Snow Pack Coming Back But Reservoirs CA Lack

El Nino storms are bringing California some drought relief

But our water storage system may lead us to future grief

El Nino water everywhere and not enough reservoirs to it store

The snowpack is up but we still need much more

California’s reservoir system is designed to store only precipitation falling in one year

If we are experiencing global warming, here is a valid fear

If precipitation falls as rain in the mountains as opposed to snow

Or if it falls as snow but due to warmer temps melts faster, it will into the dams more quickly flow

The dams may not be able to hold the torrents and over the spillways and into the ocean it will go

Not enough seeping into our aquifers below

Rather than exploring the idiocy of spending billions on a bullet train

We need to be spending more to build more reservoirs to capture and store more run off and rain

To really overcome any future return of crippling drought

Continue to conserve but build desalinization plants to take from seawater the salt out

© January 24, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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