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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Adam Beam

California debates what to do with water from recent storms

Copyright 2022. The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Weeks after powerful storms dumped 32 trillion gallons of rain and snow on California, state officials and environmental groups in the drought-ravaged state are grappling with what to do with all of that water.

State rules say when it rains and snows a lot in California, much of that water must stay in the rivers to act as a conveyer belt to carry tens of thousands of endangered baby salmon into the Pacific Ocean.

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