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Posted on 05/17/2021 1:48:36 PM PDT by dynachrome
The water crisis along the California-Oregon border went from dire to catastrophic this week as federal regulators shut off irrigation water to farmers from a critical reservoir and said they would not send extra water to dying salmon downstream or to a half-dozen wildlife refuges that harbor millions of migrating birds each year.
In what is shaping up to be the worst water crisis in generations, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said it will not release water this season into the main canal that feeds the bulk of the massive Klamath Reclamation Project, marking a first for the 114-year-old irrigation system. The agency announced last month that hundreds of irrigators would get dramatically less water than usual, but a worsening drought picture means water will be completely shut off instead.
The entire region is in extreme or exceptional drought, according to federal monitoring reports, and Oregon’s Klamath County is experiencing its driest year in 127 years.
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I’m in the wet and humid Deep South now, but I often miss the gorgeous but austere landscapes of Nevada. It’s a wonderful place.
All the best!
We (Californians) threw more than $10 billion to build a train that was to go from nowhere important to nowhere important. Train never got built. Money is gone.
We should’ve invested in desalination plants and water pipelines.
Desalination
Klamath II.
Are the global warming people crying about a chunk of Antarctic Ice that broke off? Why don’t we drag it up to the California coast?
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Nah...what they’d RATHER have is for all the humans to DIE.
Only if they are a....certain color.
I will add, anecdotally, that Florida seems pretty dry so far.
And coffee shortages would be a problem for me. Note to self: Recheck the preps tomorrow.
In Brazil, while many southern regions are in drought, much of the north has had excessive rains. I would not be surprised if, as a country taken overall, rainfall in Brazil would average out to be near normal. Of course, that is not the problem...
If the “canals” on Mars really had turned out to be such, well, that is about the scale of engineering project needed here on Earth.
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“Oregon’s Klamath County is experiencing its driest year in 127 years.”
Meaning in at least 127 years ago the area had seen a similar drought. Such a time from is tiny in any global historical sense. The clear indication is that the area is in a drought cycle the area NATURALLY does experience, in cycles of 127 years or more.
A summer camp upstream from us dammed off a spring so they could have a natural pool. Aren’t they special. No water for anyone downstream.
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