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We are all hoping the current El Niño will bring an end to the drought. Whether or not we’ll continue to receive normal or above-normal precipitation is still a question, though an end to the drought may be unlikely this year. Whatever the outcome this year, future droughts are certain.

In 2014, California’s voters passed Proposition 1, a $7.12 billion water bond. While the bond contained $2.7 billion earmarked for water storage projects including dams and reservoirs, few if any such projects are currently underway.

California’s current snowpack is the deepest it has been in five years — a modest, yet encouraging milestone in a period of prolonged drought.

Readings of the Sierra Nevada snowpack on Tuesday showed water content statewide was 18.7 inches, or 115% of the historical average for that date, according to the California Department of Water Resources.

Environmental Protection Agency officials were in Carlsbad on Wednesday to announce more than $182 million in federal funding that will be funneled to drinking water and wastewater infrastructure improvements throughout California.

EPA Regional Administrator Jared Blumenfeld made the announcement at the Carlsbad Water Recycling Facility, which has received about $37 million in low-interest loans funded by the federal agency over the past several years to nearly double output at the plant.

Despite a recent stretch of warm weather in San Diego, climate experts say there is still a good chance for more strong El Niño storms for the next 2-3 months.

Experts from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, the Desert Research Institute and UC Santa Barbara delivered the “California Winter Status Update” on Tuesday. They said El Niño’s warmer ocean temperatures will stick around until mid- to late spring.

Folsom Lake hit an important milestone over the weekend: Even though most of the slips at the marina are still mired in mud, it could be just a matter of days before hundreds of boats can come out of dry storage in the marina parking lot.

The surface of the lake rose to 400 feet above sea level Sunday morning, prompting California State Parks to lift the 5 mile-per-hour speed limit that had been in place since early summer.