Rain not enough to fix water woes


	Rain not enough to fix water woes

renerodz

1-26-2009 3:04 PM

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1-29-2009 4:56 PM

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The nation's largest irrigation district, the 600,000-acre Westlands Water District

More people need to wake up to water conservation...water is not an endless resource but a limited resource.

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