Lake Shasta And Lake Oroville

kalw.org: What's it going to take to get out of the drought? By Hana Baba and Audrey Dilling

Right now, the state’s two biggest reservoirs, Lake Shasta and Lake Oroville, are around half full. Both those reservoirs feed into the Delta, which supplies about 23 million people in the state with water, plus farmlands. In an average year those reservoirs hover around three quarters full, so we don’t need them to be filled to the brim. But that’s still quite a difference.