A number of years ago kalifornia voters approved a big bond measure to build more dams. Needless to say the money got spent on everything but new reservoirs
AAANNND WE HAVE A WINNNAAAAHHHH!!!
CA Native, here; and so far as I know, in the past 40 years, this benighted State has built ONE new reservoir: Los Vaqueros in East Contra Costa County.
Our population has doubled, but our freshwater retention capacity has remained — for all intents and purposes — STATIC.
For the Legislative body overseeing a region that tends NATURALLY to the dry side to UTTERLY FAIL to ensure that reservoir capacity keeps pace with the State’s population amounts to nothing less than the intentional manufacture of a drought that was PREVENTABLE, and annually threatens both human lives and human livelihoods.
All involved need to be machine-gunned into a drainage ditch.