The U.S. Drought Monitor showed nearly one-fourth of California out of drought on Thursday, the best such showing for the parched state in more than three years. Water officials who oversaw mandatory water conservation by cities and towns emphasized three-fourths of the state remains in the five-year drought. Recovery from a recession doesn't happen overnight; recovery from a drought doesn't happen overnight," said Max Gomberg of the state Water Resources Control Board. Three-fourths of the state remains in drought, mostly in Central and Southern California, where most of the state's crops and the majority of its 39 million people are found. Twenty-one percent of the state -- again in Central and Southern California -- are in the most severe category of drought.

Source: Fox News November 03, 2016 23:25 UTC