Environmental reporter Abrahm Lustgarten began investigating the water crisis a year and a half ago for the ProPublica series Killing the Colorado. He tells Fresh Air'sDave Davies that he initially thought the water crisis was the result of climate change or drought. Instead, Lustgarten says, "It's the policy and the management that seem to be having a greater effect than the climate."
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Powerful picture showing a municipal tanker that supplied water to New Delhi residents after authorities secured a canal damaged by demonstrators.  

​When the World Economic Forum, a Swiss non-profit dedicated to “improving the state of the world,” released its annual Global Risks Report last year it cited “water crises” as the number one global risk in terms of impact. This is significant because for the past 8 years, the number one global risk in terms of impact had been financial in nature (either asset price collapse, fiscal crises, or major systemic financial failure), but 2015 was the first year that saw a climate related issue top the list of risks.
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The prolonged downpour—a harbinger of the imminent El Niño ... California, despite the ever-present threat of drought, is way more profligate. ... By the end of 2015, California's lakes and reservoirs were around two-thirds empty. ... reservoirs were needed to capture yet more of the runoff from winter storms.​
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