Don’t count on it. Jerry will order the reservoirs drained for the salmon and delta smelt. If he can’t have a drought, he is going to make one by draining the reservoirs before summer.
I disagree. They can’t drain the water at high rates due to possible threat to all that very valuable farmland in the Delta (those islands in the Delta are some of the very best farmlands in all of California) and also too much fresh water going into San Pablo Bay can really affect the ecology of that bay. Given the fact the dams in northern California are going to be effectively full by late February at the rate things are going, there’s only two places to dump that water—down the Delta Menota Canal and the California Aquaduct.