Having just spent 2 weeks in the Central Valley I can attest that this is true. And there is a fine haze that hangs over everything. Guess what? It’s dust.
leave!
Let California and it’s socialist politics die without a population!
Yes, but the Snail Darter is happy./s
They could desalinate but that takes energy and they oppose that.
This is why I ordered extra lettuce and other vegetable seeds.
CA is built out of stealing water from the mountains.
Cali could have water trucked in from its sister State: New York.
I am sorry to hear of this drought, but this story caught me on a day when I want government to cut 2 trillion from the budget, so, you know.
Many live there in CA because they hate rain or snow.
Guess where drinking water comes from, even underground water.
In their tunnel-vision delirium to win votes from illegal immigrants to maintain control the government (imo), such immigrants needing water to drink like everybody else, Democratic state lawmakers have probably completely overlooked that the state’s water resources need to be expanded accordingly.
To make matters worse:
California is running out of water because the environmentalists are tearing down dams
Crews break ground on largest California dam removal
Friday, June 21, 2013
By Laila Kearney
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Demolition crews on Friday began work on the biggest dam removal in California, a project aimed at protecting homes threatened by the aging, obsolete structure and restoring spawning grounds for native trout.
Plans call for the 94-year-old San Clemente Dam, built on the Carmel River about 120 miles south of San Francisco, to be torn down in stages over three years, followed by rerouting of the river around the dam site and wildlife restoration.
“In 10 years, when you come to the site, you won’t be able to tell there was a dam there,” said Jeff Szytel, founder of contractor Water Systems Consulting, who is overseeing the project.
The demolition is part of a larger safety and restoration effort that will include removal of a smaller dam downstream from San Clemente and recycling of sediment that has built up in the reservoir behind the dam.
The dam was designed to divert Carmel River water to the Monterey Peninsula, but with the reservoir nearly filled with silt that purpose is now carried out through groundwater pumping.
The 106-foot-tall (32-metre-tall) concrete arch dam was deemed seismically unsafe in the early 1990s by the California Department of Water Resources, which concluded that roughly 1,500 homes and public buildings downstream were vulnerable in the event of a major flood or earthquake.
The San Clemente is roughly twice as high as the 55-foot-tall (17-metre-tall) dam dismantled in the early 1970s near the northern California coastal town of Eureka, the largest previously removed in the state, Szytel said.
Tearing down the San Clemente Dam will enable the reopening of 25 miles of creeks and tributaries in the Carmel River watershed, allowing Central California Coast steelhead trout, listed as a threatened species, to return to native spawning areas.
The project’s cost, estimated at $84 million including wildlife restoration, will be shared between the dam’s current owners, the state and federal government.
Groundbreaking on the San Clemente removal follows federal recommendations to remove four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River in Oregon and California to resolve water allocation disputes and restore habitats for Coho salmon and other fish.
I’ve seen this before — it’s an omen — an omen that California is about to be inundated with rain.
This is great news, now we need some locusts to show up...
Kalifornia - the new “dust bowl”
the real facts are that the long term climate cycles for Califnornia are drier than it has been in recent decades
and, the southern San Joaquin Valley never was wet enough for the level of farming it has now, until FDR instiutted water distribution programs to bring the water south and use it for irrigated farming
now, as Kalifornia enters what might actually be a more “normal” drier weather cycle, every interest - residential, commercial and even EPA mandated “endangered species”, and the farmers, all are competing for scarcer water under allocation regulations written long ago & the farmers are only getting 40% of their allotments, while some, like some “endangered species habitats” are getting 100% of theirs
farmers have increased drilling for ground water, which also is getting scarcer, and the result is more occasions of subsidence and sink holes
unless Kalifornia institutes massive desalinization projects on its long coastline, there might not be solutions that will keep water usage at levels that would match all the current projected requirements
That area is my home but now I’m living in Texas. I wish I could be in that low Russian River with my metal detector, no telling what I could find. I do hope they get some rain soon.
Kill the Hetch-Hetchy dam! Oh wait....