Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
If you live in California the drought message is loud and clear: SAVE WATER.
Yet even with a drastic cut in use by residents and business owners, the state has even les water available than what we first thought.
This isn't news to scientists or lawmakers, as ProPublica's senior reporter, Abrahm Lustgarten writes in his latest piece.
"The thing is in California, our state water officials don't really know how much water we have, and that's something they don't really make public," he said on Take Two. "But they don't have a good estimate of the total ground water supply for example and there's a new law passed last year that will help them reach a number... but that will take a couple of decades."
Take Two's A Martinez checks in with Lustgarten about "double counting" water in the dry lands of the West. Click on the audio above to hear the full interview.