Posted on 03/13/2015 11:09:46 AM PDT by blam
Tyler Durden
03/13/2015
Authored by NASA Senior Water Scientist Jay Famiglietti, originally posted Op-Ed at The LA Times.
Given the historic low temperatures and snowfalls that pummeled the eastern U.S. this winter, it might be easy to overlook how devastating California's winter was as well.
As our wet season draws to a close, it is clear that the paltry rain and snowfall have done almost nothing to alleviate epic drought conditions. January was the driest in California since record-keeping began in 1895. Groundwater and snowpack levels are at all-time lows. We're not just up a creek without a paddle in California, we're losing the creek too.
Data from NASA satellites show that the total amount of water stored in the Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins that is, all of the snow, river and reservoir water, water in soils and groundwater combined was 34 million acre-feet below normal in 2014. That loss is nearly 1.5 times the capacity of Lake Mead, America's largest reservoir.
Statewide, we've been dropping more than 12 million acre-feet of total water yearly since 2011. Roughly two-thirds of these losses are attributable to groundwater pumping for agricultural irrigation in the Central Valley. Farmers have little choice but to pump more groundwater during droughts, especially when their surface water allocations have been slashed 80% to 100%. But these pumping rates are excessive and unsustainable. Wells are running dry. In some areas of the Central Valley, the land is sinking by one foot or more per year.
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Dust Bowl in Reverse...........................
If California would invest in large-scale desalination facilities like Israel and redirect some of that (purportedly rising) ocean water inland, instead of chasing $17 billion train fantasies, they might be able to get on top of this issue.
But.. being democrats, they’d rather have the issue, rather than the solution.
Ah.. missed your post. GMTA.
I was just up at Shasta Reservoir...its up nearly 15ft from November...and just feet from the banks at the top. California goes through drought cycles...seen it all before...the only thing changing is the illegal invasion and the lefty politics destroying the state.
Which is one reason I'm happy to be in Virginia. Water supply is absolutely not a problem here.
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Back in the 1890’s, a bunch of California businessmen and ranchers, realizing that they lived in a DESERT that was prone to long periods of water shortage, got together and created a water system that turned the desert valleys into lush, productive lands, some of the most productive in the world.
It was done largely using their own money, through the wonder of private enterprise.
Now, flash forward to the 1990’s, 2000’s....
The liberal, Democrat-buying EcoNazi’s, now in control via the organs of government, begin tearing down dams, as well as the water storage behind them, and demanding the “flee Flow” of water to protect a questionably “endangered” smelt, and restricting through edict how much water the farmers can have.
RESULT:
The first heavy drought after these changes begins threatening even human life in these areas, due to lack of water.
CAUSE?
MEET EFFECT....
Put government in charge of regulating the water. That’ll help. /s
Earth to NASA scientist...It has one year left WITH water...!
But we got a hella fast train gonna be ready in 15 years at a cost only 4.5 times what it is budgeted at and that’s important when it comes to topping off union pensions. So stop your racism.
Lets see who wins when the hippies get thirsty
- the food supply
- some obscure water bug
They have an entire ocean of water, it’s called the P a c i f i c desalination technics already exist.
‘Course you gotta pay for it but that beats starving.
(How come spell check tells me that “gotta” is notta good word?)
I have no sympathy for people who lavish water on manicured lawns with tropical plants from Florida-when they live in a semi-arid area. Whether it is Cali or Texas, they need to plant and live with the vegetation God put in the area and quit wasting the water.
I’m pretty sure fruit/nut growers can grow something that sells besides almonds and avocados that doesn’t need enough water daily to supply the needs of a household for a week. And are they too good to use captured rainwater-or use household gray water to water the plants/yard like most of us do out here?
Sorry, but sensible conservation of water and other natural resources is near and dear to me...
Decoded:
There will be a ‘crisis’ THIS summer.
Imagine a state where they have one of the longest coastlines in the US and they are running out of water.............
THAT’S HOW THEY GOT INTO THE MESS THEY ARE IN!
Put the government in charge of the Sahara Desert and in five years there will be a shortage of sand.........William F. Buckley Jr
Imagine a state where they have one of the longest coastlines in the US and they are running out of water.............
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They rather spend it on bringing in more criminal Mexicans and keeping them happy and fat.
With nuke powered desalination plants, California could have all the water it needs.
and thirsty..................but unclean................
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