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'It's Gone' – Snowpack Crucial for West's Water Melts Early | 08 May 2015 | The snowpack that is crucial for the western U.S. supplies of water for farming, drinking and recreation has melted early, spelling further drought problems for California. “Across most of the West, snowpack isn't just low – it's gone,” Hydrologist David Garen of the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) said. “With some exceptions, this year's snowmelt streamflow has already occurred.” After months of unusually warm temperatures, the snowpack at many off the USDA's stations in much of the western U.S. is at or near the lowest on record, Garen said in a statement from the USDA.