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California: A State Of Survival

In this five-part series by CBS13's Nick Janes, he explores a few of the many severe changes happening in California as a result of the years-long drought.

Part 1: A Sinking Feeling In The San Joaquin Valley
A problem caused by the drought is literally causing thousands of square miles of land to sink, and it will affect all of us permanently. This problem is happening out of sight, but hardly out of mind.
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Part 2: People Without Water In Tulare County
There are plenty of us worried about us saving our lawns in this drought. But for hundreds of Californians, the situation is much more dire. They have no water at all. We track a little farther south of Merced to Tulare County, where we find the hardest-hit area in the entire state.
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Part 3: Farmers Coming Up Dry In Costly Search For Water
Drilling for water, farmers are racing to find ways to save their crops in the face of severe water-delivery cutbacks. Some farmers say this is the toughest challenge of their lives. In Butte County, we meet a farmer whose family has been in the business since the 1800s. He says he is doing every thing he can to save every last drop of water -- and in the process, save his family farm.
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Part 4: Bay Area Company Pulls Water From Thin Air
It's drought-busting technology that sounds so futuristic, it's right out of Star Wars. Luke Skywalker's aunt and uncle in "Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope" ran a moisture farm where they would draw moisture from the arid climate of Tatooine with moisture vaporators. Nearly 40 years after that movie was released, a Bay Area company is making something similar called atmospheric water generators.
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Part 5: Lessons Learned From The Land Down Under
High above the suffering Sierra snowpack, Rich DeHaven captured an eye-opening perspective in California's drought. Where snow that makes up one-third of California's water should be just isn't there. Karelene Maywald, the chair of the Australia National Water Commission, spoke to CBS13 about the devastating millennium drought. California's four-year drought looks small compared to Australia's, which stretched from 1995 to 2012.
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