Assess the Present Status of California Water Use,distribution,and Supply

question 15

Essay

Assess the present status of California water use,distribution,and supply.Respond to the assertion of one water expert: "We've lived an illusion,creating an environment we could not support".

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A breadth of values, taken from statistical examination of a sample, that aims to envelop the value of an unrevealed population trait.

Standard Deviation

Standard deviation is a measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, indicating how much the individual data points diverge from the mean value.

Sample Mean

The average value calculated from a subset of a population.

Confidence Level

The probability that the values of a parameter lie within a specified range of values, indicating the reliability of an estimate.