Climate change threatens to dramatically shrink the amount of water California can deliver over the next 20 years and could reduce supplies available from the State Water Project by up to 23%, according to new projections released Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration.
The analysis by the California Department of Water Resources examined a range of climate change scenarios and projected that by 2043, the massive network of reservoirs and canals that supply more than half the state’s population could decline between 13% and 23%.
Read more at the Los Angeles Times.