Given the 2022-23 winter and the filling of northern California reservoirs, millions in California falsely think the state water scarcity situation is over. But two-thirds of the people in the state live in Southern California which has no large reservoir. Lake Mead and Lake Powell (both on the northern Arizona border) are the two largest reservoirs in North America. Lake Mead’s water capacity is 7.5 times larger than the capacity of Lake Oroville, the largest reservoir in California. … We can be near 100 percent certain [Colorado River] states will increase in population, interstate solutions will be delayed by litigation, and global warming will intensify. Global warming was well established late in the 20th century.
-Written by Mark Bird, a retired sociology professor and author of the book “800 Laws in Sociology.”