Some of us with IQs over 75 have recognized a pattern in leftist propaganda that has now turned against farms and farmers. It is sad to see an intelligent person such as yourself getting all wrapped up in lefty eco nonsense.
Posted on 01/21/2024 1:27:38 PM PST by Mariner
During California’s most recent drought, officials went to great lengths to safeguard water supplies, issuing emergency regulations to curb use by thousands of farms, utilities and irrigation districts.
It still wasn’t enough to prevent growers in the state’s agricultural heartland from draining dry several miles of a major river for almost four months in 2022, in a previously unreported episode that raises questions about California’s ability to monitor and manage its water amid worsening droughts.
It’s not uncommon, during dry spells, for farmers and other water users in California to draw streams down to a trickle in places. But the severity and duration of the 2022 decline of the river in this case, the Merced, where one stream gauge showed zero water moving past it nearly every day from June to early October, stood out even to experts.
“I was very surprised to see a river of this size without water,” said Jon Ambrose, a biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s fisheries service who visited the Merced’s parched riverbed that August. “This just isn’t something we see. This isn’t something that should be seen as normal.”
The Merced River originates in Yosemite National Park. It rushes through glacier-carved canyons and winds for about 60 miles through the Central Valley before pouring into the San Joaquin River, which nourishes the valley’s southern half.
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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.
“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.”
WEF thought....
[Eat the bugs....]
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
When I lived in Colorado, I loved to see farmers drive into town with their pristine cherry red F250 pickups that had nary a speck of dust nor scratch. They must have been the best farmers ever being able to farm without doing any damage to their trucks.
Maybe they should look to the geoengineering crowd that engineers the droughts .... you know those guys up there spraying all kinds of stuff to modify the weather (and no Karen, it’s not contrails).
“When did you join the leftist cabal and start hating farmers and farming. You do realize that without them we would all probably starve?”
Native Californians of political stripes, including conservative such as myself are sickened by over farming an environment that cannot sustain it.
And it is not “farmers or farming” that is the culprit.
It’s TOO MUCH farming. Easily demonstrable to anyone with an IQ over 75.
The Merced river flows into the San Joaquin river along with about a dozen others.
The San Joaquin dries up completely most years and delta water backflows into it.
And all the fish die. Along with the ecosystem.
All Freepers would be OUTRAGED if this was happening in their state and backyard.
But they are OK with it in CA.
Not noted, but they probably had first water rights.
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.
Bump
I know about farming in dry drought prone country. My family has done it here for 135 years. We don’t irrigate out of the local river (Salt Fork of Brazos). Some manage to irrigate from the ground water charged by the river. It is a question of how far from river bed. And it does contain alkali.
CA has been blessed by some of the best irrigated farmland in the country. But they have idiots running the state right into the ground. I absolutely don’t know how a business survives in CA. Have personal experience with that, too long to explain here.
Lots of CA transplants have moved to Texas. Mixed blessing, but most of those moving to small towns in Texas hate what is happening in CA worse than we do.
Many of the CA transplants have moved to Austin. It is totally insane. We need to flush that element, they are incompatible to the nature of Texas. They want to live under a dictatorial government and too many of them work for the State Government. Suckled at the Government teat, and high on perceived knowledge and power (Insanity). Those in business, I love them.
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Head Shake.
The free market solution is fundamentally simple - make the agribusinesses pay enough for their water so that water agencies can provide them with said water without undermining other water needs. If the price goes high enough for example then they can find a way to desalinate ocean water for example. But I don't expect a free market solution to have much traction in an autocratic state like CA.
(It's not just CA; in Wyoming at the other end of the political spectrum what little agriculture they have relies heavily on the North Platte River. In Casper where I used to live it has a strong flow - modest by standards elsewhere, it's still around 50 yards across and a yard or two deep. But by the time it exits the state you can rock-hop across it over near Torrington.)
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
Some of us with IQs over 75 have recognized a pattern in leftist propaganda that has now turned against farms and farmers. It is sad to see an intelligent person such as yourself getting all wrapped up in lefty eco nonsense.
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
But if we reduce the farms in California, how can the “migrants” make a living? /s
God forbid our farmers EXPORT something. /s
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