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Water use restricted in Yakima River Basin as reservoir at record low
A third year of drought conditions in Central Washington means even the highest-priority users will see their surface water use curtailed in October.
Questen Inghram
Questen Inghram is a Washington State University Murrow News Fellow at the Yakima Herald-Republic.
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