Water, Water Everywhere In California – And Not Enough Reservoir Space To Store It

After five years of drought, could California really have so much rain and snow there’s no room to store all the water?The answer – as the state’s water picture careens from bust to boom – is yes. One month into an exceptionally stormy 2017, river flows though the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta have been so powerful that the massive pumps that ship north-state water to Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley have roared at full throttle for weeks.