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Water shortage ---- here we go again, maybe

Coalition response...This author correctly portrays the "unpredictability" of rainfall patterns in California from one year to the next. Most water experts agree that a multi-pronged effort is needed to balance California's wet and dry years.  Like a balanced investment strategy, California needs to maximize conservation, recycling and new storage in its water strategy.  Leaving new water storage facilities out of the mix doesn't give us the balance...or security...we need for the future.