Doyle Rice,
USA TODAY
Date: 5:50 a.m. EDT March 18, 2015
Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/03/17/california-western-drought/23953599/
As California’s epic drought continues with no end in sight, it is setting off new alarms about unprecedented water shortages, increased wildfire threats, fewer crops and farmers, higher electric bills and huge economic losses for years — or even decades — to come.
“Even if normal precipitation begins to fall, it will take a few years