New government maps present practically the entire West is in drought and it isn’t even summer but: “That is unprecedented”

In an unprecedented transfer, Southern California officials declared a water scarcity emergency and asked roughly 6 million residents to restrict all outdoor watering to just as soon as every week.  

"We knew local weather change would stress our water supplies and we have been preparing for it but we did not know it will occur this fast," said Gloria Gray, chairwoman of the Metropolitan Water District Board of Administrators.  

The most recent government maps present practically all of the West is in drought, and 95% of California is struggling extreme or excessive drought.

"That is actual. That is severe. That is unprecedented," said Adel Hagekhalil, general manager 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 in the nation shaped by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, wants a brand new pump to make sure water can movement to Las Vegas. 

"The issue with climate change is that it takes all the historic patterns and kind of shifts them," NASA scientist Dr. JT Reager instructed CBS News' Ben Tracy. 

Reager mentioned 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 starting to see much less water in our reservoirs, and we now have fires, and in California, there's simply this sequence of penalties that we anticipate," said Reager.