Blog: Could California Weather a Mega-drought?
From the California WaterBlog by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, in a post by Jay Lund:
In the past 1,200 years, California had two droughts lasting 120-200 years. Could the state’s water resources continue to supply enough water to drink, grow crops and provide habitat for fish with such an extreme, prolonged drought? … The UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences explored this question a few years ago using computer models.