Drop In Snowpack Exacerbates California's Drought

PALMDALE, CA - MAY 05: The California Aqueduct carries water from the Sierra Nevada Mountains to southern California as urgent calls for California residents to conserve water grow on May 5, 2008 near Palmdale, California. The California Department of Water Resources has announced that its final snow survey of the season indicates that snow depth and water content in the Sierra Nevada Mountains was only 67 percent of normal levels. In the northern Sierras, March and April proved to be the driest months since the state started measuring the snowpack in 1921. The Sierra snowpack is vital to California water supplies and officials are preparing plans for mandatory water conservation in the face of continuing drought. Dry conditions across the West have already doubled the wildfires this year and fire officials are bracing for a devastating summer with the potential of repeating the southern California fire storms that charred 800 square miles, destroyed 2,200 homes and killed 10 people last October. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
PALMDALE, CA - MAY 05: The California Aqueduct carries water from the Sierra Nevada Mountains to southern California as urgent calls for California residents to conserve water grow on May 5, 2008 near Palmdale, California. The California Department of Water Resources has announced that its final snow survey of the season indicates that snow depth and water content in the Sierra Nevada Mountains was only 67 percent of normal levels. In the northern Sierras, March and April proved to be the driest months since the state started measuring the snowpack in 1921. The Sierra snowpack is vital to California water supplies and officials are preparing plans for mandatory water conservation in the face of continuing drought. Dry conditions across the West have already doubled the wildfires this year and fire officials are bracing for a devastating summer with the potential of repeating the southern California fire storms that charred 800 square miles, destroyed 2,200 homes and killed 10 people last October. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
Drop In Snowpack Exacerbates California's Drought
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