New government maps present almost all the West is in drought and it is not even summer time yet: “This is unprecedented”

In an unprecedented move, Southern California officials declared a water shortage emergency and requested roughly 6 million residents to limit all outside watering to only as soon as every week.  

"We knew climate change would stress our water provides and we have been getting ready for it but we did not know it might happen this quick," said Gloria Gray, chairwoman of the Metropolitan Water District Board of Directors.  

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

"This is real. This is serious. This is unprecedented," stated Adel Hagekhalil, basic manager for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.  

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

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

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

Reager stated the West is in a 22-year megadrought, as climate change makes it hotter and drier. 

"We're just starting to see the dominoes fall. It is drier, we're starting to see much less water in our reservoirs, and now we have fires, and in California, there's just this sequence of consequences that we anticipate," stated Reager.