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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Stop giving the water to the fish.
Get the f*** out of the desert
the poor babies and all those with pools in your backyard. Sucking the rivers dry, bad weather patterns and who plants crops in the desert. Over population of the planet will be the death of us all. Resources can only go so far. Look at the hoover dam pics too. Its going to get so low the turbines wont be able to work. There goes Vegas.
The funny thing is that the left picture is almost as rare as the right picture. lake oroville is actually higher than it was last year 🙂 Triple the water rates in LA
so sad!
Good thing I have a place in Nevada…wait…no water there either. C**p.
Get moonbeam on it
Why do they always show lake Oroville?
Maybe if California wasn’t dumping millions of gallons of water straight into the Pacific they wouldn’t have this problem…. ya think?
What more can you expect when they have a Gov. that is called “Moonbeam” who started CA on this slippery slope when he was running the state yrs ago,,,,,,,,,,,,