I wonder how much of a mess we've created by simply calling it "drought" in the first place. From the article is seems equally likely that the last several hundred years was just a period of abnormally large rainfall in the western US and the true average is much less than we have planned for.

On an unrelated note, imagine if we could conttol the weather to some general degree: Too much rain for some people, too little for others and then of course, neithet might follow historical petterns meaning native flora would be altered by the needs being met for agricultural species...

We can and do. California already has many active cloud seeding projects.

I read an article in National Geographic like ten years or so ago that brought up this very idea. IIRC its title was "drying of the west" but I can't find it online right now.