Is the drought over?

[Johnny2X2X]

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?CA

Just an all time wet Winter and Spring for CA. Less than 9% of CA remains in a moderate drought, another 25% is in abnormally dry conditions.

What are Californians hearing and seeing? Is this drought over? Will it bounce right back to drought conditions with a dry Summer? I know there's several iniatives in place to handle water more smartly, are people still going to conserve?

[CrispyQ]

1. One good season does not end a drought. This year was an exception.

It took 17 years to fill Lake Powell.

Also, the estimates they used for how much water would flow into Lake Powell over time were based on several years when precipitation was higher than normal.

We refuse to address the the issue at the base of all of our issues: There are too damned many of us! Eight billion people all trying to live large, consuming as much as they can, in a finite system. Gee, what could go wrong?

Six billion miracles is enough!

I bought that bumper sticker back at the turn of the century.

[Biophilic]

2. In the 1970s I watched home owners in LA

wash their driveways down each evening with lots of water. At the same time the folks in San Francisco area were rationed to 40 gallons a day. At the time a toilet flush took 6 gallons. I don’t think they’ve gotten smarter. So no, I think at least a large part of the population will think all is well, I can use as much water as I want and i deserve it.

[TeamProg]

3. Hmm, what's "a large part"?

[Biophilic]

5. Good question. I live in SW Florida.

We are in a drought with water restrictions regarding lawns. Everyone of my liberal Democratic friends cheat. I don’t have any republican friends so I can’t say regarding them. We really have become a nation of ‘it’s ok for me to do it’. I don’t have a lawn so I can’t say but I suspect I’m no better than the rest.

[TeamProg]

4. BTW, 80% of available water goes to agriculture that gets exported.

So the reality is that Calif. exports water in the form of food.