KQED KQED Newsroom March 14, 2015
And this is what the lake looked like last year. And this is what the snowpack looks like in 2013. And this is what it looks like just a year later. State Officials Say the Sierra Snowpack is near record lows and any late season rainfall wont have much of an impact. In the Central Valley farmers are watching their crops wither and ranchers are selling off cattle to pay for hay to feed their remaining cows. Ive got to sell more cattle so i can buy more hay. So the herd gets smaller and smaller. And im getting poorer and poorer. Farmers who are able to are drilling wells pumping water from reser...