FR Publisher Jon Fleischman is in the midst of a multi-day trip to the State’s Capitol, maintaining, renewing and initiating contacts to better serve FR readers. This morning we’re pleased to offer this guest commentary from Lester Snow penned exclusively for the FlashReport. Snow serves in the Schwarzenegger Administration as the Director of the State Deparment of Water Resources…
This year we’re all feeling the pain caused by a serious water crisis. This won’t be the last year we face a water crisis, unless we do something to prevent it from happening again. In order to prepare for dry years and droughts, California desperately needs to invest in our state’s water infrastructure system.
Various factors have contributing to the drought conditions we currently face. The Sierra snowpack is only 67 percent of normal, Northern California has just experienced the driest spring on record, while Southern California experienced record low rainfall, and major California reservoirs are alarmingly low. Complicating these already dire conditions are the court imposed cutbacks in Delta water exports.
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