New government maps show practically the entire West is in drought and it is not even summer yet: “This is unprecedented”

In an unprecedented move, Southern California officers declared a water shortage emergency and requested roughly 6 million residents to limit all outside watering to simply once a week.  

"We knew climate change would stress our water supplies and we've been getting ready for it but we didn't know it could happen this quick," stated Gloria Gray, chairwoman of the Metropolitan Water District Board of Directors.  

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

"That is real. This is severe. That is unprecedented," said Adel Hagekhalil, basic supervisor for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.  

California just isn't alone as reservoirs across the West are draining.  

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

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

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

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