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This is Bekurius, I'm Olivia Allen Price Alan Price and hey you've made it to the final

episode in our State of Drought series. In the last few episodes we looked at what

residents and local water agencies can do to conserve, recycle, and even

generate fresh water. Today we're going to keep exploring solutions, but this time from a

statewide perspective.

We're going to look at four big ideas that would help us survive a multi-year drought.

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This whole series, we've been talking about how most of our water

comes from a system of dams and reservoirs,

set up to capture the state's precipitation. So one logical solution here is more dams, right?

Not so fast, says Jay Lund, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at

UC Davis.

The story I tell people is, if you were the first engineer in California and you're going to build the first

reservoir where would you put it you would put it the cheapest place that gives you

the most water where would you put the second reservoir the next best place we've done this 1500 times. What do we have left? Expensive

places that don't give you much water. He says with 1500 dams in the state all

the good dam spots are taken. Heck, even a lot of the bad spots are

taken. But that doesn't mean that there aren't smart things we can do with our

reservoirs. Ezra David Romero takes it from here with four big ideas.

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