Climate change, wine costs, tap water taste among Calif. drought’s effects

SAN FRANCISCO, April 2 (UPI) — The four-year water slump that the Golden State has not yet broken free from continues to have a tremendous impact on the 40 million people who live there. But that impact goes far beyond the precariously lean snowpack and clean water availability. California has officially been in a drought since 2011, but a lack of water for the nation’s third-largest state is anything but rare.