re: Why is California drying up?

Truthfully....

We have been taken over by what are effectively eco-terrorists. The Delta Smelt is a non-native fish and we dump 80+ billion (that's not a typo) gallons of water from the Delta into the Bay annually to preserve it when only 4 of them have been found by UC Davis since 2018. What could 80 billion gallons do for us? A lot. So yes, while we are currently in a drought we're doing an extraordinary amount of damage to ourselves in order to preserve a non-native fish that can't be found. We need to continue to build water infrastructure to capture what we can, continue to improve farming irrigation technology and get rid of the hard left prog types.