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Drought ravages California reservoirs
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This photo shows the water level at New Melones Reservoir during the last drought in mid-September 2014 near the Highway 49 bridge.
OROVILLE (AP) — Each year Lake Oroville helps water a quarter of the nation's crops, sustain endangered salmon beneath its massive earthen dam and anchor the tourism economy of a Northern California county that must rebuild seemingly every year after unrelenting wildfires.