After a historic wet winter, California's reservoirs and surface water are overflowing. However, state officials are in a race to prevent farmlands from becoming barren deserts as the state's groundwater is being pumped out at an alarming rate.

Depending on the source you read, California's "Golden State" nickname was coined because of the 1800's Gold Rush, the yellow poppies that sprout in Summer, or likely the early settlers who first saw its rolling-golden hills of parched grass.

"I think in California, we're almost perpetually in a drought," said Adam Claes with the Fresno Irrigation District (FID). "Over the past five years, we had the three driest years on record."

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