The Bridge is a new podcast featuring the best stories to come out of the KALW newsroom in San Francisco. Each week we'll bring you sound-rich, deeply reported stories about the Bay Area.

Episode 1 is all about the California drought: while people have argued about how to divvy up scarce resources forever, it turns out that the way the state parcels out its water supply is … crazy. KALW's Audrey Dilling investigates.