Filling up the reservoirs ain’t gonna happen until the next El Nino cycle, if ever.
And then the idiots of California will squawk and squabble until they get to suck them dry...again.
Lake Mead and Lake Powell were always full when I was a kid in Arizona 6 decades ago. But that was when California had 15 million people, Arizona had maybe 1.5 million, Utah at about 1 million and Nevada basically had like a couple hundred thousand. No way the upper Colorado has the capacity to sustain the current populations AND high water consumption Ag in the San Joaquin, while draining the Klamath/Sacramento rivers to keep the snail darters alive.
We had full reservoirs here in California in 2019 after the massive snow year that winter. They drained them to half full just on the EPA demands alone. Now they bitch about a drought. The current weather looks just like it did years ago. In fact, we’ve had nothing like the drought of ‘76-’77 since then. On the contrary, the last three El Nino events have been spectacular, and the “droughts” were merely somewhat below average.
Those white stripes above the water in the lakes behind the dams are gonna stay there. First saw them in the late ‘70s, don’t think they’re going away.
“We had full reservoirs here in California in 2019”
I could give a rip what happens in CA. I am talking about where the real people live, east of that hole of a third world country-the land of fruits and nuts.