and this study that came out last month showed that just in the last nine years, farmers, everybody who uses ground water has sucked out approximately the equivalent of two lake meads from under the colorado river basin, which lake meade is the largest reservoir in america. imagine taking two of them away you don t have very much left. the problem is it takes ground water tens of thousands of years to repop late to allow the water to seep into the aquifers. so we re using water that won t be there for another several my len ya. then you have the issue of the snow packs. there s very little snow. so last week governor brown went up with a bunch of water officials, they do an annual sight check and they went up to one of the snow fields and they put a ruler on the ground and there was nothing there. you couldn t even see any snow around lake tahoe. also across california the snow