New authorities maps present almost all the West is in drought and it isn’t even summer time but: “That is unprecedented”

In an unprecedented move, Southern California officers declared a water shortage emergency and asked roughly 6 million residents to limit all out of doors watering to simply as soon as a week.  

"We knew local weather change would stress our water provides and we've been preparing for it however we did not know it would happen this fast," said Gloria Gray, chairwoman of the Metropolitan Water District Board of Directors.  

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

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

California is just not alone as reservoirs throughout the West are draining.  

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

"The issue with local weather change is that it takes all the historical patterns and kind of shifts them," NASA scientist Dr. JT Reager informed CBS News' 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's drier, we're beginning to see less water in our reservoirs, and we've fires, and in California, there's just this sequence of consequences that we anticipate," stated Reager.