article_snippet.sent: It's been scary, actually, as to how low We reservoirs have gotten ...
article_snippet.sent: A section of the California aqueduct with a rainbow in the background is pictured in Palmdale, California .
article_snippet.sent: The rain and snowfall is a big change from last week, when Gov. Jerry Brown, attending the last snowpack survey of the season, stood in dry, brown grass at a site normally covered in snow this time of year and announced he had ordered cities and towns to cut the state's overall water usage by 25 percent compared with 2013 levels.
article_snippet.sent: The snowpack makes The snowpack way into rivers and streams and provides 30 percent of the state's water.
article_snippet.sent: Sign of the times: A sign along Interstate 5 reading 'Stop the Congress Created DUST BOWL' is pictured in the Central Valley of California. 
article_snippet.sent: California governor Jerry Brown ordered the state's first-ever mandatory water cuts on 01 April, in the fourth year of a devastating drought that has dried up wells, forced mandatory rationing and jeopardized crops in one of the largest agricultural producing regions in the world .
article_snippet.sent: A sign along Interstate 5 reading 'No Water =
article_snippet.sent: No Jobs' and criticizing politicians for California's water problems is pictured in the Central Valley of California California .