New government maps present nearly all of the West is in drought and it isn’t even summer season yet: “This is unprecedented”

In an unprecedented transfer, Southern California officers declared a water scarcity emergency and asked roughly 6 million residents to limit all outside watering to only once per week.  

"We knew local weather change would stress our water supplies and we have been getting ready for it however we did not know it might happen this fast," stated Gloria Grey, chairwoman of the Metropolitan Water District Board of Administrators.  

The most recent authorities maps show almost the entire West is in drought, and 95% of California is struggling severe or excessive drought.

"That is actual. This is critical. This is unprecedented," said Adel Hagekhalil, normal supervisor for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.  

California will not be alone as reservoirs across the West are draining.  

Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the nation shaped by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, wants a new pump to ensure water can stream to Las Vegas. 

"The issue with local weather change is that it takes all of the historical patterns and form of shifts them," NASA scientist Dr. JT Reager told CBS Information' Ben Tracy. 

Reager stated the West is in a 22-year megadrought, as climate change makes it hotter and drier. 

"We're just beginning to see the dominoes fall. It's drier, we're beginning to see much less water in our reservoirs, and we've got fires, and in California, there's just this sequence of consequences that we anticipate," said Reager.