While droughts are a natural feature of California’s climate, human-induced warming has made them even drier. After Eric Haas, 62, moved to Oakland in 2007, California was in a drought so severe a statewide emergency was declared. After experiencing drought conditions for several years, the California professor had a rainwater and greywater capture system installed at his highly efficient urban home to do his part to conserve water. I joined the Peace Corps after college in 1985, and was a math and science teacher in Buchanan, Liberia. There, I started to realize that large parts of the world don’t live