Wet January for parts of the state

January brought aboveaverage rainfall for large swaths of East Texas while the rest of the state had below- average precipitation, hydrologist Mark Wentzel wrote in the Texas Water Development Board’s monthlyreport. Drought conditions expanded by 5% to include 54% of the state, while statewide storage in water supply reservoirs is at 72.5% of capacity, down about 10 percentage points from wha...

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