Bracing for a crisis, towns relying on the hard-hit Russian River have imposed stringent mandates on residents and coastal communities may have to truck in water to make it through the year. Instead, residents are facing a patchwork of restrictions. This time, there is no statewide emergency, no universal mandate and no standardized water waste rules. Credit: NASA Credit: NASAĭuring the last drought, in 2015, Californians were ordered to cut their water use by an average of 25% statewide. It’s currently holding only 41% of its historic average for this time of year.
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This satellite image shows how full Lake Oroville, which supplies much of the state’s drinking water, was in June 2019 and how shallow and dry it is in June 2021. And every region and every water district has a different mix of water supply options and water demands. “There is, of course, no single Northern California or Southern California when it comes to water,” said Peter Gleick, founder of the Pacific Institute, a global water think tank. Decades of planning and extraordinary engineering and technology keep the water flowing to arid places. But drought resilience is manufactured, too.
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