Los Angeles, San Diego Reshaping California Drought Strategy

Southern California’s two great cities, Los Angeles and San Diego, are pursuing different but equally cutting-edge solutions to the state’s epic, four-year drought. The extreme dry spell, called a 500-year event, follows previous droughts in the early 1990s that galvanized local officials to invest in pioneering water delivery and storage systems on an unprecedented scale. Their efforts are thrusting the two municipalities to the forefront of a growing number of cities reshaping urban...

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