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OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Each year Lake Oroville helps water a quarter of the nation’s...

OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Each year Lake Oroville helps water a quarter of the nation’s crops, sustain endangered salmon beneath its massive earthen dam and anchor the tourism economy of a Northern California county that must rebuild seemingly every year after unrelenting wildfires.

Drought ravages California's water reservoirs ahead of hot summer By ADAM BEAM Lake Oroville starts June at drastically low levels The low water levels are guaranteed to impact summer recreational boating, along with farms in California who rely on water outflows from the lake. OROVILLE, Calif. - Each year Lake Oroville helps water a quarter of the nation’s crops, sustain endangered salmon beneath its massive earthen dam and anchor the tourism economy of a Northern California county that must rebuild seemingly every year after unrelenting wildfires. But now the mighty lake — a linchpin in...

Reservoirs have suffered from a lack of melted snow from the Sierra Nevada The snowpack disappeared two months early due to warm weather and lack of snow Lake Oroville, which helps water a quarter of US crops, could fall below 640 feet by late August If that happens, state officials will have to shut down a major power plant for only the second time in history Gov. Gavin Newsom has expanded a drought warning to 41 counties, home to 30 percent of the state's population The governor blamed climate change and urged residents to step up 'their efforts to save water'