Recently, California conducted its fourth and final measure of the Sierra Nevada snowpack survey. The results, reported on April 1st, indicated a snowpack that is 59 percent of average the second straight year for a low snow yield.
With the official closing of the state’s rainy season, we wanted to take a look today at how all of this plays out for the next several months of 2021.
California is poised to enter a second year of worsening drought conditions after a paltry showing of rain and snow going back to at least 2020.
How are the politics of water, the politics of drought, so critical to understanding California and its politics?
To discuss further, KCBS Radio Anchors Patti Reising and Jeff Bell are joined by California Department of Water Resources Spokesman Chris Orrock.
