Jay Famiglietti

UC Irvine

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Senior water scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech; professor of Earth system science at UC Irvine

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Instead of reducing water use by 20% as Governor Brown has called for, California has increased it by one percent. In the Southland, it’s up by 8%.

Southern California Struggles to Stave Off Drought

Instead of reducing water use by 20% as Governor Brown has called for, California has increased it by one percent. In the Southland, it’s up by 8%.

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