Lakes are really low for there to be no drought, hard to turn off the water when it runs down the side of a mountain into the lake.
Low reservoirs do not make a drought, they make a water shortage.
By definition, a drought cannot be a shortage of enough water to withstand a normal rain cycle in California of 4 dry years and 1 wet year on average. There should be 4 years of backup water stored in reservoirs but there is only about a half year every year. So if it is going to be called a drought instead of a water shortage, then call it a structural drought because there is never enough stored water to last a normal water/rain cycle. California’s policy is not to build more dams but to squeeze more water out of the sponge of lawns of homeowners. As lawns continue to be replaced with rock gardens, urban areas will become hotter (urban heat island effect). Lawns cool homes. Go to a home in Palm Springs with a lawn and it is cooler than one with a rock garden. 40% of lake water goes to farming, 10% to cities, 50% for fish in California. While cities and farms have mandated conservation, California’s policy for water for the environment is wasting water by flushing it to the ocean.