why is California always in a drought crisis, but landlocked states in the Midwest are not?
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Mismanaged water infrastructure. The purpose of water reservoirs is to buffer the annual fluctuation of rainfall, but for it to work reservoir capacity has to be proportional to the population size. California’s water reservoirs haven’t been updated since the 1970s and the population has more than doubled since then. The result is that California has no buffer for fluctuation in rainfall, so a year that is below average immediately becomes a drought crisis.
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