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California Or Ethiopia? "Families Dream Every Night About Water"
It's worst and getting worst-er. Hundreds of domestic wells in California's drought-parched Central Valley farming region have run dry, according to AP, leaving many residents to rely on donated bottles of drinking water to get by. With government set to regulate deeper drilling, hope is plunging that a solution to California's drought will come anytime soon as groundwater levels plunge. The stories of struggle are simply stunning, especially given they are coming from America with Governor Brown signing an executive order that provides money to buy drinking water for residents statewide whose wells have dried up. "We need water like we need air," exclaimed one charity leader trying to raise money for water tanks, "Families every night dream about water," said another. And ripped from the famine-headlines of East Africa, "every day [Californians] thinking about how they're going to deal with water."
Hundreds of domestic wells in California's drought-parched Central Valley farming region have run dry, leaving many residents to rely on donated bottles of drinking water to get by.
Girl Scouts have set up collection points while local charities are searching for money to install tanks next to homes. Officials truck in water for families in greatest need and put a large tank in front of the local firehouse for residents to fill up with water for bathing and flushing toilets.
"When you have water running in your house, everything is OK," said East Porterville resident Yolanda Serrato. "Once you don't have water, oh my goodness."
With California locked in its third year of drought and groundwater levels dropping, residents and farmers have been forced to drill deeper and deeper to find water. Lawmakers in Sacramento passed legislation to regulate groundwater pumping, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law this past week.
Three days later, Brown signed an executive order that provides money to buy drinking water for residents statewide whose wells have dried up, while also directing key state officials to work with counties and local agencies to find solutions for the shortages.
But the stories from the streets are shocking...
But many East Porterville residents, like Serrato, say all they want is to get a glass of water from the kitchen sink. Her well dried up nearly two months ago, she said, making life challenging for her husband and three children.
To bathe, they each have to fill a bucket from a 300-gallon tank in the front yard, carry it inside and pour water over their heads with a cup.
They've lived in their home for 21 years, she said. "It's not that easy to say, `Let's go someplace else.' "
In the meantime, charities have stepped up. Local schools, businesses and a religious group in Cincinnati, Ohio, donated water to the community.
Elva Beltran's Porterville Area Coordinating Council has provided 46 homes with 300-gallon tanks, which are filled each week. The group has pallets of donated bottled water and stacks of blue buckets waiting to be distributed.
Beltran said every day a new family comes in seeking help. "They're hurting," she said. "We need water like we need air."
A local bank donated $50,000 to Self-Help Enterprise, so the housing nonprofit can provide more homes with water tanks.
Community development program director Paul Boyer said people have been creative, using solar bags to heat water for bathing and putting tanks in trees to increase water pressure. Boyer said it will be more difficult when it turns cold this winter.
"Families every night dream about water," Boyer said. "Every day they're thinking about how they're going to deal with water."
The well belonging to Vickie Yorba, 94, dried up in February. She now relies on a donated water tank in front of her small home that she and her late husband bought 66 years ago. A neighbor with a deeper well ran a garden hose to Yorba's home.
She is proud of how sparingly she uses water, likening it to the little used during trips she and her husband took years ago to the mountains.
"It isn't hard," she said. "Not if you know how to camp."
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Of course, none of this matters as long as stocks are at record highs...
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Victoria ,Australia.
Drought quick we need a desal plant.
So the mismanaged government project controlled by union thugs runs over budget shitloads! Finally get completed, guess what it rains!
Big waste of tax payer money!!!
Only good thing all the lazy dumb arse tradesmen followed the big money, now the gravy train has stopped.
ITS nature, change your farming practices, stop the high water input crops and grow stuff that's suits the climate.
Eg Grow corn to feed cattle for burgers, dumb.
Grow deep rooted Lucerne/Dactyl for sheep, smarter. Lamb tastes much better the beef.
Queensland too. 2 Desal plants in the Brisbane area built at great expense. When I visited last month I was told the plants are not even in use.
