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California Town Completely Without Running Water as Drought, Heat Wave Intensifies
An entire town in California is without running water as the state suffers a drought and a heat wave pushes temperatures into the triple digits.
Teviston, a rural community in the San Joaquin Valley's Turea County, has been struggling since early June when the only functioning well stopped working. Since then, the more than 700 residents there have been without running water.
California readies to prevent blackouts, but threats remain
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's top energy regulators on Tuesday said the state is better prepared to avoid last summer's rotating blackouts, but they cautioned the power grid of the nation's most populous state is still vulnerable to extreme heat waves that could force more outages later this year.
Reports says poor planning, heat caused California blackouts
Poor planning coupled with extreme weather caused rolling blackouts that affected hundreds of thousands of people during an August heat wave, energy regulators said Tuesday.
