Gov. Newsom Asks Californians To Reduce Water Usage By 15% To Help Combat Drought
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California Governor Gavin Newsom made an announcement in San Luis Obispo County Thursday, asking all Californians to reduce water usage by 15% to help combat the state’s drought crisis. The drought, caused largely by rising temperatures, a drastically limited amount of Sierra snowpack meltwater feeding steams and reservoirs and about half of all stored water going to environmental purposes, such as keeping up stream levels for endangered fish, has already caused an emergency proclamation in 41 out of the 58 counties in the state and led to thousands of farms to be denied water so far this year.
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