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When drought-level groundwater becomes the plan

ChicoSol runs guest commentary on Mondays. Submit your idea for a commentary to ch**********@***il.com. Deep under the land that raised me, an aquifer flows beneath almond orchards and farmhouses and county roads, beneath small towns and fields and the places where generations of families have built their lives around the assumption that when they turn on the faucet, water will …

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