Heavy winter storms in California have brought relief to more than half the state ravaged by drought over the past six years. But one small region remains in extreme drought: Santa Barbara. Photo: Jake Nicol/The Wall Street JournalSANTA BARBARA, Calif.—Tom Fayram admits to a fair amount of water envy. “When you see flooding rivers in Northern California, you wish you could see some of that here,” said Mr. Fayram, deputy director of Santa Barbara County’s water resources division. Yet Santa Barbara, about 100 miles north of Los Angeles along the state’s Central...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 08, 2017 17:46 UTC