Grist: Bad news, Californians: Even though some state officials have declared the drought over, you`re in for three more years of below-average water levels, according to a new report from UCLA.
The study found that despite El Nio pushing up precipitation across the state this winter, the effect of the drought that began in 2012 is so severe that the Sierra Nevada snowpack isn`t expected to recover until 2019. That`s assuming those mountains actually see snow in the next couple of years - a lot of it....