than a thousand artesian wells that flowed like this one. Photo courtesy of the Security Pacific National Bank Collection – Los Angeles Public Library.
Posted on 01/12/2017 6:48:24 PM PST by Mariner
After five years, is the drought over? The feds seem to think so, at least as far as Sacramento and most of Northern California are concerned.
Thanks to an unusually wet winter, the closely watched U.S. Drought Monitor reported Thursday that 42 percent of California now is considered free of drought. That includes Northern California from the Bay Area to the Oregon border. When the “water year” began in October, only 17 percent of the state was drought free, and a year ago the figure was 3 percent.
Several other experts agreed that considerable progress has been made in alleviating the drought.
Gov. Jerry Brown, however, sees the rain gauge half empty.
Despite the heavy rainstorms of the past week, Brown’s administration stressed Thursday that because the state’s water needs are inextricably linked, the drought can’t be considered over as long as the southern half of the state remains seriously depleted.
“Drought conditions persist in a majority of the state, and the governor’s emergency drought declaration is a statewide declaration,” said spokeswoman Nancy Vogel of the Natural Resources Agency. Vogel added that the Drought Monitor “doesn’t give the full picture in California” and overlooks chronic problems such as the rampant pumping of groundwater in recent years. “They take a short-term view of how drought is defined.”
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
If folks want to discuss this in rational terms, I’ve advocated California installing nuclear power generating desalinization plant for years.
I think it is terrible how much stress we put on the water supply from Northern California. As for the Colorado River water, we take from it by agreement, but I have no reason not to want to see that taking reduced as well.
When folks start talking bout stealing, they open a can of worms that won’t lead to a rational discussion. It is not stealing to take what is covered under an agreement, not matter what you think someone should do.
Our leaders in Sacramento do not care one bit about the people. They don’t advocate new power. For the most part they don’t support expanded freeways until they are decades overdue. They don’t support desalinization.
California is an amazing place, but it has been mismanaged into a backwards hell hole.
That’s the truth of it.
we oughta start canning those goddam Delta Smelt and peddling them for cat food.
They might be really tasty for us. When I was in Italy, my then FIL ordered some stuff for us and one was a plate full of tiny roasted fish to eat whole. I can’t tell you how good. Yum. I’d love to eat a plate of Delta smelt... on a rainy day...
UH, they said over for 42% of the state. Cancel the party.
No...we need two or three more aqueducts from NorCal to SoCal so when you have more than you need, we can take the rest.
The Kalifornia Creepozoids allow at least 50% of the yearly snowmelt to flow away from the humans. So even in drought years we could thrive with a little bit of planning. There is a man made drought in the Central Valley. Turns out the creepozoids are making a killing after destroying the farms by starving them of water, then buying the land for pennies on the dollar. They then sell parcels to developers. Creepozoids all.
Exactly, and the Chinese are buying up the Entertainment Industry and everything else they can there. I am reading that the Calexit blueprint/plan would put them under the UN.
Not long ago, the Chinese were trying to get a former military area/port. There was a big enough outcry that it didn’t happen, but who would even consider that????
If the Globalists can’t get us one way they will keep on trying another. It is absolutely essential that they break up the USA to achieve their NWO and try to take our guns and freedoms.
Ummm No.
Not that simple.
It would take many years for what you call "saturation" minus evaporation) to measurably raise the water table.
In fact, recharge wells exist to allow more than the first few feet below the surface to become saturated. 500 to 1000 feet is more efficacious.
Interesting reading : The Great CA Central Valley Flood of 1860...
Get Mexico to build some from within Mexico.....and have them pay for it.....
A drought ends as soon as the United States starts to turn towards support of Israel.......it’s almost as if the Bible is true, when a nation blesses Israel.
Amen.
Thanks TheDon.
Most of So Cal water runoff is not used. And most of the remaining drought area in CA is desert. So Cal needs desalination plants.
It would be nice to eliminate the Owens River Aqueduct.
Spot on!
Nah, they'll still need those to control the floods.
But the abundance of water is due entirely to global warming, as was the drought!
Most of the Southern portion of the state, south of Los Angeles, has also began to recover. By the time we finish the next few storms .. we should be in even better shape.
It’s the middle of the state that’s in such bad trouble.
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