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"Nobody Has Any Idea How Disastrous It's Going To Be" Warns California Water Expert
Newly released images created from NASA satellite data illustrate the staggering effect the California drought has had on groundwater supply in the state. As Mashable's Patrick Kulp explains, the images show the amount of water lost over the past 12 years, with different colors indicating severity over time. “Nobody has any idea how disastrous it’s going to be,” Mike Wade of California Farm Water Coalition told the Associated Press, as RT reports a growing number of communities in central and northern California could end up without water in 60 days due to the Golden state’s prolonged drought. While California is bearing the brunt, experts note "We're seeing it happening all over the world, in most of the major aquifers in the arid and semi-arid parts of the world."
California is currently experiencing the third year of one of the most severe short-term droughts ever recorded. Data from U.S. Drought Monitor shows that as of Sept. 30, 82% of the state is facing extreme or exceptional drought conditions.
But the state is not the only area being plagued by critical drops in groundwater reserves. Data collected by GRACE indicates that the supply of groundwater is in decline worldwide, especially in regions that rely on it most.
"We're seeing it happening all over the world. It's happening in most of the major aquifers in the arid and semi-arid parts of the world where we rely on those aquifers. But we're able to see now the impact we're having on this over exploitation," Famiglietti told Science Magazine.
But it's getting extremely serious in California (as RT reports),
A growing number of communities in central and northern California could end up without water in 60 days due to the Golden state’s prolonged drought.
There are now a dozen of small communities in Central and Northern California relying on a single source of water – which has the water resources board concerned they will not have any at all in two months’ time.
At a mobile home park north of Oroville, more than 30 families are severely cutting back. The water supply is so tight it is shut off entirely between 10 pm and 5 am, according to CBS Sacramento. The families are relying on one well – all the others have dried up – and have to drive five miles to buy drinking water for themselves and their animals.
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“Nobody has any idea how disastrous it’s going to be,” Mike Wade of California Farm Water Coalition told the Associated Press.
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Guys
The St Lawrence Seawall drains the Great Lakes
That water becomes salty when it flows into the ocean.
We need to build a pipeline from the Great Lakes to the Colorado River
And fill the Boulder Dam and the other Dams
Then pump the water to California through the existing pipelines.
Don't panic Do something
That ideas far too good. So it wont happen
I'm an Athiest Canadian......., I'm doing my part. I all ways flush twice........you know it all flows downhill. The controls America have put me through.....Payback will be sweet. Sweet I say!!!!!!!!!
I do not like your Politics..................Stop forcing them on me and I could change my mind.......Family fought American Aggressions both in Ontario and Manitoba.........Started in 1812......I've native blood in me as well. How do you like me so far?
Canadians are all decended from draft dodgers.
Which explains why their average IQ is about 30 higher.
Humans never learn.
Cali and Nevada are draining the Colorado and Rockies already, now you suggest we drain the middle?
What, you pick up extra cash from the Agenda 21 people?
It is a freaking DESERT.
It will return to desert.
Just like you and I
Ruining the middle of the country - if not the Gulf too - won't solve much long term.
We humans really are parasites on this big blue marble.
That was Lyndon Larouches idea in the 80's.
Irrigate the desert, corner the food market.
It is just like taxes, once it is in place they will suck it dry and F' everyone in the Midwest at the same time.
They'll only stick it in a little - honest.
Most humans are insanely if not terminally short-term oriented. And politicians and corporate executives are the most insanely short-term oriented, since their situations are purposely designed to generate massive positive feedback for short-term gains, and zero negative feedback for long term disaster.
The fact is, humans have been sucking aquifers dry since large scale farming began. Per usual behavior, they knew this for many decades, but did almost nothing to prepare for the certain eventual consequences. And so, humans asked for the disasters they experience. Most of them, anyway.
PS: As a scientist and engineer, I can see these problems are soluable given some modest creativity, attention, funding and existing technology. However, humans would rather spend all their "free cash" killing each other and controlling each other than solve real problems. And so, humans will get what they deserve. Most of them, anyway.
Hint: Areas a few hundred miles away have mucho excess water much of the year. But let's just run around in circles and spend funds to pay predators to "do studies" rather than build infrastructure that solves these problems for decades if not centuries.
Would stopping spraying of hygroscopic particulates into the stratosphere be a good way to proceed?
...and spending billions building mass transit to nowhere.
Also we could tow a few iceberg s from Antarctica , the have record ice, park them of the coast and pump the water into the Sacramento River.
We are allowed to think up solutions
Aren't we?
Or must we submit to the control freaks
I hope this means they won't shut off the Jurassic Park ride at Universal Studios...
Honestan: PS: As a scientist and engineer, I can see these problems are soluable given some modest creativity, attention, funding and existing technology. However, humans would rather spend all their "free cash" killing each other and controlling each other than solving real problems. And so, humans will get what they deserve. Most of them, anyway.
