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California Overestimates Water Supply by Ignoring Climate Change

California’s water agency has overestimated its supply because of a failure to account for climate change in its management of the state’s hydrological resources, a state auditor found.

The report Thursday. The agency has relied on historical climate data when developing its forecasts, instead of taking into account new methods that better account for extreme conditions, the report said.

The nation’s most populous state has suffered consecutive ...

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