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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Your right next to the Pacific Ocean and you can’t figure out to de-salinate it why?
Send all the illegals back to the country and it would save you guys water
Every illegal brings one gallon over…problem solved.
everyone saying there right next to the ocean is a moron u can have fresh water imported from anywhere in the world for half the cost it would take to desalinate the sea water…. maybe when ppl think theyre geniuses an have solved all the worlds problems they should do a little research on their ideas b4 making everyone else seem like a dumb$#%&!@* for not doing it
Sucks for them
Republican response: All those damn illegals are sucking all the water dry. Democrat response: Global warming. Rational person response: Freak happenstance due to unusually dry seasons.
Because there’s too many $#%&!@*in people..
It sounds like, from the comments, that Nestle will soon be selling a lot of water to California.
California doesn’t have a water problem California has a bureaucracy problem. There’s fresh water that were not allowed to drink because it would endanger some fish call the delta smelt or something like that. It’s so close to extinction that scientists say there’s nothing we can do to bring it back but yet when I love to drink the water that is swimming in and they haven’t build anything to conserve or 10 to conserve water since the 19 1970s I’m hearing that you’re having huge corporations trying to privatize water supplies. Even on top of that farmers have just started growing Ukrops of nuts and almonds which are items that take a lot of water and the growing alfalfa for the Middle East for their racing horses that takes a lot of water it’s just that I’ve heard but if it’s true I don’t think we have a water problem I think we have a bureaucracy problem
Seriously?