What we need is a new drought vocabulary in California. It seems that every type of shortage of water in California is called a drought. And logically speaking, if everything is called a drought, nothing is. Typically, we associate the word drought with a water shortage condition of natural origin. But not every "drought" is a drought. Some water shortages we call drought are thought mostly to be natural, some climatological, some judicial, some demographic, and some regulatory. But they all end up being called drought. When in doubt, call everything a drought seems to be the rule. So a...