I agree. The problems are ridiculously easy to solve. We have the tech. If we just stopped fragging each other for like 3 to 4 years we would live in a virtual paradise. As it is, it's a total mis allocation of resources and creativity.
Epic fail as a species.
But hey, it's 7:24 on Sunday evening, don't we have some poor hapless people to go bomb for the next twenty fucking years and ruin millions of more lives?
The Alaska pipelines
Are they still being used ? Use them for water
Build two pipelines, one from the mouth of the Columbia River, say The Dalles, to Goose Lake, and the other from the lower Mississippi, somewhere around Memphis, to Lake Powell. Lots of work for people, and no blowing things up. Pay for it by cancelling the F-35 program.
The U.S. continues to get fruits and veggies, and no need to abandon Las Vegas or Los Angeles.
booooyyyaaaah: The Alaska pipelines
Are they still being used ? Use them for water.
Yes, if I am not mistaken the oil is sold on the world market and goes to Asia (Japan).
Please correct me if I am wrong.
"no one saw this coming." - JB
See if you can find information on the "Cotto Valley Resevoir Project".
Some silly sod in the Reagan Administration thought the state was going to run low on water in the future and thought it might be wise to build more reservoirs. The greens killed the project via some Indian lands. I have been to the Cotto Valley. I met the Indians. They wanted to sell.
Esculent 69..... yea, the down arrows are a riot. So go ahead and debate me greenies. You jerks fail to realize you have 80-90 years on this rock. Make the best of it. Roll with it.
At the end of the day every fucking molecule of you will be returned to "giaa". You know what assholes?
Right next to you will be molecules of those plastic bags.... and some comets....and some moon dust... and that dog shit in your front yard......and those spent fuel rods, it's all you. LOL.
It's a goddamned salad and you are but one infinitesimal extraordinarily UNREMARKABLE fucking ingredient. You are not even a poppy seed.
Deal with it.
oh...and BTW..............
WTF is with those teeth?
Duc88- WTF is with those teeth?
If she's married, to a man, that vagina probably smells like a Tonton. You thought it smelled bad on the outside.
How about this insame lunatic facist dickhole.
He unapologetically advocates bloodthirsty dictatorship:
This is Finnish writer Pentti Linkola — a man who demands that the human population reduce its size to around 500 million and abandon modern technology and the pursuit of economic growth
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-face-genocidal-eco-fascism
Santa Barbara built a desalination plant during the last "drought" which was moth balled when it rained. They are thinking of bringing it online again.
I would be comfortable with $2000 per acre foot of water, which is what some of the of the desalination plant projects project.
Though most people start to scream at 10 dollars. Can you imagine the price of california grown crops!
Building homes in a desert and calling it a oasis. Who would of thought?
A head of lettuce needs 99 acre feet of water and costs 99 gallons of deisel fuel to make it to your wholesaler who sells it to the retailer who sells it to you for 99 cents and it still makes money. How is that possible? numbers may have been made up for artistic porpoises.
It's a good thing we have all those water vapor automobiles championing climate change in California.
The plan has worked out so well, they can't get water under under normal Earth ecosystem process.
/LOL
I guess so. You would need a fleet of diesel helicopters to pick up a head of lettuce of that size.
Hmm, ebola coincidentally spreading just as global water shortages are coming down the pipe. Less people need less H2O... just sayin
Funny shit here >>>>>>
"This week saw the 18th anniversary since the Earth's temperature last rose - something that Dr Benny Peiser, from the Global Warming Policy Forum, says experts are struggling to understand.
He explains that we are now in the midst of a "crisis of credibility" because the global warming - and accompanied 'Doomsday' effects - that we were once warned about has not happened.
Scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) once predicted a temperature rise of 0.2 degrees per decade - but are now baffled by the fact our planet's temperature has not increased for almost two decades."
http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/518497/Exclusive-interview-with-Dr-...
"Scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)" More useless fucktardio non producing leachfucks.
robertocarlos: A head of lettuce needs 99 acre feet of water...............
Fer fucks sake go sell stupid someowhere else. I grew some lettuce in my garden quite nicely this summer and one head sure as shit did not take me 99 acre ft of water to grow. Oh, and I drove my diesel truck about 3/4 mile to the fire dept parking lot to sell the extra heads of lettuce "wholesale" and it might have cost me 3 shot glasses of diesel.
California is the new Babylon. It is not a coincidence that they are experiencing a severe drought.
A note for the many people who misunderstand desalination. Conventional desalination is a viable and expensive-but-affordable process to create drinking water. In extreme circumstances, conventional desalination is also plausible for showers, toilets and washing dishes. However, conventional desalination is vastly too expensive for conventional farming.
For the most water-saving forms of growing, conventional desalination may be marginally affordable for the most expensive veggies.
