Be careful. In Kalifornia one year, in order to maintain the crisis of the drought, the DemocRATS drained several reservoirs because ‘it might rain some more, and then there will be flooding.’
As I have stated previously, there is a very large body of water all along the western edge of Kalifornia. It is so large, some people call it an ocean Just a few desalination plants and no water worries.
Long before Israel started desalination, Israel brought water to the desert. Now that Israel has ramped up desalination, Israel sells water to its neighbors that will accept it.
They still will. Got some snow dusting over night on Mt. Rose just south of Reno. Same system giving burning man fits.
I lived in Oman many years past. This is on the Arabian Peninsula. Rainfall was scant to none. When I opened the tap for water it was there and clean. It came from the ocean via desalinization plants powered by abundant fossil fuels.
Oddly, California has abundant fossil fuels they refuse to exploit to the max. My sentiment is to let them swelter in the heat and be thirsty. The answer to their problem is desalinization using their fossil fuels and nuclear which they both refuse to exploit and use. I have no sympathy.
It seems so simple! But large scale desalinization requires lots of reliable, cheap energy, and Climafornia thinks energy is icky.
There are lots of lakes in California that are full. The feds run the dams and release the water. So stop with the myth of calif releasing all the rain water
Your first paragraph is in accurate. Because of inadequate storage, they’ve got to dump water according to certain schedules to leave room for melting snowpack. Across the northern Sierra, where the biggest reservoirs are, there was up to 600 inches of snow in the ground at the end of the season. If room hadn’t been made in the reservoirs there would have been massive flooding in The Central Valley, as was historically the case before the age of the dams. And even so, while vastly more storage could be created, I heard one estimate in early January, after the first big waves of storms, that 30 trillion gallons of water had fallen on the state as rain. No amount of storage could handle the water resources in a wet year.
It’s not a perfect system, but note that the biggest reservoirs in the state, are still not that far from full. Shasta, the biggest at 4.5 million acre feet, is still 78% full