As long, rainy, snowy, and cold as the last winter was, you'd think there'd be no problem with the National Park withdrawing water from its usual source - Annie Creek. You'd be wrong. Surprisingly, the creek is a tributary that eventually ends up feeding North Klamath Lake, and the tribes that manage the lake and Wood River have seniority when it comes to water rights. Likely, the extremely cold winter and spring, though producing abundant snowpacks, delayed the melt. So, there's less water at present. Since Wood River's water comes from snowmelt and subsurface springs, the springs alone aren't providing sufficient water.
Thus, Crater Lake is spending nearly half a million dollars to have water trucked in from northern California. Of course, there's a whole lot of water in the caldera, but the NPS won't tap that because their stated purpose for the national park is to protect the lake. So 12,000 gallons a day are trucked in from California - which, as you doubtless know, is, like Oregon Democratics, busily "fighting global warming" and "reducing greenhouse gases".
Right.
