% of capacity doesn’t show a drought.
With the snow melting off the mountains you guys should be good to go, no?
One outlier at 15 percent full. Wonder how that happened?
“With the snow melting off the mountains you guys should be good to go, no?”
You’ve hit on our problem. We have not build a major water storage facility since 1979. Then there were 20 million here, now it’s nearly double that number. Plus, Los Angeles has had two of it’s traditional sources of water cut substantially (Colorado and Owens Rivers) and our agriculture has been allowed to expand in a major fashion. Right now, we can’t store all the early runoff from rain, because we have to make room for the snow melt. The majority of those releases just go out to sea through San Francisco Bay. Unfortunately, the tree huggers keep the building of new reservoirs tied up in court, so the problem gets worse. Desalinization would have been a good idea if we had kept our nuclear power plants, but they are on their way out, so the only way to get electricity to run a desal plant would have to come from fossil fuels which are also no no’s. So like our financial situation, our water situation is in the same place, and the idiot voters won’t see it coming until it’s really here. I just want it to crash here, the sooner the better.