The Bay Area just got walloped by a once-in-a-century storm that drenched the region with record rainfall, but even though it shattered October rain records, the storm is not enough to end California’s worst drought in decades, and the state still faces significant water challenges ahead. California remains under a statewide drought emergency, and it remains to be seen if this soaking was a harbinger of a wet winter, or an isolated event. Meanwhile, the Bay Area is projected to almost double in population over the next 50 years. If we don’t have enough water for almost eight million people now, then what will happen when there are 15 million people living here in the year 2070?

The San Francisco-based nonprofit think tank SPUR, formerly known as the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association, is out with a new report called Water for a Growing Bay Area. To discuss, KCBS Radio News Anchors Jeff Bell and Patti Reising, and KCBS Political Reporter Doug Sovern spoke to the co-author of that report, Laura Feinstein, Sustainability and Resilience Policy Director at SPUR.