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California’s New Summer Normal: Use Less Power and Water
- Drought, heat make conservation an uncomfortable fact of life
- Residents urged again to cut power use to avoid blackouts
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Californians once greeted hot summers by blasting the air conditioners and filling the pool. No longer.
Battered by drought and heat waves that are straining the power grid, the Golden State is asking residents to make do with less water and electricity, just when they really want to use both. It’s an uncomfortable new normal for a state that used to celebrate summer.