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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You do realize that 90% of California’s water consumption is for agriculture in those “off coast counties. “
Desalination is not cheap. Look at Australia’ s experience when th ed tried to build their way out of a drought. It ended and now they have very expensive and unused desalination plants that they are still paying for.
Like, ohio?
How is rain affected by those things?
Save on toilet flush water… Pee in the shower, and pee in the back yard… Some estimates say this would save over 2,000 gallons per person per year.
No. It’s a drought. Northern California is just as dry as the south right now.
Nice try. But 90% of water consumption in California is for Agriculture.
You forgot one thing: drought.
Agriculture uses 90% of water consumed in the state.
Sounds like a man made liberal issue.
And nor cal is about to shut the valve! Better start peeing in a cup