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Topic - Water Resources

Water resources are sources of water that are useful or potentially useful. Uses of water include agricultural, industrial, household, recreational and environmental activities. The majority of human uses require fresh water. - Source: Wikipedia

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Assemblyman James Gallagher, R-Yuba City, questions Bill Croyle, the acting director of the Department of Water Resources, about the damaged spillways of the Oroville Dam during an Assembly committee hearing Thursday, May 11, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. Lawmakers cited emerging technical reports from two independent teams of experts on the Oroville Dam's two spillway's, citing concrete that was thinner than modern standards call for, cracks, tree roots that had blocked spillway drains and bedrock anchoring the dam that was far weaker then assumed as some of the reasons for the near collapse of the spillways that caused the evacuation of nearly 200,000 people downstream of the Oroville Dam in February. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)