Polyploid

In the the last three years I've had multiple people tell me that California does not have a drought. I have been told that California's water issues are man-made.  I have been told that this is a media misrepresentation. California has been in drought. You could just look at drought.ca.gov to check, but that doesn't seem to be enough for some people. It's the government, and they feel that the government can't be trusted. So I want to demonstrate the facts as an eye-witness. First a little background on California hydrology. Much of California's water comes from snowpack in the mountains.  One third of LA's water supply comes from snowpack. For the last twenty five years I've been hiking out to small alpine lakes in the Sierra Nevadas. These lakes are fed directly by snowpack, and they drain naturally into streams and creeks.  They are unaffected by civil engineering. Since the drought started, these have been drying up. My most recent trip was in 202