How about the water table? There’s not enough storage. That means run off and it will not last.
Almost all of the water table measurements on the state site are from 2023, so there’s no current data. This year will help, but we need another year or three of normal to wet winters to restore ground water in the central valley. As long as we don’t go back into a drought, it will recover. But we WILL need more reservoirs and desalination, because there WILL be more drought years ahead. Droughts are just part of the western US climate.