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The Carmel River has been the Monterey Peninsula’s primary source of water for more than a century. That will come to an end on Jan. 1, 2022. The State Water Resources Control Board has ordered the area’s private water utility, California American Water (Cal Am), to reduce its draws from the river by two-thirds of what it pumped a decade ago.

On Saturday, an offshore oil pipeline ruptured off the coast of Orange County. The pipeline, owned by Houston based Amplify Energy spilled an estimated 126 thousand gallons of crude oil into the Pacific. Authorities are still investigating the cause.