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 has been going on for 40 years or more. The water is in the north with the wine. People are in the south without water. It is called over population for the land.
I guess they shouldn’t have sold off all their water to other states and countries…dumb$#%&!@*es.
There is a huge ocean that they could build desalination plant to supply water to the m$#%&!@*es …. what to the spend thier money on ???? Hi speed choo Choo Train ….. yea that real smart … once they go belly up we should reject the state charter and disolve the state government ….
Hey, I suggested reservoirs years ago – but 1″ smelt was apparently too important to protect…
But that is something that would take forever, I am talking about countries like China who purchase entire lakes and then when it’s all gone the epa steps in like……it’s a serious drought
http://naturalresources.house.gov/issues/issue/?IssueID=5921
Fair trade. …
This is what happens under a fascist liberal government.
I wonder how much is being used for fracking.