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Oct 23, 2008 10:26 am US/Pacific

Officials Warn Of Looming California Water Crisis

 Environment & The Green Beat

SACRAMENTO (CBS 5) ― California water experts are claiming that we're headed for one of the worst water shortages in the state's history.

The "Sacramento Bee" reports that reservoir levels around the state have reached the lowest levels in 14 years.

Officials with the state Department of Water Resources claimed there's just under 16-million acre-feet of water stored in reservoirs around the state right now. With the population swelling to 37-million people and growing demands from agribusiness, there won't be enough water to go around if we have another dry winter.

It's rivaling conditions in 1977, when only eight-million acre feet of water sat in reservoirs, but at that time there weren't as many people living in the state and water needs for farming were also less.

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