Greg Pierce, director of UCLA’s Human Right to Water Solutions Lab, commented in a Guardian article on California’s drought, which is predicted to worsen in the coming months despite recent heavy rains. Southern California’s driest start to its rainy season in recorded history is accompanied by a lower-than-average snow pack in the Sierra mountain range, while the Southwest is experiencing a La Niña weather pattern characterized by a dry winter season. Mountain snows, which are crucial to the flow of the Colorado River during spring and summer, also did not materialize. The Colorado River supplies millions of people with water across the Southwest. “We are near a tipping point on the Colorado,” said Pierce, an adjunct associate professor of urban planning and co-executive director of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, noting that climate change is going to reduce the river’s predictable flow.