Water crisis ‘couldn’t be worse’ on Oregon-California border

Fox59 ^ | 5-16-21 | Fox59

[dynachrome]

Doom porn? Gov't picking winners?

[lurk]

So they’re going to build new dams?

Didn’t think so.

[fruser1]

They’re probably rigging the data just like they do with covid. Fix the numbers to make it look worse than it is to save the planet.

[knarf]

Our own Jeff Head fought for us 20 ish years ago, on this battlefield.

[knarf]

ping

[ßuddaßudd]

next year will be worsester ..

[bboise]

Oh but they’ve spent the last 20 years preparing,,,,,NOT

[Reno89519]

Okay, so water cut off entirely. Everyone loses. Maybe the government should begin undoing the damage it caused in the first place with the canals and all. Relocate the farmers? Or, is that too late and now it is everyone that loses.

I always wonder at the diversion of the Truckee River from Pyramid Lake, which has caused that Indian reservation lake to drop more than 83 feet. When will that theft be recognized, stopped, and reversed?

[gandalftb]

When you mess with Mother Nature......

I am familiar with the area. Years ago homesteading was allowed and the new farmers and the federal government drained and diked tens of thousands of acres of wetlands.

Those wetlands acted as a sponge in drought years, holding the surrounding mountain runoff and keeping minimum flows into the Klamath River.

The farmers got rich on the fertile soil.

Now a natural drought is making that farmland too dry for the crops they had been raising and they may have to switch to arid land crops that are less profitable.

[ClearCase_guy]

Gov't picking winners?

I'm not sure who is winning, but the government sees us as losers.

[Texas resident]

Just wait for fire season.

[RicocheT]

Tough for all in this watershed area. Pray to God that He sends some major rain storms over the area this summer and a lot of snow in the next winter. A lot depends on the currents in the Pacific Ocean along the NW coast on our US.

[wildcard_redneck]

Note to farmers, when it comes to getting water in an emergency you will be last inline because there are not enough of you to outvote the cities and towns. They will stave later or pay more for produce but that is another problem for another day..

[sockmonkey]

*** Our own Jeff Head fought for us 20 ish years ago, on this battlefield. ***

He (and his dog) marched w/us in Austin, too. Good Guy who was treated badly by some here as he didn’t pass the religious purity test.

I have no use for those kind of jerks then or now.

[Cold Heart]

or hatcheries

[steel_resolve]

Stop growing water-intensive crops like almonds

[dljordan]

“Relocate the farmers?”

They spent all the relocation money on illegals.

[hillarys cankles]

Stop growing water-intensive crops like almonds

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my buddies 600 acres is all drip. Thats gotta save a ton more water than how he use to water.

[Vigilanteman]

Jeff Head was one of the best and most capable warriors on our side. Hated by the purists because he was a Mormon. John Browning fit that description too back in the day.

[hillarys cankles]

also, during the wet years we had recently, it was great to watch all that water wash down the american river. Sure would be great to have Auburn Dam to hold a lot of that valuable water.