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Codi ChambersCyrus JiaNathan PhungManarbek ToleuLiwei Xu Jenny Yoshihara

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Se&eral factors e)ect drought occurrenceand se&erity

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Se&eral factors e)ect drought occurrenceand se&erity

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California is currently e-periencinge-tremely lo$ precipitation and highesttemperature recordings


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California is currently e-periencinge-tremely lo$ precipitation and highesttemperature recordings


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.lo%al $arming is not causing droughts %utit is causing longer and more se&eredroughts once they occur

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State ater 7ro8ectalle&iates the $aterpro%lems in SouthernCalifornia

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Decline of sh dueto e-port of $ater%y the S7 andC67

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1&4 was Cali#ornias driest year sin,e the&7sD when the re,ords started

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Governor Edmund Brown Jr. issued an executive order on April

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'he (%ave )ater* division of the executive order focuses on

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