UCANR California may be more at risk of frequent and severe droughts now than in the past, according to Safeeq Khan, a University of California Cooperative Extension specialist. More water could be stored below our feet to help even out the cycles of drought and floods, specialist says. Liana Wolfe | May 26, 2021 Suggested Event Jun 15, 2021 to Jun 17, 2021 California has faced many droughts in the past, and we have always been able to manage them to some extent. However, with climate change creating a new hydrologic regime with more precipitation falling as rain than snow and higher evaporative demand, the state may be more at risk for drought now than in years past, according to Safeeq Khan, Cooperative Extension Specialist in Water and Watershed Sciences at the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resource.