New government maps show nearly all of the West is in drought and it is not even summer but: “This is unprecedented”

In an unprecedented transfer, Southern California officers declared a water scarcity emergency and requested roughly 6 million residents to limit all out of doors watering to only as soon as a week.  

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

The newest government maps present practically all of the West is in drought, and 95% of California is suffering extreme or extreme drought.

"This is actual. This is serious. That is unprecedented," mentioned Adel Hagekhalil, general supervisor for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.  

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

Lake Mead, the largest reservoir within the nation formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, needs a new pump to make sure water can stream to Las Vegas. 

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

Reager said the West is in a 22-year megadrought, as local weather change makes it hotter and drier. 

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