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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Or they should quit planting plants in a $#%&!@*in desert
man made by cutting off water to save a stupid fish
At our rate of geometric progression the whole world will run out of water between 2030 to 2050 anyways…the carrying capacity of earth is between 9 to 10 billion after that we don’t have enough water to supply our agriculture which in turn feeds our livestock
Build a pipeline from Washington state..
Facts are facts California shouldn’t be in a water crisis but the tree hugging liberals back in the 70 and 1980s along with environmentalist wouldn’t allow for bigger water resevoir to keep up with demand from the rising population demand of water instead the liberal kept small reservoir and let water over the years run off into the ocean instaed of storing the water now the liberal tree huggers have ran the state out of water i say screw the state of California.
That makes no sense. Irrigation has been mismanaged for years to protect species of fish frogs and thrushes. It is a bad drought but things will get better because nature is unpredictable, not because the boogie man “Big Oil” put down the Starbucks you have a latte hang over.
Guess they are shot out of luck. Comradefornia can go pound sand
they’ll lay claim to somebody elses…
or methane from the water treatment plants…
no they’ll just move elsewhere and screw that up too…