Add South Australia to that list. A massive desal plant at double capacity for present population built because of a few years of dry spells and not used once since completion. We are paying for it by a thieving state government taxing and fining us to the extreme!
Gold and Silver just went green -- and it doesn't take water to make them turn green...
lol green..my daily chart looks like the letter M
1. Disperse metal particulates in the atmosphere
2. Ionize them with directed energy arrays
3. Use these newly created, remotely controllable electric fields to divert atmospheric rivers like the jet stream
4. Observe new phenomena like polar vortexes, persistent high pressure zones shielding the US west coast, snow that nucleates above the freezing point of water, rain water and snow that set off metal detectors, elevated levels of barium and aluminum in the soil (and in human nervous systems...)
Haven't seen chemtrails in Kansas since August. Wettest August in history. September had sever hail storms. Today is the first day that the chemtrails are back. Wonder if that means we will now dry out with a chance of constipated rain.
How much water do they use to spy on us?
Takes a lot to cool all those hundreds of thousands of servers, memory banks and comm gear.
Lots and lots
More than anybody imagines
knukles:
Stop - please.
Gov. Brown has told all the illegals they are welcome in CA, so there must be plenty of water!!! /sarc.
What a bunch of unmitigated idiots . . .
-30-
Why did you have to remind me?
rummaging through the drawers looking for the Xanax
Didn't you get the the memo?
The illegals are net contributers: They spit more water into your food than they consume.
I bet the pot farmers have water.
Let them drink fiat!
Infinite growth on a finite planet....what could possibly go wrong??
http://olduvai.ca
The earth will grow when the excess demand finds the right price.
"De-Sal is too expensive" so is $5.00 gas but it doesn't stop people from paying for it, and it depends on how bad you want a drink of water.
Only Caucasian baby boomers who were stupid enough to ruin the state with that soundbyte would say that.
CA is domianted by boomers which is why it's a complete and utter shithole.
Snoopy was white.
Only Messican beaners who were stupid enough to ruin the state with that soundbyte would say that.
CA is domianted by Messican beaners which is why it's a complete and utter shithole.
I was always hoping california would fall into the ocean...having it burn down in flames might be even sweeter.
Earthquakes...
No problem at all.
Let them drink.........stocks and bonds
I'm a subscriber to this site's weekly newsletter: http://www.sepp.org/the-week-that-was.cfm
Kind of curious that the greens haven't yet inundated this comment thread with their pseudo-science babble.
This makes a grrreat story for the realtors selling the highest end mac mansions,.
Look folks you just gotta buy this . For fucks sake its 40 acre prime real estate , beach front, views that go out there on for miles and the mountains, billowing in smoke, fantastic views , and what the fuck, you really don't want all the fucking riff raff around anyway and this is theeeeeee place my boy.
Man those riff raff peasants are dying out there and leaving faster than lemmings off a cliff, and soon this is gunna be a fucking paradise like no other.
$140 mill and its all yours , and we will for the first year fly in on a daily basis fresh water straight from the top of the Rockies hand shoveled by our lovely ladies you can see prancing around waving their tits at you.
Don't miss this great opportunity as these fucking magnificent spreads are a one time bargain. at this low low price as every fucking Arab that eats sand and has an oil well will be rushing here the second this turns into the next great dust bowl.
For fucks sake grab a bargain while you can
every other house in SoCA has a pool, which the RE agent can market as a water storage container. for a few million you might want your beach front home to have its own desalinization plant. the owner salves their conscience by doing a good thing. like all things in CA its a matter of perspective
State government intervention, and take-over, of the water market will simply insure politically-connected coastal elites keep the golf courses green.
The rest of California can, and will, move to Texas.
They talk about splitting up California into 6 states. I'm thinking of just 2; Eloi-land, and Greater Mad-Maxotopia.
Ethiopia
Let them drink frewt juice. I hear fracking increases flow rates and I know they like stimulation anyway. Time pull that actress out a the tree and fire up the wind/solar desal/RO units. This ought to do wonders for all that fraudclosure bait on the market.
