California will provide 100 percent of the water requested by cities and farms for the first time in years thanks to winter storms that filled reservoirs and runoff from a record snowpack
The State Water Project will provide full allocations to 29 water agencies supplying about 27 million customers and 750,000 acres of farmland, the Department of Water Resources said.The last time the state agency fully met water requests was in 2006.Noah Berger / AP
"Following two years of 0 percent allocations, this water supply will assist growers in Westlands with putting the land to work to grow the food that feeds the world," he said. The water picture changed dramatically starting in December, when the first of a dozen"atmospheric rivers"hit, causing widespread flooding and damaging homes and infrastructure, and dumping as many as 700 inches of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
As of this week, more than 65 percent of California no longer had drought conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
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