California's water supplies are in trouble as climate change worsens natural dry spells, especially in the Sierra Nevada
- Written by Roger Bales, Distinguished Professor of Engineering, University of California, Merced
Several of California's reservoirs were at less than one-third of their capacity in early December 2021.Martha Conklin, CC BY-NDCalifornia is preparing for a third straight year of drought, and officials are tightening limits on water use to levels never seen so early in the water year. Most of the state’s water reservoirs are well below...