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Approximately three quarters of all produce consumed in Canada is imported, and California supplies a major chunk of that. So Canadians feel it when California is hammered by drought, flooding and other weather extremes.

Approximately three quarters of all produce consumed in Canada is imported, and California supplies a major chunk of that. So Canadians feel it when California is hammered by drought, flooding and other weather extremes.

Hetch Hetchy, alternately seen as a “marvel of engineering” and an abomination of nature, has stored water for San Francisco for a century. Here’s whats next.

For the first time since 2006, the state’s major water conveyance system will deliver all the water it has been asked to supply.

Just how "over" is the drought, and how unusual has this season of rain really been? Here are seven charts to help with the answers.

The state’s April snow measurements, which record the peak accumulation, will show more than 235% of average snowpack — the most in 70 years.

Why there’s still one major California reservoir where water levels are low, even after all the rain.

After a series of winter storms replenished California’s water sources, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the state will no longer ask people to cut their water use by 15%. He was careful, however, not to say the drought is over.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom ended some of the state’s water restrictions on Friday because a winter of relentless rain and snow has replenished the state’s reservoirs.

Three years of little rain or snow in California had depleted reservoirs to the point the state couldnt generate electricity from hydroelectric power plants.