Editorial: Drought and flood, California's double whammy (via latimesopinion )
So do we have too much water or not enough? The only honest answer, as head-spinning as it may be, is that we have both problems at the same time. Lake Mead, and farther up the Colorado River, Lake Powell — Southern California’s two big out-of-state water supplies — remain dangerously low and will not fill again, despite aMeanwhile, reservoirs in California are full. But much of that precious water will have to be released to make room for melting snow.
We once had enough reservoirs in place to store sufficient water to see us through the occasional dry winter and capture enough runoff and snowmelt to protect us from flooding. But no number of dams can hold back enough water to outlast a 10-year drought or protect us from cataclysmic flooding. None of that means it’s time to pack up and leave. The California of the foreseeable future will continue to be a remarkably livable place, perhaps with fewer almond and pistachio orchards, because those trees can’t survive weeks of soaking roots in wet times and because there will be insufficient water to keep them alive in dry times.
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