Jay Familglietti, NASA’s top water scientist, recently warned that California has only a year’s supply of water left in storage facilities and the backup groundwater is rapidly depleting. Despite this harrowing fact, California has no backup plan to address this crisis.
“California has no contingency plan for a persistent drought like this one (let alone a 20-plus-year mega-drought), except, apparently, staying in emergency mode and praying for rain,” stated Familglietti. “In short, we have no paddle to navigate this crisis.”
UPDATE: California Gov. Jerry Brown issues ineffectual, mandatory water restriction as one-third of our nation’s crops are threatened. See Page 3 for updates.
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farmers in the south east need to start planting the long term foods, trees and vines, California will not be able to feed the country for forever. And even if they could food prices will go up. time to plant the avocado where the tobacco used to grow.
Yeah, but that smelt is safe!
Wow
If only we could get the earth to warm up for a while and melt those polar ice caps a Lil bit. We would have an influx of fresh water .
Its one thing to leach out the salt, heavy metals and other chemical contaminants but what are you gonna do with the cesium? Ship it BACK to Japan? They will just dump it back in the ocean with the cesium that’s flowing daily now, not to mention the other 1500 or so isotopes already in that water and added to daily.
Rand 2016
Screw California
Yeah right into the ocean.
Bleach won’t kill the gr$#%&!@*
Ocean water evaporates and comes down as salt free rainwater