“When someone has a glass of water at a friend’s house and they just knock it down the sink before they leave, I get kind of upset, ‘no you could’ve watered a plant’,” said Ava Johnson of Concord.
On the US Drought Monitor Map, the North and East Bay are covered in maroon – the color that represents the category no one wants to be in: exceptional drought.
Matt Graul with the East Bay Regional Park says that spells death for species already on the brink of extinction.
“We’re concerned that our endangered species, the California red legged frog and the California tiger salamander aren’t able to complete their full breeding cycle,” he said.