Satellite imagery shows Shasta Lake in July 2019, left, and June 2021. The state’s largest reservoir is at about 35% of its capacity, officials said. The white ring is the receded shore line.
As the West descends deeper into drought, climate and water experts are growing increasingly alarmed by California’s severely shriveling reservoirs.
On Monday, Shasta Lake — the largest reservoir in the state — held a scant 1.57 million acre-feet of water, according to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, or about 35% of its capacity.
A series of satellite images captured by NASA show just how dramatically the water level has fallen.
The idea of piping water from the rain drenched east to the west coast doesn’t seem so far fetched if there is a pipe line (Colonial Pipeline) that carries 3 million barrels of fuel per day 5,500 miles from Texas and New York.
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