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The California Drought

California's record-breaking drought brought many things long submerged back to light when the water line dropped.

Long-abandoned cars were discovered in shallow rivers, ghost towns emerged at the bottoms of lake beds, and glints of gold in the near-dry streams sent amateur prospectors hotfooting it back into the hills.

What also re-surfaced were the old and ugly battles over who can claim rights to what has historically been California's most precious resource:

Water.

July 22, 2015 | Source: Earth Justice | by

California’s record-breaking drought brought many things long submerged back to light when the water line dropped.

Long-abandoned cars were discovered in shallow rivers, ghost towns emerged at the bottoms of lake beds, and glints of gold in the near-dry streams sent amateur prospectors hotfooting it back into the hills.

What also re-surfaced were the old and ugly battles over who can claim rights to what has historically been California’s most precious resource:

Water.