Editorial: Balancing Resources
From U-T San Diego, an edited transcript with California Secretary for Natural Resources John Laird:
“The thing about the drought that’s interesting for the general public and even a lot of stakeholders, is they are two, three or four weeks behind the severity of this. … If you look at the snowpack, which is the water source for 25 million Californians, after it melts it flows, and (the) January measurement was 7 percent of what we needed. Right now, even with a few storms, we’re back to where we were in 1977, which was (the worst drought on record). And the water project for the first time in its 54-year history is down to zero percent allocation.”