Brown lifted the drought emergency in all but four California counties, the paper reported, since spring rains have brought some relief to the long-parched state, helping restore groundwater supplies.
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However, the Guardian said, “Water conservation will become a way of life in the nation’s most populous state, said Felicia Marcus, chairwoman of the state water resources control board. Officials already have started charting long-term rules to make California more resilient as climate change makes weather patterns more severe. ‘There’s a greater appreciation of just how precious water is,’ she said. ‘We’ve got to plan for longer droughts.’”
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