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California is not the only state experiencing water losses. According to a study snowpack in other states that usually fill water basins may be seeing a sort of drought in them due to low levels of snowpack. Global warming is having a effect on large snowpacks where the precipitation now is falling as rain rather than snow and washing away immediately or is making it warmer so that the snow melts away quicker. The snowfall in California this past season was recorded at its lowest in the last 500 years. Research done was recently over 400 water basins across the northern hemisphere that come from snowfall showed that only 97 of the water basins directly supply 2 billion people with water. In Turlock we rely on the water from the Sierra Nevada snow pact. That is one of the main reasons we have had little water these last 4 years was due to those low level of snow pacts. In order to help Turlock, this year the rainfall and the snow pact need to be large.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151112055240.htm
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