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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Easy fix stop working your lawn if you live in the desert… YOU CHOOSE TO LIVE IN THE DESERT!!!!
They could always ask Nestle for some
Smh that’s kinda like building below sea level and expecting it not to flood.
Thanks to them smelt lovers…California dumped 4 to 5 million gallons of drinking water in the ocean for years
So sad
Do you know the farmers have to drill down 1200 feet to hit good water what a disaster everybody pray for rain and I mean hurricane blowing rain
I hate to say it, but Californians and their liberal politics and lifestyles are to blame. If the would have been conservative and voted that way their water supply would have been sufficiently managed. Californians now decide to turn to God to ask for rain? Kind of ironic how they’ve turned their back on Him until they needed Him. Amazing how that works isn’t it? Ironic.
The problem with my state Is the liberals, they have destroyed everything an soon will look like the city of Detroit.
The problem in California is a storage problem. Environmental wackos want millions of illegal aliens to come to the state without increasing water capacity. It’s a simple math problem.
Happy to note that 15 salt water conversion plants are in the works. CA has that natural resource right along its coastline. Where CA has failed, however, is rerouting rain water into underground or above ground pools instead of letting it just flow into the ocean. There should be no water entering the ocean at all. Even the Los Angeles river should be routed somewhere instead of the ocean. Somewhat poor planning on many people’s plate, but a beginning is better than an ending!