Opinion: Newsom is right to lift California’s drought restrictions, but he must prioritize water storage
Most importantly for our immediate water future, the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada is at a level that ties the previous all-time record from the 1950s. While the months of rain in our own backyards have been great for our Southern California suburban lawns — or xeriscapes, whatever — it’s the coming late-spring and early-summer runoff into rivers from that melting snow that will fully enable us to turn on our kitchen taps or water the roses without worrying that the pipes will go dry.
But after the nine “atmospheric rivers” that drenched us in January and that continued to a lesser degree in the months thereafter, which the Drought Monitor calls “copious precipitation,” “Central California’s Sierra Nevada mountains and foothills are now free of drought and abnormal dryness for the first time since January 2020.”
But late last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom finally faced the facts and agreed to end some of the hardline water restrictions he had put in place for years and increase water supply to the agencies that bring it to us.
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