Amid Drought, Here's Where California Really Uses Its Water
As it endures a historic drought, the state is considering imposing $500-a-day fines for wasting water.
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As it endures a historic drought, the state is considering imposing $500-a-day fines for wasting water.
Even though the Bay Area leads the state in water conservation, it may not be enough.
Global warming creates drier air and helps parch vegetation that fuels horrific wildfires. But California's forests have been mismanaged for more than a century.
Summary: OK, so what do these two disasters have to do with anything today? There's one common thread between them that's relevant: No one blamed the freak storms on climate change.
It rained so hard in California in 1862 that a 300-mile-long lake was created in the Central Valley, stretching from Bakersfield to Red Bluff.