Posted on 06/30/2015 4:09:06 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Domestic and agricultural wells are going dry all over Central California, especially in the corridors south of Fresno to the Grapevine, along the Sierra Nevada foothills, and out west of the 99 Freeway — anywhere there is not a deep aquifer. I have never seen anything quite like this water madness in 60 years, as families scrimp and borrow to drill, or simply move to town to take advantage of municipal wells. I have developed a habit as I drive to work to Stanford of counting the abandoned homes I see west of Highway 41 (sort of like counting those who sit in Wal-Mart not to shop, but to enjoy the air conditioning they cannot afford). The number increases each week. Retired couples — or families in general — apparently do not have tens of thousands of dollars to drill a deeper well, especially given the uncertainty of how fast the dropping water table will soon make their investment superfluous. Without water, there is nothing.
Some dry farmland is turning into vacant parcels. Many rural homes must have potable water trucked in. Hispanics who recently immigrated to California and bought or rented older homes with shallow wells in these areas of the valley countryside have no money to drill deeper $30,000 domestic wells. Nor do many poor whites, who often live in isolated communities in the foothills. Who has the capital to gamble on finding scarce water in dicey granite seams? There is no water in the reservoirs left to recharge the water table or to fill canals that can be tapped for domestic use.
(Excerpt) Read more at victorhanson.com ...
California may suffer a net population loss soon, which is astonishing.
Another reason to get out of the commie state!
My brother and is family just left today for Texas! God bless them!
When I saw the headline I thought it was referring to the state treasury.
Now it'll be the Callies moving to Oklahoma.
The Democrats have to face that choice.
Partly self inflicted?
Reminds me of the rolling brownouts of a few years ago. The libs had a not-in-my-backyard, keep nature pristine attitude about power plants and power generation and found themselves running short on power.
Must have fixed the problem.
Hoping the housing market keeps going up here one more year in the Bay Area, we are 11 months out from selling and au revoir California
Why would you think that? They've never faced it before, so why should that change?
The state is rolling in dough, just buy some water.
Politics aside ... you are correct. The State has plenty of money. I know they are spending heavy on desalinization plants. Haven’t read much more than that though.
You mean the Mexicans might go home? Good.
VDH is not given to over-statement.
So, we all had best be alert.
God will not be mocked.
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Just 10 short months after California Governor and all around liberal dumbass Jerry Brown (Dem) invited hordes of ILLEGAL aliens into the state he is now saying the state is overpopulated and is pushing the idea of depopulation. Only 10 months later!
Now that, my FRiends, is what democRATs call leadership!
August 26, 2014 Jerry Brown: Immigrants, citizen or not, 'welcome in California'
June 22, 2014 Jerry Brown pushing depopulation in California: Too many people, not enough water, something has to go!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...
60% of the illegals still come here, and that isn’t going to change anytime soon.
This breaks my heart. Not that I have any great love for CA, which was lost in the mid-sixties IMHO; but because it is still the land of my birth, and my ancestors were pioneers there, and I still have many cousins there. During the past 3 years, when I made many trips to Fresno, as my mother died (at 101) and I witnessed this devastation first hand.
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