The always-alert Aquafornia blog posted an excellent summary of California's snowpack woes.

The Reader's Digest version? While Winter storms promised much, a dry spring means the Sierra snowpack has fallen far short of early expectations.

Faster than you can say "rationing," every major paper in the state jumped on the story.

From the Contra Costa Times:

California#8217;s snowpack is low for the second year in a row, leaving water managers across the state grappling with the triple threat of a dry year, depleted reservoirs and new environmental restrictions on pumping from the Delta.

The whole scenario would be amusing if so much wasn't at stake; a water-hungry state has largely maxed out its supplies -- doing an unbelievable amount of environmental damage in the process -- and yet somehow, water managers wanted to believe one good year would solve the problem.

Here at the Underground, we've got a bridge we'd like to sell to those same managers.

See you at the tap, Tom Chandler.