However, some unconventional desalination processes seem to be viable on a larger scale to generate large quanities of water cheaper than conventional desalination. But even the best of these techniques are still much too expensive to generate water for growing inexpensive crops.
The delivery of large quanities of fresh water from locations a few hundred miles away where excess rainfall is available much of the year is the only cheap-enough solution that I know of for commodity farming.
This is also probably the best way to refill those depleted aquifers... IF... they can be refilled. Probably some of them cannot be refilled, because when they are depleted the entire earth surface above them gradually falls and compresses much of the empty space out of existence. But I don't know enough about this topic to know how big a problem this is.
Reminds me of these occutards crying over their stupid "library"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hJ4AOtnEUs
Get those Delta tunnel boring machines into over drive! Desalination too in case the tunnel boring machine gets stuck!
Bring back the American Indians and have them do mass rain dances.
Esculent 69: This is Finnish writer Pentti Linkola — a man who demands that the human population reduce its size to around 500 million and abandon modern technology and the pursuit of economic growth.
FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"They" never volunteer!!!!!!!
Never!
I say lead by example, tell this fucktard to take a gun and blast everyone in his family and extended family through their forehead.
Centerpunch their skulls with lead and then go suck on the barrel of the gun himself.
After all, it''s only logical, right?
The Drought is working overtime, bullish. Buy the drip. Ive got some ocean front property in an very Aridzona.
Duc888-The day these asholes start posting videos of their strong felt beliefs then I'll start taking them seriously. They always want everyone else to go first.
http://www.vhemt.org/
I dare you vhemt to start posting videos. Do it!
Apparently Linkola already thinks he leads by an example. For decades he has made a meagre living by fishing and writing, doesn't have a water line or sewer access and uses what little money he has to buy land and let it be in its "natural" state. People living like this are not the problem to him, of course, but the vast majority who refuse to respect nature and abandon most technology.
Can have some of our water in FL it has been like monsoon season down here this year, violent storms almost everyday and tons of rain!
Solution is trivial:
Expel the millions of foreign invaders, millions living on entitlements, exell all gangbangers (plenty in CA), kill entire prison population, ban all water use for landscaping (eg lawns), increase cost of water by factor of 10, and ration births to only 1 per family who must first prove that they have sufficient income to fully support the family and ALL family expenses.
This country is almost exclusively foreign invaders.
For not liking socialism, you sure do propose massive power increases for the state.
Socialism is the politicians stealing the earnings from those who earned them and using the loot to buy the votes of those who did not earn the money, socialism says nothing about the constructive size or legitimate power of the government. If the "government" consisted on ONLY the confiscation and redistribution of earnings, then it would still be socialist even though it dit nothing else.
"Socialism is the politicians stealing the earnings from those who earned them and using the loot to buy the votes of those who did not earn the money"
That is one definition of government yes thank you.
You make to much sense for CA.
Deliciousteak: Apparently Linkola already thinks he leads by an example. For decades he has made a meagre living by fishing and writing, doesn't have a water line or sewer access and uses what little money he has to buy land and let it be in its "natural" state. People living like this are not the problem to him, of course, but the vast majority who refuse to respect nature and abandon most technology.
Yes, but he is still using oxygen, you see? He is still "taking" from Mother Earth. So indeed this is a parasitic relationship. He needs to off himself immediately.
Wait just a minute! Kali, being next to the ocean is NOT "out of water", it is only out of water that is at a price that government wants to pay for it. Kali could build seawater conversion plants, but it is still too beholden to enviro-fascists to build them in the numbers needed to supply water needs. So, all the cheap water will be consumed and the liberal panty-waste "progressives" will suck their thumbs, and tell everyone there is nothing left do.
If anyone inists that Kali is really out of water, both Iceland and Fiji would be happy to sell them vast pallet loads of bottled water at a good price. And FedEx will be happy to ship it just about anywhere on the planet overnight.
So, don't tell me about being "out of water". What the morons in Kali are is OUT OF COMMON SENSE.
Call it cosmic justice.
California is a desert. What's the problem? Oh, people wish to live in the desert. Now i understand. Too bad they don't.
Imagine for a moment it is 1970 and there aren't 40 million PLUS 10 Million Illegals in California; Imagine that there are only around 15 million people...ah lots of water for Everyone! But NOOO, the US govt in its "compassion" decided to give one of the most beautiful places on the planet to third worlders so not California is only about 20% white and the immigrants are the rest. Now imagine you had only reproductive grown from the native (white, sorry but it's true) population in California...right now you'd be at around 19 million people in California and it would still be a great state instead of a cesspool of illegals, cement, and pollution.
Last time I went to LA I didn't do the treadmill because of the air, and I was staying in Santa Monica where you'd think the breezes would make it better.
