In July 2016, Kira Russo traveled to California to personally assess the drought situation there. She spoke with water managers in Needles, Lucerne Valley, Sacramento, and San Luis Obispo County.

In her travels, it became clear that water issues in California vary considerably, even in locations of close proximity. Despite the fact that California lawmakers lifted state conservation rules in May, considerably more than half of the state remains in “severe, extreme or exceptional drought.”

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