This is what Lake Tahoe and the Truckee River (between Tahoe City and Truckee) look like after five consecutive years of drought. Everyone feels the impacts of nature and our response to drought conditions; water supply shortages, price hikes and inconvenience, farm and ranching restrictions, recreational limitations, fish and riparian impacts, influences on tourism and reduction in groundwater recharge, to say the least.
Lake Tahoe and the upper reaches of the Truckee River are examples of the superposition of man's response over top an extreme natural condition. The drought is definitely real and our response to drought can be distilled down to this, “an opportunity to recognize the importance of community.”