By Craig Miller, KQED Science/News Fix
Tuesday is “New Year’s Eve” for water managers in California, but they are not celebrating.
This is the end of the state’s official “water year,” kind of a fiscal year for the water budget. Officials watch water years more closely than calendar years because they run from October to September, centered around the months in which California gets virtually all of its rainfall. And this one appears to be clocking in as the third driest on record, according to state climatologist Mike Anderson, with less than 60 percent of normal precipitation.
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