It's not just the Merced river. It's all of them on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains. This has Nothing to do with letting the water flow to the sea, a necessary thing to keep rivers alive.
This is all about too many acres under tillage. And a very large portion of it is exported outside the US...more than half.
Almonds alone take up 1.6million acres and 85% of the almonds produced go outside the US. ENORMOUS corporate farms, not mom and pop's 160 acres.
They are destroying the ecology of the state to ship food overseas.
Conservatives conserve.
Yet CA is actually deconstructing their damns, sorry no sympathy.
And ya CA has no problem with the corp farms run by big business, on the small local farmers apparently are a threat to the environment.
In most parts of the country and most parts of the world... agriculture uses 70% of the fresh water. In California agriculture uses only 40% of the fresh water. When did you join the leftist cabal and start hating farmers and farming. You do realize that without them we would all probably starve?
for months ,so they filled up again
If they took the money they spend on the climate fraud and used it for Desalination CA would have no water shortage problems but no.
https://modernfarmer.com/2022/06/government-to-buy-water-rights-california/
Oh how much water do illegal aliens consume and is there a call to reduce that consumption? Or do we just cut off the food the 1.9 million consume?
California continues to have the highest number — 1.9 million — of unauthorized residents among the states.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-11-16/unauthorized-immigrant-population-pew-research-center-report
The almonds grown in the Bakersfield area rely on wells owned by a prominent family who have been around 4 generations
When that drought happened they were one of a few farms who owned water rights enabling then to continue operations
Another paid for hit piece from Yahoo news.. THE low price leader in paid for propaganda fake news!
The illegal aliens probably don’t give a hoot about California as long as they get their water for drinking and bathing. The DC politicians who let them in don’t care about California either as long as they get re-elected. Most Californians don’t care about California either as long as they can have sex with whomever they want without any consequences. Therein lies the problem.
How is this different than what South Dakota and all of the damns in that state, do to the Missouri River?
Almonds and alfalfa, for Saudi horses. We need export tariffs.
Is it really "worsening droughts" or is it the ever-increasing population of illegals who are drawing on the water supply?
-PJ
It’s much more about poor water management. We’re not building new water storage or more accurately we’re not adding net capacity as new ones replace old ones and the old ones are sold to land developers. Growing higher value crops that need a lot of water is also an issue. California has nearly 1000 miles of coastline but only a handful of desalination plants. Israel gets close to 50% of its drinking water from desalination. Here in CA they want us to drink recycled sewage.
California won’t allow any desalinization plants to be built.
I hope your not talking Trash about farmers with your mouth full.
when stuff like this appears in the NYT , the NYT is trying to drum up support for a Fed takeover of state obligations
Most times you will find Fed.gov at the root of having corrupted the state management process so as to create a narrative to assume control.
If enquiring minds look, that is precisely what they will find going on in California -Federally “stimulated’ interference with state agency functions leading to the mes that they then intend to step in -in order to “fix”
So just starve peasants.
Over the past 30 years, more than 100 small dams have been removed in California.
THE MONITOR WAS BROKEN.
THIS is a NON- STORY.
WITH THE AMOUNT OF SNOW THAT FELL LAST WINTER-—THIS DIDN’T HAPPEN