I know CA has been experiencing drought conditions for several years. It’s a cycle that recurs throughout the country and it’s called climate change. We in Texas have experienced such for all my life (74 y/o). We only have ONE natural lake (Caddo) here and all others are man-made to ensure water for people, agra and ranchers in lean times.
I recently saw a news program showing CA grapevines over many acres that were dead due to lack of irrigation and many ranchers have had to take some of their animals to slaughter houses for the same reason.
I don’t understand why CA has not taken measures to capture the rains and snow melts in a manner to provide irrigation during droughts to the agriculture and ranching industries, instead of just letting the runoff flow to the Pacific Ocean.
I think CA has taken down many small dams to permit a useless fish to move freely and has abandoned the clearing of brush in the forests, which should be done regularly to reduce the occurrence and severity of forest fires.
Not knocking the State of CA, but the poor governance by the elected officials who seem to lack common sense.
Anything on that time scale is NOT climate change.
It's weather.
Don't get sucked into believing the left's nonsense about every weather variation or blip being climate change or due to climate change.
Every year 50% of the snowmelt is NOT CAPTURED. With real, common sense planning, Kalifornia could have water year round. Turns out that the democRATS also cut off the water for those Central Valley farmers in order to purchase their land for pennies on the dollar. Then the city and county governments sell the land to developers who line the pockets of the RATS.
Creepozoids all.
We can't afford that. Our first priority is a choo choo train to connect Bakersfield with Visalia.