https://www.siliconvalley.com/2025/01/05/latest-line-a-good-week-for-water-managers-a-bad-week-for-shoplifters/

The statewide Sierra Nevada snowpack is at 108% of normal. Reservoirs are at above-average capacity. Barring a total shut-down of precipitation until April, the summer water situation is looking pretty good.

Under Proposition 36, which took effect Jan. 1, retail thieves now face three years in jail after a third conviction, and prosecutors in some counties are already charging under the new law.