California is currently suffering through its worst drought in at least a century, with 82 percent of the state facing "extreme" or "exceptional" drought. The before-and-after photos below offer a visual look at just how staggering the change has been.
Justin Sullivan, a photographer at Getty Images, recently took a number of aerial shots of California's Lake Oroville, the state's second-largest reservoir and a popular fishing and recreational site. He then compared them with similar images from 2011 taken by Paul Hames of the California Department of Water Resources.
Three years ago, in 2011, the lake was relatively flush with water. Today, the lake is at just 32 percent capacity (when full, it can hold 3.5 million acre feet of water). Run the slider over each picture to see the dramatic change:
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