Water Cutbacks Ease As California Drought Loosens

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – California further eased some water cutbacks Thursday as a rainy March lessens the state’s five-year drought.
The state Department of Water Resources announced it would be able to give its client water agencies 45 percent of their water allocations this year. That’s up from as low as 5 percent in 2014, in the middle of California’s driest four-year stretch on record.
In January and again in March, winter storms have been bringing vital snowpack to the