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Bigger climate challenges are ahead, water chief says

Posted by: Maven on October 16, 2009 at 7:14 am

From the Modesto Bee:

“The state’s top water official said Thursday night that he is bracing for another year of drought and for even bigger challenges from climate change in the years ahead.

Lester Snow, director of the California Department of Water Resources, provided an overview of the issues to nearly 200 people at California State University, Stanislaus.

Snow said that this week’s big storm notwithstanding, the state faces the prospect of a fourth straight dry year. The reservoirs on average are 68 percent full as the new rainy season begins, compared with 172 percent after the wet 2006, he said.

State and federal officials are trying to ease the way for water transfers and other short-term remedies, but Snow said the long-term solution has to include greater capture of the wet-year flows.

“We have to have more storage in the state of California,” he said. “It can be surface water. It can be groundwater. It probably has to be both.”

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October 16, 2009 · Filed Under Climate change & water supply, General Water Issues

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