As a born-in-Californian, I resent more than I can say the giving away of my state in a treasonous act of the destruction of whites because...now why is that again? Oh yeah, whites were successful...right right right...Communism can't take over if whites are present in any kind of numbers.
You make it sound like South Africa - after they "solved" apartheid by ushering in Communism and giviing the country over to illiterates who could not farm or run a business. Time to announce a State Day Of Prayer for rain , Jerry Brown, or are you beyond that?
I think you missed what happened there Jojo. "they" handed off control of Africa to crooked foreigners who are there to steal natural resources, and buy up farmland, and setup little dictatorships to chop off the arms of any pesky locals who put up a fight.
Why don't they just move to where the fresh water is?
All the water is on store shelves. Right next to the beer, soft drinks, sport drinks, ice tea..............just have to pay for it.
Was that a Sam Kinison reference? One of the best comedy acts of all time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0q4o58pKwA
What a *great* infrastructure project!!! Jobs, jobs, jobs! Jack up California, and move it to Maine. But, it won't fit in Maine. What to do the the parts that won't fit? Pack it off to China?
The problem is that the price of water went from $90 per acre of water to $900 per acre of water. The big farmers have water. The little farmers are out of business. Maybe just the corporate farmers will be all that is left.
Pretty soon, there won't be water for any farms in CA big or small. Then the fit will hit the shan.
I'm sorry, you misspelled "only" as "maybe."
I wanted to give a shout out to the people exposing geoengineering on these boards. I believe that spraying the stratosphere with hygroscopic particles drives moisture down and temperature up.
Tonite at 830pm in western WA it was 70 degrees. Plus there were lines in the sky.
It used to be around 50F this time of year in the evening back in the day.
Naahh, Nesle will pump water out of Maine and Florida, and sell it to California for 20.00 a gallon. Problem solved. Until Maine and Florida run out of water. Nestle is already doing a fine job on the Great Lakes regions.
For all of you making light of CA's water issues, just remember that 1 ot of every 5 things you put in your mouth (ahem .... to eat) comes from the San Joaquin Valley. This season 300 million heads of lettuce were not grown in this region. Next year it may be 600 million.
I grew up in the SJV, but hadn't been back to visit since 2008. My sister-in-law is a produce buyer for a major supermarket chain, based out of Fresno. If any of you who think this is a joke spent 10 minutes talking to her you wouldn't be laughing any more.
As I drove north on Hwy 99 from LA to the SJV I passed farm after farm (that used to be the envy of the world) now growing nothing but tumbleweeds. What were once tens of thousands of acres of walnuts, pistachios, peaches, apricots, etc., have all been bulldozed. Their trees are all dead, so their crop this year was firewood. It will be their last crop until rain and abundant water returns, and then it will likely take a good 7 years after that for whatever fruit/nut trees they re-plant are mature enough to bear fruit.
What part of this are you folks not understanding?
Those trees were bulldozed years ago when the water was shut off to save some endangered minnow and yet they are still saving the F'ing minnow.
As I have already mentioned, wait for the tax on the rest of us in the US to subsidize water for people living in deserts who continue to be shocked that they are running out of water.
The government has killed the small farmer through regulation and tax in favor of the giant farm conglomerates, all located in arid and desert locations. Once again the stupidity of the left working to F' you and me.
If there is a dollar crash/tumble or any kind, the effect of food affordability will be exacerbated by the lack of supply.
If you want to make people scream for someone to "do something," this is a good way to do it.
I've also read that the weather manipulation over the Pacific is the minor consequence of preventing Fuku radiation from hitting land and making the land totally worthless.
Which, if I were a prospective buyer, would not want.
I'm not sure if they give a shit if the W coast is radioactive. It would just play into the hand of shortened life span in the name of population control. It would also boost the medical industry's cancer treatment income. And then there's the radioactive ocean water...
Load train loads of WV coal and ship it to California to power a desalination plant, the CA leftists deserve it.
So there are people here that are still stuck on the 'left' and 'right' paradox? lolz...
Time to wake up and realize that to our 'masters' we are all equally worthless.
Some are stuck in believing that someone who calls themselves conservative are actual conservatives.
There is a true left/right ideology but the left has infiltrated the political right almost as much as they have infiltrated our government.
The left believes they are so much smarter than you and they should rule you - because... just because.
Most folks don't seem to get the flow chart here.
HAARP ---> causes drought (water control) ---> destroys farms through lack of water ---> family farmers sell their land ---> Monsanto and other ag corps buy land / investors invest in weather derivatives ---> food supply is now controlled with Monsanto's GMO foods ---> population is controlled through shorter life span.
Pretty simple, really.
And the misery never stops... Stockton bankruptcy suit could (will) lead to the raiding of California's pension fund - CalPERS.
http://www.globaldeflationnews.com/stockton-bankruptcy-could-set-a-prece...