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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Wow.
Surely California can use the ocean water like many desert nations do. They use the oceans water after it has been removed of all salinity and pump it all over their lands. Just a thought.
Start turning salt water fresh
Their close to pipelining via the Pacific coast freshwater from Southeast Alaska.
http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_25859513/nations-largest-ocean-desalination-plant-goes-up-near
We can pipeline gas and oil but not flood water or snow melt?
But they saved the three inch fish that precluded them from setting up a water conservation program ten years ago….idiots.
May it rain for 40 days and 40 nights in California, and wash the political rats out to sea!
Stop taking it from the mountain s stupids
Desalination is the answer