Posted on 04/19/2015 8:10:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As if anyone actually needed another reason to move out of the crazy state of California, now it is being reported that conditions in some areas of the state “are like a third-world country” due to the multi-year megadrought that has hit the state. In one California county alone, more than 1,000 wells have gone dry as the groundwater has disappeared. The state is turning back into a desert, and an increasing number of homes no longer have any water coming out of their taps or showerheads. So if you weren’t scared away by the wildfires, mudslides, high taxes, crime, gang violence, traffic, insane political correctness, the nightmarish business environment or the constant threat of “the big one” reducing your home to a pile of rubble, perhaps the fact that much of the state could soon be facing Dust Bowl conditions may finally convince you to pack up and leave. And if you do decide to go, you won’t be alone. Millions of Californians have fled the state in recent years, and this water crisis could soon spark the greatest migration out of the state that we have ever seen.
Back in 1972, Albert Hammond released a song entitled “It Never Rains In Southern California“, and back then that was considered to be a good thing.
But today, years of very little rain are really starting to take a toll. In fact, one government official says that conditions in Tulare Country “are like a third-world country”…
Near California’s Success Lake, more than 1,000 water wells have failed. Farmers are spending $750,000 to drill 1,800 feet down to keep fields from going fallow. Makeshift showers have sprouted near the church parking lot.
“The conditions are like a third-world country,” said Andrew Lockman, a manager at the Office of Emergency Services in Tulare County, in the heart of the state’s agricultural Central Valley about 175 miles (282 kilometers) north of Los Angeles.
As California enters the fourth year of a record drought, its residents and $43 billion agriculture industry have drawn groundwater so low that it’s beyond the reach of existing wells. That’s left thousands with dry taps and pushed farmers to dig deeper as Governor Jerry Brown, a 77-year-old Democrat, orders the first mandatory water rationing in state history.
The mandatory water restrictions that Governor Brown is imposing are going to be very painful for a lot of people. We have just learned that some California communities will be required to cut their water usage by up to 36 percent…
Californians are going to have to start preparing for a dry summer as the dehydrated state prepares for a water crackdown.
In a somewhat controversial move, California water officials drafted a set of mandatory conservation regulations outlining varying degrees to which communities will be required to cut back on water use, ranging from 8 to 36 percent, depending on their history of water consumption.
The regulations — slated for approval in early May — are part of California’s first-ever attempt at mandatory rationing. Earlier this month, Gov. Jerry Brown issued an executive order requiring a 25 percent reduction in urban water use, a historic step in a series of measures aimed at conservation ahead of the state’s fourth consecutive year of drought.
And of course it isn’t just the state of California that is dealing with drought.
All over the southwest United States, we are seeing conditions that we have not witnessed since the days of the Dust Bowl in the 1930s.
In fact, the water level in Lake Mead is now the lowest that it has been since those days, and it is expected to drop even lower in the months ahead…
One of the most stunning places to see its impact is at the nation’s largest reservoir, Lake Mead, near Las Vegas. At about 40 percent of capacity, it’s the lowest it’s been since it was built in the 1930s.
“Just to see the rings around it, it’s just … kind of scary, you know,” says Darlene Paige, a visitor from New York. She’s standing at a vista point above the Hoover Dam on the Arizona side of Lake Mead.
That “ring” is the infamous bathtub ring around the rim of the reservoir. The levels have dropped 140 feet over the past 15 years, exposing a white stain on the gravelly brown mountains above the water. The level is forecast to fall an additional 10 feet by this summer.
According to the Government Accountability Office, it is being projected that a total of 40 U.S. states will be dealing with a shortage of water by the end of the next decade.
It has been said that “water is the new oil”, and this is just the beginning. The truth is that as bad as things are here, we are actually in far better shape than almost everyone else in the world to deal with the emerging global water crisis. All over the planet supplies of fresh water are disappearing, and the availability of water is going to increasingly become a major geopolitical issue in the years to come.
And even now, the U.S. government is taking all of this very seriously. In fact, the EPA is already trying to train our kids to take showers instead of baths…
Parents across America who struggle to keep their young rambunctious kids clean now have a new obstacle: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
As part of its effort to help save the planet from the dangers of taking too many baths, the EPA’s WaterSense program is trying to convince kids they should avoid bathtubs in favor of showers, which it says is a far more efficient use of water.
“To save even more water, keep your shower under five minutes long—try timing yourself with a clock next time you hop in!” the “WaterSense for Kids” website says.
For most of our lives, most of us have been able to take water for granted.
But now things are changing, and we are going to have to adjust to these new realities.
Jerry Moonbeam is trying to depopulate the state for his ecotopia buddies.
It only like a third world country.....six streets over and to the left.. or 4 streets over and to the right. or....
It won’t be long before California no longer elects a governor and starts electing an el presidente. The state motto will be, Ole’!
Funny, I was just talking to my BIL and he was saying he has a friend that works at the Yorba Linda Water District who told him that Orange County has no water shortage whatsoever, Los Angeles and NorCal may be hurting but O.C. is selling excess water to the Imperial Valley farmers for mucho dinero. Apparently they also have huge tanks of LOx there and just real light security at the gate and a chain link fence.
No. We have a government more interested in importing poverty and illegals, saddling us with more benefits to those who should not be here at the expense of those that are here legally, working, paying taxes and upholding the laws. Atlas has shrugged. The countdown to the ruination of the great state of California is on. A government more intent on wasting money than preserving it for needed structural improvements. The Choo Choo train to nowhere is only one example. Thanks Moonbeam and all the collective RAT idiots in the state. Fools, abject fools who cannot see their own demise.
There are places all over this country that are “like third world countries”. Ghettos everywhere in every major city and some of the small towns in the south are completely ghetto.
My wife and I were talking tonight and can’t understand why people with the means to leave continue to live in those little southern towns that have died a slow death. I know two men who retired from the military and moved back to our hometown, a place that I won’t even visit. It’s depressing.
Another place that looks like a third world country in America is the white house. We have a king.
I tend to agree. Depopulate it so it is a playground for the elites and then bring in strict immigration controls.
As we say in Arizona:
Whiskey is for drinking
And water is for fighting.
And you are permitted to wash only one armpit per day, so you will have to alternate them on subsequent days from now on.
(And when everyone's in compliance with this governmental declaration from Governor Moonbeam, all Californi-ewwwws, Odor-votors, Scent-dispensers, and Aroma-makers will stink equally.)
Don’t the LIB-idiots throw lots of water down rivers to “save” some worthless guppy? Fools.
I keep telling my wife lets move the heck out of here.. now.
they have bingo in other states too..
but nOOOOooOOO...
...ping....
Good theory. Follow the money. Who benefits from depopulating the region, buying newly cheap property, then turning the water back on? Same has been asked about Ferguson of late.
I have a friend that had problems refinancing her house because she needed to prove she had flood insurance.
Welcome to contemporary America! So is the rest of the country. Quite a few other states in the West have also been dry for years. To move away from drought, though, folks in CA might try moving back to the northeast.
We were in drought last year. I decided to let my lawn die to save water.
My water usage went from 180 gallons per day to 105 now.
I have saved all I can already.
And they want me to reduce from present levels.
I am being penalized for saving water last year.
Not happy.
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