The Drought in California California is a great place to live but has been troubled in the last few years with a terrible drought. ... What is the solution to the California drought? ... The fire departments in Northern California during winter hired 125 additional firefighters and kept seasonal firefighters on the payroll in Southern California. ... Many politicians and the governor of California Jerry Brown argue about water in California. ... There have been new regulations in central and southern California. ...

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"The most extensive aqueduct system in the world is that which supplies water to southern California, including the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego" (Funk & Wagnalls, 1983). ... The Colorado aqueduct, completed in 1941, can supply southern California with up to 1 billion gallons of water a day. To increase the amount of water available to southern California, the State Water Project was constructed (Funk and Wagnalls, 1983). The California State Water Project, composed of canals, pipelines, and tunnels, is based on a unique concept taking into account possible earthquake damage. .....

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Kelp also serves as a buffer by absorbing energy from waves before the waves hit the shoreline, protecting many of the sandy beaches along the California coast. ... The majority of grey whales leave the Bering Sea in the North Pacific in mid-November to mid-December to make the long trip down to the warm waters of Baja California and the Gulf of California. ... These groups include the whales living in the North Pacific, those in the North Atlantic and those in the Southern Hemisphere. ... The current population of sea otters in California is about 3,000, primarily distributed from just south ...

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As it moves away, the water is deflected northward (in the northern hemisphere) by the Coriolis force and southward (in the southern hemisphere), causing water to move away from the equator in both directions. ... Drought in Southern Africa, Southern India, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, Southern Peru, Western Bolivia, Mexico, Central America Heavy rain and flooding in Bolivia, Ecuador, Northern Peru, Cuba, U.S. ... Simultaneously, the deepening of the winter upper-level trough (typically found over the eastern US) produced heavier than normal rains in the southern states (...

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However, in a recent study across Southern California, bottled water was shown to be no more pure than tap water, and, in fact, was shown to contain fewer essential minerals than tap water (Sullivan, 1995). ...

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