The problem is there's less storage capacity than in the 70s due to dam demolition and no new reservoirs, despite being funded in 2014. In abnormally wet years, like 2022-2023, excess water floods communities and washes into the ocean. This is entirely on the shoulders of progressive legislators and the procession of governors in the state that kowtow to the whims of a few conservation groups who would like nothing better than for California to lose half its population.