San Francisco Chronicle (March 8, 2014) — Central Valley farmers tend to see more and bigger dams as a solution to the current water shortage, but many experts believe California can no longer plumb its way out. "You can build all the storage you want right now, but there's no water to fill it," said Jay Lund, director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis. "It's not like a pile of concrete in a river is going to create water."