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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There aren’t any republicans in California in positions of influence.
LOL goog one Steve. Sadly its not a load of c**p.
Give me a break there are ways around this but libs are to dumb to fix it or allow it to be fixed. In a year California will still have water and this delusional strife will continue!
Dems have restricted themselves to much to allow such a thing to be built, to many laws and regulations in place.
Yep it’s a tragedy that dems keep voting in idiots that restrict any possible solution from coming to fruition because of laws and regulations.
The sky is falling!! I’m going to go out on a limb here. CA won’t run out of water before Las Vegas does.
That’s okay, they’re terminally stupid in California anyway.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/10/californias-drought-and-the-weird-warm-blob-in-the-pacific-that-may-be-fueling-it/
…”Continuing strong prices have some California growers rushing to plant still more trees. In a U.S. Department of Agriculture survey for 2014, 77 percent of state almond farmers polled said they intended to put in new almond acreage despite the drought.”…
There’s your money shot right there. If there were only one gallon left in the whole State these guys would lay claim to it.
want more stories from NASA or you still living on Kool AId