Technology exists to solve California's drought

Billings Gazette: We as a nation are mostly ignoring one of the largest natural disasters of our time — the multiyear drought and desertification of California and adjacent areas. Nearly 40 million people just in California are suffering the devastating effects. Agriculture is collapsing, adding to the suffering, and deepening the crisis. The most valuable agricultural region in the nation is drying up, along with the superb produce we have come to take for granted. California's $2.2 trillion GDP is at risk — an economy nearly the size of the economy of the U.K.

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