Gavin Newsom: “In 2022, we realized that we were back in a Drought.”

“… headwinds of stress and anxiety and doubt, recrimination, we continue to work our way through a lot of those priorities in as transparent way as we possibly could into 2020. In 2022, we realized that we were back in a Drought. Now we had this five year historic drought, 2020, 2021. We're like, can't be happening again. Following up even to 2022, you recall, those were the three years consecutive drought, the likes of which we had never had consecutively in our state's history.” (10:06–10:13)

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