As California’s historic snowfall gives way to the warmth of Spring, that snowpack will eventually melt, creating an even more historic risk for flooding in places woefully unprepared to handle it.
If the tunnel had been in place when the series of rainstorms battered California beginning in December, it could have saved 202,000 acre-feet of water, according to state water managers.
Despite the storms that have deluged California this winter, the state remains dogged by drought. And one of the simplest solutions — collecting and storing rainfall — is far more complicated than it seems.
