During a drought, where does the water evaporated from lakes and rivers go? If it just went into the atmosphere you’d expect that to then quickly get saturated and start raining.

Question

During a drought, where does the water evaporated from lakes and rivers go? If it just went into the atmosphere you’d expect that to then quickly get saturated and start raining.

In: Earth Science

Answer 1

Drought can be caused by the diversion of water. In CA, so much of our water goes into ag, bottling and industry that it has really affected the water table and the supply of water in rivers, lakes, creeks etc in the northern part of the state. Hence drought.