California Tries To Harness Megastorm Floods To Ease Crippling Droughts

By Sharon Bernstein
11/15/22 AT 6:15 AM

The land along the Arroyo Pasajero Creek, halfway between Sacramento and Los Angeles, is too dry to farm some years and dangerously flooded in others.

Amid the cycles of wet and dry -- both phenomena exacerbated by climate change -- a coalition of local farmers and the nearby city of Huron are trying to turn former hemp and tomato fields into massive receptacles that can hold water as it percolates into the ground during wet years.

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