Apparently you've never heard of the California Aqueduct system. The water collected from the Sierra Nevada Mountains is going into the Pacific to protect a bait fish rather than to the farmers.
Unless Mother Nature was elected to the CA legislature, this is a man-made drought.
this is a man-made drought.....Absolutely. How can you have a drought in a desert? God gave California X amount of rain every year to replenish desert plants and help the lizards have a yearly amount of water. Man moved in and upset the balance. You cannot have a drought unless all men move out.
Folsom Lake was at it's lowest recorded level, as were 90% of the reservoirs in CA.
While there was some water available, if they had pumped enough to keep the south valley in production sea water would have killed the delta.
Of course! They do let too much flow to sea. Of course! There is not enough storage. Those are the fault of the environmentalists.
But to suggest there was no drought, or water shortage, is abject ignorance.