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Show WATER SUPPLY REPORT The water supply over the state so far this year has averaged from 40 to 100 percent of normal in natural stream flow and about 90 percent of that for the same period last year, a report issued Wednesday by State Engineer T. H. Humpherys shows. The report is based on information infor-mation Teceived from water commissioners com-missioners and other cooperative observers .throughout the state. IrrigatfJ crops are about 15 percent better than those of lust year and about 20 percent belov normal, according to the report. Unusually heavy drawing on storage water throughout the state is credited to abnormally high temperatures and lack of precipitation, reducing possibilities possibili-ties of holdover storage water for next season. |