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Governor: California’s Drought Over, But Conservation Isn’t

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California Gov. Jerry Brown declared an end to the state’s drought emergency Friday after powerful storms quenched the state following four extraordinarily dry years that drained reservoirs and wells, devastated forests and farmland and forced millions of people to slash their water use. The turnaround has been stark. After years of brown fields and cracked earth, monster storms blanketed California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains this winter with deep snow that flows into the network of rivers...

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