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SACRAMENTO -- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is using this year's scant Sierra Nevada snowpack to urge state lawmakers to approve his proposal for two new dams.

State water managers say the snowpack at 71 percent below average for this time of year.

The snow pack is 27 percent of normal in the northern Sierra, 33 percent of average in the central Sierra, and 24 percent to the south.

The Department of Water Resources says the overall average is 29 percent of a typical year's snowpack.

That's the lowest since the drought year of 1988.

The Schwarzenegger administration says the state needs to conserve water, protect fresh water flowing through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and build more reservoirs.

But the administration also says this year's low snowpack will have little effect unless it stretches into a multiyear drought.

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