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Gavin Newsom: “Two times in 15 years, millennial droughts, a chance 1 in…”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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Governor Newsom Delivers Closing Remarks at Association of California Water Agencies Conference

Published | Video Starts at 10:33

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. Two times in 15 years, millennial droughts, a chance 1 in 1,000 that either of them would happen. They both happen in 15 years. This weather whiplash, all of us recognizing we had inherited laws on, you know, you're intimately familiar, 19th century laws on water policy, 20th century infrastructure. (10:33–10:42)

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Asserts that California experienced two millennial droughts in 15 years, each with a 1 in 1,000 chance.

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