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That’s not just from the recent storms — early-season rains tend to soak into the parched ground — but also because California is building on three prior wet winters, state climatologist Michael Anderson said.

As part of the water-saving efforts, farmers in California’s Imperial Valley are temporarily leaving some hay fields parched and fallow in exchange for cash payments.

It has endured millennia of drought and war in this parched land scarred by conflict.

Their front yard was pathetic: basically 1,500 square feet of weeds and parched patches of Bermuda lawn.

The pumping has led to resentment among leaders of Native tribes, who say it is leaving their valley parched and harming the environment.