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Drought Has 14 Communities on the Brink of Waterlessness in California
2014-09-26 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Under the blistering Central Valley sun, Filiberta Sanchez and her toddler granddaughter strolled down a Parkwood sidewalk lined with yellow weeds, dying grass and trees more fit for kindling than shade. "It was very pretty here, very pretty," said Sanchez, 56, as little Jenny crunched a fistful of parched dirt and pine needles she grabbed from the ground. "Now everything's dry." Parkwood's last well dried up in July. County officials, after much hand-wringing, made a deal with the city of...
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