Despite December storms, water supplies remain low in many areas. Some managers expect to impose severe restrictions on their customers. Story from @CalMatters.
December has delivered a powerful punch of storms to California. But the wet weather comes with a dry dose of reality: The state’s largest reservoirs remain badly depleted, projected water deliveries are low, wells are drying up, and the Colorado River’s water, already diminished by a megadrought, is severely overallocated.