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California is moving forward with new water conservation rules that would require some suppliers to make cuts of 20% or more by 2025.
The Lahaina fire in West Maui ignited as firefighters focused on the Upcountry fire. What happened next — the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century — left the historic town in ashes.
With the emergency phase of COVID-19 over, a Los Angeles Times analysis shows how the pandemic took different tolls on L.A. County and New York City.
We have tallied the rains and are tracking the snowmelt. Yes, there is water now. But the West is still in a long-term drought.
Between July 2021 and March of this year, statewide water savings were about 7%, a Los Angeles Times analysis has found.
This year California’s snowpack reached record-high levels — 40 million acre-feet at its peak in April. Melted, that would be enough to hypothetically drape almost 5 inches of water across the entire state of California.
Flying over the Sierra Nevada, teams are using lasers to measure California’s vast snowpack, tracking flood risks as the snow melts.
