Last month gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency of an extended drought in California. According to governor’s office, California “faces water shortfalls in the driest year in recorded state history.” This drought doesn’t seem to be affecting us in any type of dramatic way, but farmers all over California are being affected the most. They are being faced with hard choices, as the drought threatens to ruin their crops. Even worse, a federal agency announced that California’s Central Valley will get zero percent water allocation.

The real question is, how extreme is the drought? The federal government says that every square mile of California is in some kind of drought. Rainfall in some of the most populated parts of California is all but nonexistent. Even though California will get some type of rain this week, it will still not be enough to end the drought. Our state is truly in a historical drought that will cost not only California but the country billions of dollars. At this point, it might take California a huge intervention to irrigate the Golden State.