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    George Skelton: California state government is admirably trying to address drought. It's a tough nut to crack

    by George Skelton, Los Angeles Times Oct 25, 2021 3 minutes

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — We just finished the second-driest water season on record in California. Worse, it was the driest two-year period.

    Only 1924 was drier, according to the state Department of Water Resources. And back then, California had a population of just 4.5 million. Now we have 39.5 million people gulping water — plus a lot of overplanted thirsty nut orchards in the arid San Joaquin Valley.

    The two dry years "surpass 'the great drought' of '76-'77," says DWR Director Karla Nemeth. And the most recent drought years in the middle of the last

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