Agreed the more populated areas are hit harder, but when I first started looking in to it I was seeing people up in Redding concerned because their trees were dying and what not. The had the soil tested and there were elevated levels of Aluminum and think Barium. They were getting the shit sprayed out of them, and Redding is the biggest city up that far, and it's not big. The towns are not real big once you go above Sacramento on the East and Santa Rosa on the West. It's pretty rural up there.

But I also believe they were engineering the drought.