Opinion: As El Niño Looms, California Needs to Get Serious About Water Management ...Middle East

Growing Tulare Lake cuts off 6th Avenue south of Corcoran in Kings County in May. Courtesy DWR Oct. 1 is the beginning of what hydrologists call the “water year.” Historically, California’s reservoirs are near their lowest levels by this point after months of being drawn down, mostly to irrigate fields and orchards, during the state’s precipitation-free summer. This October is quite different. Last winter’s heavy rain and snow storms, generated by a series of atmospheric rivers, filled reservoirs even as dam managers fully opened their gates to send as much water downstream as possible. So much rain and snow fell in the southern San Joaquin Valley that Tulare Lake, once on

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