Massive winter storms bring Bay Area groundwater back to pre-drought levels
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Pretty dang close to full : Bay Area groundwater back to pre-drought levels after massive winter storms – Times-Herald
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For California Ag Today, I’m Mike Stephens <p>Drought Can Be Managed – Lack of Preparation and Common Sense Cannot<p>So here we are again, California. We’re coming through another dry year and watching the sky, hopeful that Mother Nature will give us a reprieve.<p>We’ve all had a bad year, but everyone needs to buckle up because some of the biggest consumer impacts are just now showing up. Farmers, many of whom received none of their promised water allotment this year were forced to grow less of the healthy, safe, diverse food supply our families rely on. Just trying to make it through the year, most farmers had to either fallow land, focus only on the highest value crops or a combination of both. Price increases and decreased availability of some foods are hitting the markets now, just as we’re all making shopping lists for all our favorite holiday foods. <p>It doesn’t have to be this bad. California has weathered multi-year droughts as far back a