Then and now: California comes back to life after years-long drought.
News California’s dry spell is officially over, Gov.
Jerry Brown announced last week — and now the Golden State is experiencing its wettest weather ever.
Thanks to a spike in rainfall over the past two winters, the state is lush with greenery again after a five-year drought.
“We went from a driest-on-record scenario to a wettest-on-record scenario,” David Rizzardo, chief of the snow survey section at the California Department of Water Resources, told the Los Angeles Times.
California had such low rainfall between October 2011 and September 2015 that the state was forced to impose strict water regulations on its residents.
Despite more rain and snow, the state isn’t flushing out water conservation entirely.
Areas of the state still have extremely low groundwater supplies and climate change makes drought a future possibility, reported The Sacramento Bee.
“This drought emergency is over, but the next drought could be around the corner,” Brown said in a statement.
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