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This is pure BS!
We had a much worse drought in ‘76- ‘77 when even the wells were drying up.
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I remember that. All the lawns were dried up brown, far more than now. Followed by a deluge of rain some six years later or so, when there was flooding. We have cycles of drought and floods. What we're going through now is not the worst, just seems so because of bad political use of water and a massive influx of people. The floods will return (but the drought may get worse before then).
No it’s not. The Aquifers are drying up and are not being replenished. California is using 8.3 Billion Gallons of Groundwater a day and the those aquifers cannot ever regain.
Farmers in the Central Valley and others places and have a year maybe two before those resources dry up and it’s gone.
There are few options and Brown and others should have been planning for the water future of California 50 Years ago and didn’t.