A land of extremes

After years of drought, snow and rain and floods

Earlier this week, I was interviewing the head of an irrigation district in Nevada who told me that contrary to what most people think, the wet years are far busier than the dry ones, of which he has seen many. In 2015, at a time of intense drought, he said that water allocations in his irrigation district were effectively cut to nothing — about 2%.

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