California needs 16 million Olympic swimming pools worth of rain to end the drought

Grist
By Julia LurieDec 19, 2014, 3:39 pm50 pts
Over the past two weeks, California has gotten a deluge of rain, lifting its reservoir levels and hydrating the soil in a state that is in the midst of one of the worst droughts in history. The chart above shows the state’s drought levels pre- and post-storm, and thankfully, there’s a little less of the…

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