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With Dry Taps and Toilets, California Drought Turns Desperate


With Dry Taps and Toilets California Drought Turns Desperate NYTimes com

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/03/us/cal...

Now in its third year, the state’s record-breaking drought is being felt in many ways: vanishing lakes and rivers, lost agricultural jobs, fallowed farmland, rising water bills, suburban yards gone brown. But nowhere is the situation as dire as in East Porterville, a small rural community in Tulare County where life’s daily routines have been completely upended by the drying of wells and, in turn, the disappearance of tap water.

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I do dislike seeing sprinklers still watering grass all around Silicon Valley. 

Yes, why have Silicon Valley lawn owners not curtailed their sprinkling at all??

rich jerks?

Some of them aren't even rich. :)

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