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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To bad. The crazy tree huggers sent their backup water out to ocean to save a bait fish. Now the bait fish will die anyway and they have no water no backup plan and winning poor me. Tough luck. California reap what you sew
Now their Rediculious bait fish will die anyway and California has no water sucks to reap what you dish out.
And all that pacific ocean, and the so called genius’s that can’t figure out how to use all the water from the ocean.
Next thing you know, they’ll want to pipe in water from the mighty Mississippi River.
That’s what you get for living in a desert and not acting like it.
Northern California is ok.
sweet
Too many people – in what’s largely a desert. Unsustainable.
How much has California’s population grown over the past century? And how much has its water resources – its own, not other places?
The picture is Shasta Lake.
Use the waves to run generators, even more environmentally sound, and there are always waves in the ocean