One of my wife's rich home counties may be in trouble next Summer

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due to the drought as she used to live in Sausalito  :

One of California’s Wealthiest Counties Could Run Out of Water Next Summer

To increase supply during the severe drought, Marin County is considering buying water from agricultural areas and piping it across the San Francisco Bay.


Welcome to the future in Marin County, one where a $2 million house with an ocean view doesn’t necessarily come with a reliable water supply.

Water managers are taking extraordinary measures to keep faucets flowing should the state enter a third year of a punishing drought this winter. That this affluent redwood-studded ecotopia faces such a possibility, though, is a harbinger of a climate-constrained destiny that is fast arriving.


“These droughts are now on a new timeline,” says Newsha Ajami, a hydrologist and director of urban water policy at Stanford University’s Water in the West program. “There used to be at least 10 years in between droughts in California, which was time enough for water ecosystems to recover.”

No longer. The last California drought, which persisted six years, ended in 2017. The current one began three years later and poses an existential threat to places like Marin County, which rely on local water sources for most or all of their supply. The past year has been the second driest on record in California.

That’s forcing a reckoning with a century of water management that has largely focused on expanding supply rather than on conservation and managing demand.