California is digitizing its 100-year-old paper water rights records. Why that's a big deal
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One by one, they're bringing pieces of history into the digital era, some a century old and thin as onion skin.
The State Water Resources Control Board aims to build a database that integrates a century of water rights records, geospatial mapping and up-to-date water diversion data that's available to the public.
Read at Sacramento Bee
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