[randita]

Wouldn't too many dubious alerts be risky if Davis was attempting to use them to political advantage? The result could be the old "boy cried wolf" scenario. People quickly turn a deaf ear to alerts when nothing substantial ever materializes. Then it's impossible to really get their attention when the alert absolutely has to be heeded.

It will be interesting to see what length Davis goes to in this, an election year, to keep the lights on during the sure to come heat waves.

The power brokers are no doubt salivating at the prospect of taking CA to the bank this summer. They'll have leverage like they've never had before.

On a related subject, I was just vacationing in the vicinity of the Glen Canyon and Hoover dams. Both Lake Powell and Lake Mead are 50+ feet below normal. I was told that the low water levels are due to persistent drought conditions combined with excessive releases of water to produce power for CA in the past couple of years. Do you know how much lower these lakes will be permitted to go down or doesn't it really matter? Will they just keep letting the water out as long as they can make a good profit on it?

[Robert357]

What is interesting is that the PNW has more snow pack than you can imagine yet some reservoirs are not full, because of fish flush to get young fry out to see and the snow not yet melting.

In other parts of the US, there is a real serious drought that is still continuing.

Your reservoir being 50 plus feet low could be no big deal or it could be a big deal depending on if you drainage basin winter snow has melted yet or not.