Another drought will emerge soon enough in California. But right now, the biggest threat this spring is flooding.
Gov. Gavin Newsom came close but couldn’t quite bring himself to say it: The drought’s over.
There’s just something about California governors and water officials that prevents them from admitting we’re through a dry spell and into a wet period. “It would be nice to have a governor say that the drought is over. But unfortunately, complication requires nuance.” Sure, but a California governor has vast powers. Why couldn’t he do all those things — expediting recovery from the last drought while preparing for the next — without asserting that the drought persists?
Secretary Wade Crowfoot of the state Natural Resources Agency is a drought hard-liner. He noted that two parts of California — the Southeastern region that relies on Colorado River water and the Klamath Basin near Oregon — “continue to experience acute water shortages.”“If we declared the drought over and removed emergency provisions,” Crowfoot said, “we would be unable to quickly and effectively provide support where those conditions still exist.
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