Jerry Brown made official Friday: The long California drought is over. “This drought emergency is over, but the next drought could be around the corner,” Brown said in a statement. Central Valley water tables plunged and farmland sank as growers pumped ever more groundwater to make up for lost irrigation deliveries. “Nobody has even bothered to calculate it, it’s so small.”Every major drought teaches California water lessons. But the state water board will give each urban water district a number for how much water it can use in total every year.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 07, 2017 17:45 UTC