The wet winter and hearty snowpack will ease drought concerns in some of the hardest-hit areas of the West when summer comes. But many places have racked up such dramatic deficits that a single season can’t forestall the dire water supply concerns.
, which rates the severity of droughts on a scale of “abnormally dry” to “exceptional drought.”
In California, “this drought will be over for some parts of the state in some ways. The reservoirs are mostly going to fill,” said Jay Lund, the vice director of watershed sciences at the University of California, Davis. “We’re still likely to see some ecological problems in the forest and with endangered fish species for a bit longer, but I think we’re into a much more normal year.”
Overuse concerns are even more urgent in the Colorado River Basin, where states continue to negotiate over how to cut water use as reservoir levels drop to concerning levels. About 40 million people depend on the Colorado River’s water supply, which has diminished during drought over the last 23 years and because of overuse.
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