article_snippet: California will run out of water in 12 months, according to NASA scientist Jay Famiglietti.
article_snippet: California only has one year of supply left in California reservoirs due to persistent drought and is also running out of backup groundwater, Jay Famiglietti, senior water scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, wrote.
article_snippet: The drought means that total water storage in California, which has been in decline since 2002, has been sapped by the need to use the resource for farming, Snowpacks in California mountains near record lows during drought .
   
article_snippet: Reservoirs in California such as Folsom Lake (pictured) in California's north are now expected to run out of water in a year, according to NASA scientist Jay Famiglietti .
article_snippet: Since 2011 California has been losing 12million acre-feet of water per year and the total amount of water in snow, rivers, groundwater and reservoirs was 34million acre-feet below normal in 2014.
article_snippet: Governor Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency at the beginning of last year, though Californians only reduced Californians water usage by 9 per cent instead of a hoped-for 20 per cent.
article_snippet: Governor Jerry Brown also urged the acceleration of task forces and programs meant to ensure that California will have enough water in the future, which are currently slated to 'achieve sustainability' in 2042.
article_snippet: Snowpacks in California mountains like the Sierra Nevadas, which California relies to melt into water, have been near record lows this year.
highlights_snippet: Snowpacks in California mountains near record lows during drought .
  
highlights_snippet: Snowpacks in California mountains near record lows during drought .
   says public have not been involved in discussions about the problem .