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Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast with clips today from all in

with Chris Hayes, CounterSpin, the David Pakman show, the Tom Harman program, the Green

Newford Port on the media, the Sierra Club and the Young Terrics.

We're here in California, a state in the grip of a devastating drought more than a

century in the making.

That dusty patch of land behind me is meant to be a reservoir.

And all this week, we'll be reviewing new stories from all over the state, from the Central

Valley to San Diego, looking at all the different ways this historic water shortage will impact

not just the state of California, but the entire country.

And what that means for a future era of climate crisis.

California is dealing with its growing drought crisis.

This California is resorted to drastic measures.

California is in the midst of a drought of unprecedented scale.

It's like a drought of the white and the worst could be yet to come.

As long as there have been people in California, there have been people obsessed with California's

water.

And in the 120 years of official record keeping, the driest years ever recorded have been the

last three things are getting desperate.

The problem has gotten so bad in the Central Valley that the Madera County Sheriff's Department

says thieves are stealing people's water.

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