Your comment is simply born of ignorance. Both Lake Mead and Lake Powell are artificial reservoirs for the purpose of water storage. Another storage facility would tax the Colorado river too highly. In fact, Lake Powell serves Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico. Hardly, bastons of liberal Democrats. Moreover, the vast majority of the water usage in California is by the farmers. Over a third of the country's vegetables and two-thirds of the country's fruits and nuts are grown in California. Furthermore, water conservation requires the government to issue regulations regarding water usage, a type of government control that conservatives generally reject. You'd do well to give up your hatred of Democrats and form your opinions based on facts, not blind ideology.

@TyKC And, you would appear to be a blithering........

My comment was about the treehuggers not allowing any state gov'mt to build any additional reservoirs in last 30+ years. Where the water goes or is shared with is irrelevant. More population, including farming to feed them, requires more infrastructure to bridge over irregular weather. Water shortages are caused by gov'mt, not mother nature. REgs are not needed at all, if the former political party of slavery tried some planning for others besides themselves.
But, that selfishness is typical of a political party like the Demos. They've allowed themselves to become infested with commie trash and bootlickers.

@bobbo666 Not true. Farmers are digging wells as we speak all over California. But the wells are expensive and have to be dug deep. Trees need water too. So, your comment is just baseless nonsense.

@TyKC Yes, you are blithering.
Wells have nothing to do with the need for surface storage.
The commie trash and their bootlickers down here in CaCaLand have not allowed water storage to be expanded for the 30+ years I've lived here.
Oh, you realized that trees need water? Geesh, what an insight. So do crops, grass, etc. You must be a grad of a liberal college to display such a scintillating grasp of the obvious. Go away, troll.

@bobbo666 I really don't think this is a political issue. If what you say is true, then Lake Mean should be empty, and Lake Powell should be full, since, as you claim, the only mismanagement occurred in California. But that's not the case. If there was water mismanagement, it happened across the West not just in California.