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Pros And Cons Of California Drought
The drought has been the worst drought recorded as the biggest drought in history for California that is.If you made it to this point here is more info on this big topic of regulating water for California and not regulating groundwater for California.
The Drought is costing the state millions and even billions of dollars as seen in source 1.
This has caused a bill to be brought up to regulate water ,Meaning everyone would have a balanced amount of water.Only thing holding this bill down is the voting part.
In the following paragraphs i'll be explaining why you should vote for regulating water rather than not regulating and the cons of doing not regulating groundwater,So let's start with one basic reason we should regulate water. Regulating water will result in people having a balanced amount of water.The pros to this situation is No one would go without water as seen in source two which says’’For Angelic ,the worse part has been going without a shower for five months.’’The drought has had a big impact on certain places who can’t even
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