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The current mini-drought California finds itself in reminds me of events of 30 years ago when the Golden State experienced another short, but severe drought. The water battles in California then remain strangely the same.

Editorial:

Water rationing isn't in Bakersfield's (immediate) future

The Bakersfield Californian - 5/4/08

By Robert Price

Rationing is an unpleasant word. It conjures up images of angry mobs pillaging relief trucks and humanitarian workers abandoning their distribution stations and running for their lives.

The word sounds considerably more palatable through the prism of the American experience. In fact, it has patriotic overtones.

No sugar, no coffee, no tires, no fuel oil? That'll be pretty tough, but our boys in uniform need those things. We can manage.