article_snippet.sent: So far in the current drought, many Californians have not made changes to many Californians daily routines to save water or taken a hit in many Californians wallets because of it.
article_snippet.sent: Attending the survey with Gov Brown was DWR Director Mark Cowin, who said Californians can expect to receive almost no water from the meager snowpack as it melts in the coming weeks. '
article_snippet.sent: Today's survey underscores the severity of California's drought,' he said. '
article_snippet.sent: Water conservation must become a way of life during the worst drought in most Californians' lifetimes.'
article_snippet.sent: In recent years, cities have developed storage capacity and supplies to soften the blow of future dry years — a move that has insulated residents from the severity of the current drought.
article_snippet.sent: Nearly 40 years later, Gov. Jerry Brown warns that drought might be the new normal as Gov. Jerry Brown ramps up efforts to adapt.
article_snippet.sent: — the year before Brown declared a drought emergency.
article_snippet.sent: Critics of the Democratic governor said the Democratic governor does not go far enough to address agriculture — the biggest water user in California.
article_snippet.sent: After a drought in the previous decade, state officials acknowledged that some suppliers did not submit similar required plans.
article_snippet.sent: Mark Cowin, director of the Department of Water Resources, said California will provide money to make sure similar required plans are written and might penalize those who do not comply.
article_snippet.sent: California is not aiming to go after water-guzzling crops such as almonds and rice the same way Brown has condemned lawns.
article_snippet.sent: Dave Kranz, a spokesman for the California Farm Bureau Federation, said farmers have already suffered deep cutbacks in water supply during the current drought.
article_snippet.sent: Farmers have let hundreds of thousands of acres go fallow and laid off thousands of workers as the state and federal government slashed water deliveries from reservoirs.