S**w Survey Reveals Depth of California's Water Woes
 

S**w Survey Reveals Depth of California's Water Woes
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After its third-driest winter on record, driest calendar year and third straight year of below-average precipitation, California water officials were ** doubt bracing for bad news when they set out to conduct a statewide s**w survey high in the Sierra Nevada Mountain range on April 1. The s**w survey is seen as a key marker of the health of the state's water supplies, since it typically marks the peak s**w cover for the season

S**w surveyors found a s**wpack on Tuesday that contains just 32% of the average water content typically observed at this time of year, which places 2014 as among the lowest water-content years on record since such records began in 1930. Read more...

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