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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But what about your liberal friends and there project to save the delta smelt! I think there are much bigger problems!
Let’s also keep in mind that a couple of years ago California drained a reservoir that held 5 years worth of water to save the Delta Smelt fish…which killed thousands of fish in the process. Oh California lol
This region never had the capability to handle the water needs of millions of city dwellers, much less agricultural demands except in the periods of extremely high rain and snowfall. Southern California gets virtually all their water from Northern California and points north, and those regions have had precious little snowfall. Whether it’s is from natural or man – influenced climate change is not material. We engineers have solutions, but they are costly and have their own impacts. Are the citizens of California willing to pay those costs?
Still want that ALS ice bucket Challenge???!!!!! Smh
I guess they gonna have to move to Mexico
OB will provide free water for the illegals
MAYBE.. They should push the millions of gallons of groundwater runoff into the RESERVOIRS instead of the coastal waters to save a stupid smelt fish.
Ahh a smart one. I just posted this below lol. Millions of gallons a month to save a stupid fish that, by the way, is the exact species in Texas.
$#%&!@* California!!
and I bet they’ll still all have their swimming pools filled California’s got more vineyards than any where in the country and more golf courses and swimming pools