How California could get smarter about droughts and flooding

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By Nathanael JohnsonNov 9, 2015, 2:46 pm153 pts
First comes the drought, then the deluge. It’s not just that climate change is making the weather more extreme, with hotter dry spells and warmer winters that transform mountain snowpack to water. It’s also that the drought has actually made flooding more likely by diminishing the soil’s capacity to…

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