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Governor Gavin Newsom declared a drought emergency in Los Angeles County late this afternoon, as well as in Orange, Riverside, San Diego, San Bernardino, Ventura, Imperial and San Francisco Counties. That puts the entirety of Southern California under the state’s water conservation order. Those eight counties had been…

“We’re living with a water system designed for a world that no longer exists,” said California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday. He said that the snow pack had melted so precipitously that “it didn’t actually run off into reservoirs and rivers, but it seeped into the parched earth.” The result was 500,000 acre feet of…