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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If you drank more Tullymore Dew you wouldn’t have this problem.
I bet there’s some interesting things being found where that water used to be
Lol global warming, too cold, global warming, too hot global warming, state running out of water global warming, what next, volcanic eruption global warming. This is a man made issue, because there was no advanced planning back in the seventies; this was the last time California built a reservoir. The real issue here is that a state run by a group of people who don’t want to hurt the environment refuse to plan for a future issue. It has nothing to do with global warming at all
So, you put 38 million people in a desert and wonder why you don’t have enough water?
Desalinization is a hugely energy intensive process and California is already short on energy.
Desalinization. They don’t have the energy in order to produce enough water to make up what they need. Not to mention it takes awhile to design and build a desal plant and get it up and running.
On top of that disposing of the brine created has its own concerns.
And they are going to get the energy from where? And pump the brine created where?
I never had much luck growing corn in a cake myself.
Where are they going to get the energy to run that kind of desal capacity from?
It works , it’s costly and there working on plants.