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Posted on 03/28/2015 9:10:54 PM PDT by Beave Meister
Last week when NASA announced that California is on its death bed and has only 12 months of water left, the news hit like a punch to the gut. “Data from NASA satellites show that the total amount of water stored in the Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins — that is, all of the snow, river and reservoir water, water in soils and groundwater combined — was 34 million acre-feet below normal in 2014. That loss is nearly 1.5 times the capacity of Lake Mead, America’s largest reservoir,” writes Jay Famiglietti of NASA.
Famiglietti adds: “Statewide, we’ve been dropping more than 12 million acre-feet of total water yearly since 2011. Roughly two-thirds of these losses are attributable to groundwater pumping for agricultural irrigation in the Central Valley. Farmers have little choice but to pump more groundwater during droughts, especially when their surface water allocations have been slashed 80% to 100%. But these pumping rates are excessive and unsustainable. Wells are running dry. In some areas of the Central Valley, the land is sinking by one foot or more per year.”
Tensions are high in the state, and small conflicts are breaking out as people are beginning to steal water from others. Caroline Stanley of Refinery 29 writes: “As Tom McKay points out, the water crisis will likely have the biggest impact on the state’s agricultural community — which currently accounts for a whopping 80% of its water usage. (According to Carolee Krieger, president and executive director of the California Water Impact Network, the almond crop alone uses enough water to supply 75 percent of the state’s population.) But, recently, your average citizens are feeling it, too. People in the Bay Area are actually stealing water from their neighbors.”
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Ton of liberals messing up the politics of neighboring states. The locusts descend.
The Governors in Governor Brown Nose neighborhood should say control your border or no more Water for you
I really don’t want most those clowns moving into our states. I sure hope they get some rain for our sake too.
Jerry wants a magic train but won’t build desalination plants.
They could sell the salt to the states that get snow.
Liberals are such obtuse morons.
When the stuff hits the fan and the liberal morons in California run out of water... lol
THEN they might GET IT!
Demoncrats did this to you! (illegals drank you and your childrens water)
Locusts are evil looking.
Apt analogy to the evil marxist queers and criminals that plague government on all levels.
They just figure obungler will give them water that belongs to other states. Better figure that’s what they’ll try and/or bordering states will be invaded by the leeches CA has created.
Nah, for that I nominate the basin of the former Aral Sea.
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This crisis has been decades in the making. When did Mono Lake start dropping? But, good thing California has a big fat budget surplus to deal with things like this - and no senseless boondoggles, such as high-speed rail.
Really leery of the latest doom and gloom claims....IIRC, the satellite data being used to make these predictions has only been collected for around 2 decades....statistically, there is nothing to compare it to, therefore any predictions coming from said data is really irrelevant.
When is anyone in CA going to address this??
According to whom? I live here in Caliph-ornia and nobody seems to give a damn.
About anything, really. Let alone about our lack of water.
Governor Moonbeam recently handed out about a billion dollars to those who've been "affected" by the drought. I guess Mrs. Eagle and I are not among them because we haven't seen one red cent.
Or a cent of any color for that matter.
We're still dumping water out of the reservoirs to save an "endangered" minnow nobody has ever seen and watering Preezy Obola's golf courses in Palm Springs as if water grows on trees.
I say this as a Caliphornian, we deserve what we are about to experience.
They better raise taxes, forthwith!
as far as California goes, agriculture is the most important use...without agriculture, California will loose billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of jobs....
as long as the Southern Californians insist on having individual pools in each of their backyards, its a moot point to talk about using water wisely...
The 20 million+ illegals here use up about 1 trillion gallons of water every year.
We are taking our limited water supplies away from OUR children and giving them to the children of illegal invaders.
This could result in a massive loss of population in California—it could literally change the politics of the USA, especially after the 2020 Census.
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