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A proposed desalination plant in Orange County could get a boost from President Donald Trump’s administration, but not everyone is happy about that. The Poseidon Water Company has wanted to build the Huntington Beach Desalination Project, but it has been tied up in red tape for more than a decade. The proposed desalination plant popped up on an allegedly leaked Trump administration list of 50 infrastructure projects.Opponents of the project said the state has shot down the plans for the past 17 years because it’s environmentally unsound and too expensive to desalinate water.

It’s official: The deluge of rain that soaked California in recent weeks has washed away the worst instances of the drought in the state, according to an analysis released Thursday. While none of the state remains in the worst category known as “exceptional,” the drought continues in the south and central portions of the state, the U.S. Drought Monitor said. However, there was a major improvement shown in just the last week due to a series of tropical storms that produced substantial precipitation statewide.

January’s heavy rains are erasing years of extreme drought in many areas of California, when it comes to the state’s surface supplies of water. The same can’t be said yet for the state’s groundwater basins. More than 30 counties in northern California are now considered to be drought-free according to the latest survey by the U.S. Drought Monitor. The southern half of the state still has a ways to go, but in all cases, the status is much improved over even just last week.

After five years of drought, California is in the midst of one of the wettest years on record. The Sacramento River is swollen, the Yolo Bypass looks like a lake, Sierra snowpack is accumulating and large reservoirs are filling. And as inevitably happens when rain falls, local water agencies, San Diego’s among them, are calling on the state to lift restrictions on water use. But the rainy season doesn’t end until April. Whether it keeps raining or not, April would be soon enough to make a declaration one way or another.