The amount of water that was 'lost' is estimated to be 700,000-acre-feet -- that's roughly 228 billion gallons of water, enough to fill over 345,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
The state is facing its third consecutive dry year. Last year was one of the driest on record.
Jacobsen is referring to an alleged miscalculation by the California Department of Water Resources and the State Water Resources Control Board. The amount of water that was"lost" is estimated to be 700,000-acre feet -- that's roughly 228 billion gallons of water, enough to fill over 345,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools."We can't get back lost water but we can certainly take the steps to ensure this never happens again going forward," said Asssemblymember Adam Gray, D-Merced.
The Department of Water Resources sent Action News a statement -- saying in part,"DWR has invested millions of dollars in new forecasting tools and entered into new partnerships with local, state and federal agencies to coordinate all of our resources. We know it will take all of us working together to manage through this drought and we hope Assemblymember Gray will work with us too.
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