Don't worry. It won't be long before Veolia owns the great lakes and the rest of the Midwest's water and builds a pipeline to CA. I'm sure the rates will be fair.
I'll never forget the day I submitted a bid for a project at the Milwaukee Metropilitan Sewer District Jones Island facility and the bid form header had Veolia Environmental Services. I did some research that was really scary....Google Veolia and water privatization. I soon figured out why some French company was so eager to come all this way and collect my garbage.
Sorry Dad.
All the great lakes are also canadian waters. Yes. Even Lake Michigan. Lake Michigan & Huron are actualy one lake.
So unless we start a war with Canada or suitably compensate them, the only way water is getting to Cali from there is in the form of beer.
It's miller time!
"And I looked down upon their suburban hovels and found that their feet were running to badness all the time and their filth runith over.
And I cast my iPod upon the land and smited it, declaring, "I will not let it rain on California until they repent, for their sins and vulgarity have piled up clear to the heavens and they have become unto me a ant bite on a hemmoroid.""
And so it came to be the heavens became constipated and the rain stopped and the sun bliste down upon them. For I am Theodious Pipple the Prophet and I have spoken.
Theodious, Chapter 2, subsection 4 under The Dirge of the Morons
Peak Agua, bitches
Much as I liked Southern California back in my youth, I find my traditional family home on the shores of Lake Superior provide me the life style I prefer. Boreal forests, lakes, rivers and Great Lakes rocky shore lines. Cold as fuck, but if you are born to it, like me, it is lovely way to pass one's life time. But to be honest, few people live here because of the extreme cold and very short summers.
you can get that in washington state or oregon without the extreme temperature swings.
You call those states weather extreme? Guess you never lived in Kansas.............
Where are the desalinization plants?
Well they won't be sitting plugged into the nuclear power plants to make them work in Commiefornia. Maybe they can run them on unicorn shit?
Cactus juice...perhaps next earthquake will frack some water to the surface.
Dont worry, the Kalifornicators will find a way to get a Federal bull issued (via the EPA, perhaps) that will make it illegal for a resident of GA to use water for their lawn. That way, we can all sympathize with CA!
A lack of water is really going to be beneficial for property values. Snark, snark.
Meanwhile, the resevoirs around here are full pool.
Just got an inch of rain last week, expecting another inch in a couple of days. This northern californian is optimistic.
I suggest they read Dune.
Perhaps it's time to stop growing rice?
http://calrice.org/industry/about-crc
http://www.mapsofworld.com/usa/thematic-maps/usa-rice-oats-growing-area....
"You know what it's gonna be in a thousand years!!!? It's gonna be sand!!! ohhhh ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Miss that dude!
Send the 10-20 million illegals back to where they came from and the problem is solved. A desert environment can only support so many people. Add to that the incredibly stupid type of farming that goes on in the state (rice, really?), and the place is a disaster waiting to happen.
Life getting simpler, Kunstler style.
I hear the icecaps are growing again... They should look into sectioning off some iceburgs and then towing them in!
California. A third world dump.
Maybe Kofi Annan can start up a new water-for-food scam.
The mass exodus began about a year ago, driving here in Washington state I see about 1 out of every 3 plates are from California.
Traffic went from a nightmare a few short years ago to complete gridlocked insanity today. Seattle to Olympia late friday night can take 3 hours! That drive took 1 hour about 2 years ago.
I guess no one told them all the water up here is spoken for, I suggest they check out the great lakes.
GTFO!!
This sums up the problem, government! I can't say that I feel sorry for the communist state. You get the government that you elect!
With California locked in its third year of drought and groundwater levels dropping, residents and farmers have been forced to drill deeper and deeper to find water. Lawmakers in Sacramento passed legislation to regulate groundwater pumping, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law this past week.
Time for California to mobilize her armies and invade Seattle, I heart lots of rain up there
Cali is on its way to a population of 50 million or more.
3rd world people are NOT into conservation, ecology, so enjoy the
future.
