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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Conserving resources is no joke
Also letting tons of gallons of water out of Shasta Dam hasnt dont any good either… I live in the county the dam is in…
Despise living in Commiefornia… Do not insult those of us trapped here!
Funny when Arnold Schwarzenegger was governor this wasn’t a problem. Hmmm
I’m glad Obama just requested over 10 million to research gun violence instead of 10 million to research a possible solution to this problem.
The rain is coming.
Whats he gonna do??? Build desalination plants or move! Ohhh… how I love the Great Lakes….
Desalination only removes salt from water. They still have: radiation, raw sewage, millions of tons of plastic and drugs to worry about. I wouldn’t use desalinated sea water for anything. Gross!
I’ve been reading in this thread that the water shortage is caused by the “illegals.” I’m sorry, these idiots are just too effing stupid.
California climate change nuts they wouldn’t build reservoirs so now they run out of water. They built their homes and businesses right on top of an earthquake fault.