The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) will be increasing water supplies to 100 percent for Californians from the State Water Project, the DWR announced Thursday.
The increased water supply comes after record winter storms with heavy amounts of rainfall hit the state and filled up reservoirs, which saw an increase from 75 percent to 100 percent improvement. This increase is the most it’s been during the state’s drought since 2006, according to DWR.
California has experienced long periods of drought since 2006, with allocation dropping to a mere 5 percent last year due to the drought and the lack of meltwater refilling reservoirs.
However, the winter storms seen earlier this year quickly lifted the state out of the drought. Reservoirs across the state quickly filled up to above-average levels with record snowpack amounts, leaving no place dry….