That’s been the Republican response, but if you aren’t getting enough rain during the wet period, that doesn’t help any. There’s no longer any play in the system, no excess to store.
Yeah. Not just that, but it has broad impacts on ecosystem and waterway health. There’s a minimum amount of water that needs to flow through rivers for multiple reasons - even discounting fish and river-side ecosystems, we’re hitting the point where there’s concern about water levels dropping low enough that where rivers meet the sea, salt water will infiltrate upstream, getting into groundwater, etc. It’s a big point of controversy with plans to pump water from the Sacramento river to Southern California. (Especially since Southern California relies entirely on imported water but still hasn’t started the kind of harsh water-rationing efforts Northern California has…)
