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California boosts summer water allocations amid ‘weather whiplash’ shrinking snowpack
The California Department of Water Resources announced Friday that allocations from the State Water Project are increasing for the coming summer months. DWR officials said the new allocation amounts are 45% of requested supplies, up from the previous allocation of 30% announced in January. The State Water Project, one of two backbone water storage and […] The post California boosts summer water allocations amid ‘weather whiplash’ shrinking snowpack appeared first on Local News Matters .

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According to Local News Matters’s source item, California boosts summer water allocations amid ‘weather whiplash’ shrinking snowpack, The California Department of Water Resources announced Friday that allocations from the State Water Project are increasing for the coming summer months. DWR officials said the new allocation amounts are 45% of requested supplies, up from the previous allocation of 30% announced in January. The State Water Project, one of two backbone water storage and […] The post California boosts summer water allocations amid ‘weather whiplash’ shrinking snowpack appeared first on Local News Matters .
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