and unless the weather shifts dramatically, it will only get worse, nbc, mike taibbe has more. >> reporter: here, the drum beat of bad news, the quickly shrinking reservoirs, spelling disaster for more on this growing season. >> the industries as a whole will be affected, at least three years because of this situation that we're in right now today. >> reporter: he has been relying on county water for irrigation and has not been shut off yet. and has even cut off older, more thirsty less productive trees to save additional water. but all the elements of the drought are at historic extremes. january rain days, usually california's wettest month, zero, january wildfires, last january there were none, this year? 406. snowpack amount, a mere 12% of normal. >> nobody can remember anything like this being nothing like this has happened in over 100 years. >> reporter: and it is not just farmland that is at risk. unless there is a dramatic and unanticipated weather turn around, several counties say they will run out of drinking water in two months, in marin county north of san francisco? >> we have