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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Most folks commenting don’t realize CA grows most of the vegetables the United states consumes. Maybe we should cut that off(about 2% of our economy) yet used at least 40% of the water and up to 80% by some estimates.
This is where you show you don’t know what you’re talking about smoochy. At least 40% of our water and up to 80% by some estimates goes into crop/vegetable production. CA largest producer in the country and US gets most of it from CA.
Yet when the east coast and Midwest get hit with hurricanes, floods/tornados the Fed gov to the rescue. Why build in those areas either based on your logic.
Win win if you ask me, no more floods for you guys to worry about.
Midwest has never been hit with a hurricane. SoCal has too many people living there for the average amount of rainfall, they get earthquakes, flash floods, mudslides, wildfires, it’s a completely illogical place to have millions of people live.
I’d like to hear your inputs on how many desalinization plants we need to effectively replace the water needed. I agree to an extent. This entire time we’ve been hearing about saving water but hardly if ever about securing other water sources. Ultimately I see the federal government stepping in if it has to, CA supplies most of the US’ vegetables and fruits.
All you or crazies that moved to California in search of better scenery, or a warmer place to live. Suck it! You just moved to an area that historically is a desert. I live in an area that’s got 50% of the world’s fresh water, and we’ve been declining in population for your 40 years. Oh well, more for me THANKS!
yeah I bet that will help all the endangered wild life in that God Forsaken State!
Unlike the human animal, they will just move on.
They did it to themselves with stupid environmental policy.