Not exactly. I mean, you're not really wrong, but you underestimate the severity of the current conditions. Here's one of my favorite articles on that: http://w

Not exactly. I mean, you're not really wrong, but you underestimate the severity of the current conditions. Here's one of my favorite articles on that: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/science/californias-history-of-drought-repeats.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/14/science/californias-histor... (also: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-ingram-california-drought-20140203-story.html http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-ingram-california...) The trend right now is drier than anything else in the last thousand years. If this were merely another instance of the 1980's drought, we'd all be coping more or less OK. But, it's drier than that and we've added a lot of population since then and, as you point out, no additional water storage.