We’ll get more water in the spring when the snows melt. Whether we capture and store it is an entirely different question. It isn’t something I’ve studied in depth but I have no doubt that water resource management is screwy. They are busy tearing down dams and releasing water to save fish and I don’t think we have any new aqueducts or expansion projects for the existing reservoirs.
Probably a good bit of that storage would also have worked its way into the ground aquifers.
“Whether we capture and store it is an entirely different question.”
No question about it, we won’t capture or store anything beyond our aged reservoir cspacity. The rest is going to flow down to the ocean. Unless it’s snow pack, which will melt later, some of which we will likely still capture and store. But our population has doubled in 40 years and our Reservoir capacity simply hasn’t. I think Los Vaqueros in Contra Costa County is the newest in the State, and it’s a couple of decades old. So, no, we aren’t going to capture and store anywhere near as much of this storm water as we need to.