California Tries to Refill Its Biggest Reservoir

After the wettest winter in 122 years of record-keeping, California’s reservoirs are filling up again, with more than 22 million acre-feet of water in the 46 reservoirs tracked by the state Department of Water Resources (they’d be even fuller if it weren’t for flooding worries at the now-infamous Oroville Dam and several other reservoirs in the Sierra Nevada foothills): The snowpack in the state’s mountains, while it hasn’t quite broken records across the board, currently holds even more water than the reservoirs — about 29 million acre-feet.