why is California always in a drought crisis, but landlocked states in the Midwest are not?

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why is California always in a drought crisis, but landlocked states in the Midwest are not?

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A lot of good info elsewhere in the thread, but one very simple answer is the mighty Mississippi River. Some people take for granted we have a river basin area that, outside of the Amazon and not by a lot, is the greatest river basin area in the entire world. It is insane how much fertile land we have in America thanks to this one river network.

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