i am ezra david romero for kqed newsroom. >>> our water collection and delivery systems in california are many decades old. climate change has changed our precipitation patterns so now get rain and bigger, less frequent storms, which means we will need to update our infrastructure to capture that heavier stormwater runoff. that is not the only change that is needed. earlier this month, the state released a six part report updating the many impacts of climate change and the difficult consequences that californians will experience. here to talk about the state just efforts to combat climate change is california's secretary for environmental protection, jared blumenfeld. secretary blumenfeld, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, and happy earth day. >> happy birthday. where are you right now? >> am in the eastern sierra on my way to mono lake, which is one of the cases affected by what you said in the prior story. it is a beautiful day after a storm. i drove to the snow last night to get here. no one thought it would be snowing in april. with that that preservation had ended. we are g