California released their most recent drought update Monday, Aug. 1, confirming that California has entered “the dry summer months with below-average reservoir storage and with the state’s largest reservoir, Shasta Lake, at critically low levels.”These intensely hot conditions were expected to continue through November and will result in a late start to water year 2023, and the extension of fire season. The current outlook for water year 2023 is yet “another year of drought, as the third consecutive winter with La Nina conditions is expected.”The state is currently taking action to prepare for the possibility of a fourth dry year, and all of California’s 58 counties are under a drought emergency proclamation. Californians were asked to reduce their water usage by 15% ov
