thousand-year" drought made worse by climate change is draining reservoirs at an alarming pace, fueling massive wildfires and withering California's crucial Central Valley agriculture economy.
sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
Things are about to get way worse for California. Yeah, they're cutting Arizona and Nevada's share of the Colorado River first because of course California gets special treatment. But even so, California is basically using more water than the river can possibly supply at this point and even California's being forced to sharply curtail water supplies, even to not giving water to farmers they've already paid the state for.