Jay Familglietti, NASA’s top water scientist, recently warned that California has only a year’s supply of water left in storage facilities and the backup groundwater is rapidly depleting. Despite this harrowing fact, California has no backup plan to address this crisis.
“California has no contingency plan for a persistent drought like this one (let alone a 20-plus-year mega-drought), except, apparently, staying in emergency mode and praying for rain,” stated Familglietti. “In short, we have no paddle to navigate this crisis.”
UPDATE: California Gov. Jerry Brown issues ineffectual, mandatory water restriction as one-third of our nation’s crops are threatened. See Page 3 for updates.
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Live in California. Droughts are and will continue to exist. The liberals that run the state and the wacko environmentalists are the true cause for the shortage. Infrastructure has not changed since Jerry Brown (Moonbeam) father was governor. Bad policies with many million more people equals what we see today. Good part of state did not even have water meters installed residentially and commercially until recently with many still without. The big 4 water bottling companies have their taps wide open paying pennies for hundreds of gallons to boot. Los Angeles and other big cities just now being forced to conserve. My water district has been doing that now for over a year. What about pipelines from neighboring wet states? Wii leave you all with this final note. Along the I-5 corridor signage stating: food grows where water flows as Cali supplies the nation with most fruits and vegetables. Open your wallets folks as many, many farms have gone dry…
If global warming exists and ocean temps have risen, where is El Niño?
To bad you guys can’t hydrate yourself with weed….rofl
Tell the EPA Thank You by diverting all the water back in the Bay’s for a little fish. One fish or 38 million people ? They pick the fish. Droughts been going on sense the start of time. Man can’t control the weather. This world is over populated. Mother nature will take care of herself. From global freeze to global warming and now they call it climate change is a joke. Mother Earth released more gases in one day then man could ever dream of.
1 wildfires burned themselves out. smoke in atmosphere. Now man put them out
2 concrete jungles residual heat Of the big city’s
3 man is just stupid building in flood plains and where tornadoes form. Moore Oklahoma, Katy Texas south of I 10 equestrian center was it 3 times by tornadoes in late 80’s rice fields and flood plains now a bunch of subdivisions. So when it floods and get$#%&!@* by tornadoes they call it climate change!!!!!! Really stupidity what I call it
Probably full after all this rain
water isnt used up, it’s used and returned to the earth, the water is still there people.., drink it, you pee it out, wash and bath with it, it goes down the sewer, but it’s still there
And the DAMN FOOLS in sac CONTINUE TO WRING THEIR HANDS ABOUT ‘CLIMATE CHANGE” INSTEAD OF MAKING ARRANGEMENTS TO MAKE AND STORE MORE WATER
Could always try NOT settling in the desert… Or not giving your water to desert cities. Amazing how short sighted people can be…
Yes, I know
That only works when the water is used in it’s local environment, not when our elected officials allow it to be bottled and used else where. Wait till the greedy millionaires start bottling oxygen and charging us for the air we need.