How many dams did they tear down and let snow-melt and rain run right into the Pacific?
I don’t think that any dams have been torn down. The real issue is that the State hasn’t added more lakes, catch basins, settling ponds or anything else to capture the water when we do get good rains.
You can trace this back to Nixon signing the Endangered Species Act in 1973.
The ESA allowed environmental extremists at the US Fish & Wildlife Service in 1973 to declare the (worthless) Delta Smelt an endangered species, preventing the State of California from building any structure that could possibly send this glorified minnow wannabe to the extinction it richly deserves.
So billions of gallons of freshwater is allowed to flow into the Pacific instead of being captured for the benefit of wicked and lowly humans.
That’s Your Federal Government At Work. Not that the La Raza Communists running Sacramento would do anything different even if they could.