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Why our parents and grandparents generation built a system of reservoirs and canals to store water to make california's arid land more first till. there is another drought, man made one they say. under environmental pressure the state diverted millions of gallons of freshwater in the ocean to preserve the delta smelt fish and salmon. republicans say that diversion created tremendous heartship for those in california's agricultural heartland. >> what they don't like to talk about three years ago we had one of the wettest years in the last 30 years. but we let all that water run out to the ocean...

The broadcast. this is the flood risk potential issued by noaa yesterday, highlighting the fact that about a third of the country, everything in orange and bright red, is under the risk of seeing flooding as we get in through the spring snow melt. we've had a lot of rain across the south, a lot of fall rains across the north and followed by a lot of winter snow, in some cases record breaking, and the cold air locking in all that snow. as we start to unwind that, warm the atmosphere up and melt the snow, these are the areas where we think we're going to see some above-average flood runoff. i'll...