California's Water Supply Is a Mega Reservoir, but It's Not Enough

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The backbones of California's water supply are the six mega reservoirs, Shasta, Oraville, Trinity, New Melonas, Don Pedro, and San Luis. Back on November the 8th, the state's six biggest mega reservoirs were 33% full. In normal years, they would have been 54% full, but the drought kept them low. "It's going to take more than this to get us out of the whole we've dug ourselves," he says.

Rain is good for California, but the state was not prepared for what might be a megastorm. KQED’s Dan Brekke assesses the damage from the San Francisco Bay Area and the Pacific Institute’s Peter Gleick explains how we can be better prepared for future storms.

This episode was produced by Siona Peterous and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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