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California Drought Status
Drought Monitor20160517_ca_none

http://www.californiadrought.org/drought/current-conditions/

Drought conditions continue to improve slightly over the last two weeks. While 63% of the state is still under severe-to-exceptional drought as of May 17, 5.5% is deemed drought-free, an improvement from 4.3% two weeks ago.

Precipitation

The Sierra snowpack is diminishing rapidly. As of May 23, statewide snow-water content is 29% of average, down from 57% two weeks precip052416ago. See these snowpack plots for changes over time.

Cumulative precipitation is still about average in the San Joaquin region, and above average in the Northern Sierra region. However, it is currently below average in the Tulare Lake Basin.

Reservoir Conditions

Recent storms and melting snow have led water levels in California’s major reservoirs (representing 27.3 million acre-feet of storage) to increase to 67% of statewide capacity, compared to 65% two weeks ago. These levels represent 89% of reported average for May 24. Lake Oroville, Shasta, and Folsom, are now at 113%, 107%, and 106% of historical average, respectively. However, New Melones, another major reservoir with a 2.4 million acre-feet capacity, is currently at 41% of historical average.

Groundwater Conditions

The most recent data on groundwater conditions are based on measurements taken in the fall 2015. Maps of spring and fall groundwater level changes can be found here and a map highlighting significant changes is available here. Areas with the greatest concern, such as areas where groundwater levels have declined by more than 100 feet, can be found in parts of the Tulare Lake, South Coast, and Colorado River hydrologic regions.

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Central Valley[edit]

See also: Climate change in California § Drought

In February 2014, after three consecutive years of below-normal rainfall, California faced its most severe drought emergency in decades with fish populations in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta in unprecedented crisis due to the decades of massive water exports from Northern California to south of the Delta via state and federal water projects. “Fisheries... people and economic prosperity of northern California are at grave risk", per Bill Jennings, Director of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance [38] Half a million acres of Central Valley farmland supposedly was in danger of going fallow due to drought.

On 5 February 2014 the House passed a bill to increase flows from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to the Central Valley, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley Emergency Water Delivery Act (H.R. 3964; 113th Congress). This would suspend the very recent efforts to restore the San Joaquin River since 2009, won after 18 years of litigation, with increased releases from the Friant Dam east of Fresno. Democratic Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer proposed emergency drought legislation of $300 million aid, and to speed up environmental reviews of water projects, so state and federal officials have "operational flexibility" to move water south, from the delta to San Joaquin Valley farms.[39][40]

On February 14, 2014, President Barack Obama visited near Fresno and announced $170 million worth of initiatives, with $100 million for ranchers facing livestock losses and $60 million to help food banks. Obama joked about the lengthy and incendiary history of water politics in California, saying, "I'm not going to wade into this. I want to get out alive on Valentine's Day."[41]

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