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Article text courtesy of nytimes.com

California Needs Water. El Niño Might Bring Too Much.

El Niño threatens to dump torrential rains on California this winter. With a megadrought in the American West since 2000, that water should be welcome.

But there’s such a thing as too much water. All that rainfall can outpace the state’s ability to capture and store it for when the dry years return, gushing into the Pacific Ocean but not before causing floods and mudslides.