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The from KQBD in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim.

Coming up on forum, a former lake is re-emerging in California's Central Valley to Larry Lake between Fresno and Bakersfield.

It was once four times the size of Lake Tahoe before it dried up after water from the mountains that fed it was directed away for farms and homes.

But now, after this year's wet winter, the dams and levees that hold the water

back are being overwhelmed and the lake is rising again. It's inundating farmland, forcing

evacuations, threatening cities, even re-igniting water wars. And there's more water coming

from record snowpack in the Sierra Nevada. We take a closer look at the return of Tollari Lake after this news.

Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. The atmospheric rivers that have pummeled California these last

few months have meant the slow return of

Tulare Lake in California Central Valley. Once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi,

dating back to the ice age when mammoths drank from its shores, it was drained for farmland

a century ago. But now the nearby rivers and complex system of canals and levees that typically keep water away have overflowed, invading towns and farms, threatening homes and prisons.

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