Overpopulation in the United States will become THE single
greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century. We either
solve it proactively or nature will solve it brutally for us via water
shortages, energy crisis, air pollution, gridlock,
species extinction and worse.
U.S. population will double from 300 million to 600 million on
its way to 1 billion in the lifetime of a child born today if we
fail to change course.(2000)
- Frosty Wooldridge
How
Many More Millions Of Immigrants Can America Take?
By Frosty Wooldridge February 2010
Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
-God
Seventy years living in the Great Lakes region has shown me water and rain patterns are weird. Going back a few years I thought the Great Lakes would dry up. A friend of mine had a 55 foot beach on Lake Michigan. My lake in Mi’s U.P. had an unheard of sand beach of 20 feet wide (lake down 3 feet from average).
Now it has completely reversed. This year my lake overflowed up 6 feet from average from excessive snow and a fast melt. I lost my septic and it came close to my cottage. We finally got the lake back under control July 1 and back down 5 feet by August 1 using multiple sewage pumps. Then it started again. It rained on average every 36 hours through August and the lake has now moved back up 2.5 feet. Oh well.
So give it a year or two and CA will be complaining of floods and mud slides again…
If Californians like Jerry Brown would devote moar time to serious problems instead of working on Hyperlinkls from the Border to the Free Safe Zones in and around LA he's creating, Cali might not be in these dire straights.
You don't miss your water till your well runs dry bitchez!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erg4DPUMyIU
Poor babies!
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/all/modules/blockquote/images/menu-leaf.g...); background-position: 100% 100%;">"To bathe, they each have to fill a bucket from a 300-gallon tank in the front yard, carry it inside and pour water over their heads with a cup."
I guess they haven't yet mastered the art of living with little water, as our ancestors did previously. It looks like these people want to hang on the concept of "shower", when they should abandon it and lood for alternatives. No, they will not get their daily shower. Yes, they will survive. What's wrong with washing up at the sink and then taking a bath every week?
Poor babies!
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/all/modules/blockquote/images/menu-leaf.g...); background-position: 100% 100%;">"To bathe, they each have to fill a bucket from a 300-gallon tank in the front yard, carry it inside and pour water over their heads with a cup."
I guess they haven't yet mastered the art of living with little water, as our ancestors did previously. It looks like these people want to hang on the concept of "shower", when they should abandon it and lood for alternatives. No, they will not get their daily shower. Yes, they will survive. What's wrong with washing up at the sink and then taking a bath every week?
Lot's a folks out West they say,
leavin' home most every day,
beating the hot old dusty trail to a
Rocky Mountain clime...
( there's jobs underneath them hills! With shoppin' malls an' ever'thang!)
"Here's what we do. We go down to some rainy place like the Yucatan, kill everybody and drink like fish!" - Karl Sonnengazer, CEO of the CEO CORP., Rancho Bernardo, Ca.
NOBODY * MENTION * DELTA * SMELT
70% of the surface water in Commiefornia is used by agrilculture. Well they used too anyway. Now they flush what they got out to sea to save the fish. Even though the fish have been starved out in prehistory by epic doughts that lasted hundreds of years. Fucking fish. Unfuckingbelievable...except that there are still swimmingpools and water parks and green mowed median strips in the gate communities. Eventually even that can be gone though and the drought will get to the fish ten.
Then the LORD's anger will burn against you, and he will shut up the heavens so that it will not rain and the ground will yield no produce, and you will soon perish from the good land the LORD is giving you.
Deuteronomy 11 17
Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.”
1 Kings 17 1
He turns rivers into a desert,
springs of water into thirsty ground,
a fruitful land into a salty waste,
because of the evil of its inhabitants.
Psalm 107 33,34
How much water is needed to make one gallon of milk?!
Water Slows But Milk Flows
Go vegan!
http://sgtreport.com/2014/09/target-of-the-engineered-drought-catastrophe-california/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsYG5emdZp8
Target of the Engineered Drought Catastrophe: California