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Having healthy, irrigated California live oak and sycamore trees on your property can save your house, Syphard said.

In fact, the Getty Villa credited its pruned landscaping and irrigated grounds with helping to save the museum’s structures from the Palisades fire.

There, at least a quarter of all nitrogen oxides — the precursors to smog — are released by the area’s irrigated green spaces, according to research from UC Davis.

Researchers have projected that large portions of the Central Valley’s irrigated cropland will need to be permanently left dry to comply with the restrictions.

Other scenarios simulate idling irrigated farmland, reducing pumping in areas where groundwater levels are forecast to decrease the most, setting limits on how much groundwater can be pumped and curtailing junior water rights.