Archinect's "Dry Futures" competition featured by MSNBC; juror and NASA hydrologist Jay Famiglietti interviewed

2015-07-31T14:16:00-04:00

Despite recent successes in water conservancy and summer rainfall in the state, the California drought is still “probably worse than most people recognize,” according to Jay Famiglietti, senior water scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and juror on Archinect’s Dry Futures competition. Famiglietti spoke with José Díaz-Balart on MSNBC’s “The Rundown” earlier this morning, about the current state of California’s water crisis and Dry Future’s call to action for architects to respond.

While the drought has been receiving widespread media attention, both within the state and nationwide, it can still be difficult to convince people of the severity of the situation. “No snow in the mountains, reservoir levels are exceptionally low, groundwater levels are declining," Famiglietti told Díaz-Balart. "We’re in pretty rough shape.”

Famiglietti’s research on groundwater depletion began twenty years ago, working with NASA’s GRACE project (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) to track an...

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Archinect's "Dry Futures" competition featured by MSNBC; juror and NASA hydrologist Jay Famiglietti interviewed