With California’s rainy season wrapping up, will we see water restrictions?
The start of April means that California’s rainy season is coming to an end. Things are looking pretty good this year, but there are some caveats. The snowpack across the Sierra Nevada and the Colorado River Basin — both critical stores of water — is hovering slightly above average, though it’s nowhere near what we saw last winter. … It’s looking unlikely, as our reservoirs are quite full and we’ve had a good showing of snow. “We pulled back on restrictions last year, however, we’re telling people to use their common sense,” said Adel Hagekhalil, CEO of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. The public agency will neither be drawing from or putting water into storage, though that’ll change if the allocation increases. According to Hagekhalil, the MWD has enough water to help Southern California get through the next three years.
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