Despite a federal deadline today, California the largest user of Colorado River water has refused to cut back as much as six other states proposed in a new plan today. Imperial valley growers have the most to lose.
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With extreme weather incidents increasing due to climate change, California is now grappling with an atmospheric river that's bringing "bomb cyclone"-level rainfall to our parched landscape thanks to drought conditions that are several years in the making. And that's a recipe for dangerous flooding.