River that runs through San Jose goes dry
Source: Associated Press
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The river that runs through America's 10th-largest city has dried up, shriveling a source of civic pride that had welcomed back trout, salmon, beavers and other wildlife after years of restoration efforts.
Over the past two months, large sections of the Guadalupe have become miles of cracked, arid gray riverbed and fish and other wildlife are either missing or dead, the San Jose Mercury News reported Sunday.
... State law requires dam operators in California to release water for fish but Santa Clara Valley Water District officials made the case that with low storage in the county's 10 reservoirs — now 46 percent full — even if a lot of water was released down the Guadalupe River, most of it simply would soak into the bone-dry soil. And within a month the river would be dry again.
Because less water is being released from the reservoirs, at least eight miles of the 14-mile Guadalupe River are now completely dry.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/science/article/River-that-runs-through-major-Northern-Calif-6434133.php
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I imagine that not much has changed since then. 
... a large expanse of over-watered and over-fertilized grass is just necessary, you know.
