OK yes we got it bad but how bad? What we are seeing are the old farm fields that are only covered in a few feet of water at full pool. I fish and have spent a lot of time in the lakes around here. There are a lot of deep pools in them and what they are talking about is the water pickup that is close to the dam and the level of it as to the number of days tell it gets close. It is set so that it has a cover depth of water over it and not pumping water from the top and not taking mud from the bottom. The level was based on a average depth of the water over a say 50 year time and it just so happens that we are hitting a low. If they lower the intake it will add x number of days to the drinking water. If I remember the water around the intake was in 70' being down around 12' to 15' gives 50' to 55' or so round the dam or so. There is also other very large deep pools that are at the same depth and level as the dam that will fill in and not pond, feeding the water intake.
Think of it this way also, I work for the State, still don't trust them in some ways but don't you think that something would be being built or done if the real fact was on X date like 90 days we will be out of water? think of what would happen, what people would do, in the old days that is what killed off thousands of people because of no clean water and no way to wash up. There would be a lot of big plants now that would be getting storage tanks and people would be geting storage tanks to store there water, the price of water would go up like gas, and would not be on the shelf at the store.
To me Yes it is bad, Yes it will self correct and the new lake and dam will help with all the new building, but I call bull on all the news groups that want to feed us all the crap every day because they don't have anything better to do.
