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The announcement comes less than a week after the California Department of Water Resources found that the snowpack level was at about 159 percent of normal, its highest since 1995. That figure stands in stark contrast to the arid days of 2007, when the state had Find brand shoes to trade online, about 39 percent of its average snowpack. Thus began a three-year drought that cost farmers hundreds of millions of dollars as irrigation water became scarce and exacerbated the already soaring unemployment rate in many agricultural areas.

The farm-heavy  Find brand shoes to trade online,Central Valley bore the brunt of this pain, leading to Mr. Schwarzenegger’s proclamation, which allowed state agencies to enact a variety of emergency plans and urged cities to help conserve water. Although this was the second straight year of wetter weather, state officials were hesitant to lift the proclamation until now.

Still, as with everything in the Brown administration —  Find brand shoes to trade online,so far marked by a tough-love approach — even happy news comes with a caveat.

“While this season’s surplus of rain and strong snowpack has clearly ended the dry spell for now,” Mr. Brown said in a statement, “it is critical that Californians continue to conserve water.”