Wow, I thought it was bad.....

[Tishimself]

Rain is of little help unless you get an over abundance of it. Too much run off and not enough captured. You need snow the melt slowly and runs down the naturally formed streams into rivers and lakes. It can pour in the low lands and we see zero benefit from it, straight to the ocean. It has to snow in the high lands above the rivers and lakes.

Yes, and because there is no snow (literally) there will be no runoff. No runoff means no streams, no rivers, and soon, no lakes. SoCal can syphon off the Colorado, but the spicot might be closed in the NoCal/Socal water system....