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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This is scary
I’m curious. As the Greenland & Antarctica land-based (very important) ice sheets are accellerating into the sea, and the oceans are losing their ability to absorb excess heat…
When it becomes clear how serious this is, even to selective readers like yourself,
will you be able to say ‘I was wrong’?.
Yep. That’s like closing the barn door after the horse has left.
Brenda Withey-Richardson Dawn Richardson so are you guys gonna move to AZ or Colorado??
California cities and counties still handing out building permits like Halloween candy. Every permit includes another water pipe being connected to the main supply. They obviously still don’t get it.
Good! It’ll teach our country that we need to finally focus on infrastructure replacement and development and get the 12 million still unemployed back to work!
California high speed rail: “no problem. We got billions.”
Desal plants: “sorry, we’re broke. Can’t fund it.
Unfortunately, a lot of us with some common sense will die too. Just too many morons that keep the same politicians in office.
How about they NOT put out he natural wildfires that burn down all of those mansions this year? That’s a great start.
Whatever happened to cloud seeding? We did that many years ago.