Nation Photos: California’s brutal drought shows no signs of yielding +1 EMAIL BY News Desk April 5, 2015 at 5:57 PM EDT A fountain outside City Hall is shut down due to the drought, Los Angeles, California, January 6, 2015. Photo by Lucy Nicholson/Reuters A fountain outside City Hall is shut down due to the drought, Los Angeles, California, January 6, 2015. Photo by Lucy Nicholson/Reuters Following years of severe drought and the lowest winter snowpack ever recorded in the state, California Gov. Jerry Brown announced a plan Wednesday to impose a 25 percent reduction on most of the state’s local water supply agencies.