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    California is drought-free for the first time in nearly a decade

    by Alejandra Reyes-Velarde, Los Angeles Times Mar 14, 2019 3 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - It's official: California is 100 percent drought-free.

    For the first time since 2011, the state shows no areas suffering from prolonged drought and illustrates almost entirely normal conditions, according to a map released Thursday by the U.S. Drought Monitor.

    Former Gov. Jerry Brown issued an executive order in 2017 that lifted the drought emergency in most of the state, leaving some breathing a sigh of relief. But he cautioned Californians to keep saving water as some parts of the state were still suffering

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