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Stunning Scenes From California's Central Valley Drought
No matter what you have read or seen so far on California’s historic Central Valley drought, you probably haven’t been touched by it as much as you will be by the following video from the New Yorker.
Terribly sad.
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Sad,very. Expect this to effect food prices big time. It is very fortunate for all of us who eat that America is looking at a bumper grain harvest to offset some of the high prices from this drought.
Prices under the pressure of changes in supply and demand can be a lot like a carnival ride. By this I mean fast and abrupt swings can take place and often we see prices go to unimaginable extremes. The market works best when at least one side of the equation remains somewhat stable. The article below looks at how wild things can get.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/02/inflation-can-effect-supply-and-demand.html
A family from Cali was just here yesterday looking to buy hay, HERE, IN EAST TEXAS. I have 30 acres I had bailed up recently. I seen these people, and I just told them they could have it, no charge... just come load it up. They came all the way from California to Texas to get hay... Christ.
You should have demanded they pay in 80% lowers from Ares something or other that the communists in CA keep trying to shut down and the Feds raided not too long ago to confiscate their customer list
Don't worry - Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and ISIS will offer 'aid' to California.
Umm. California is a desert.... Did you not read your geography books? All but the coast of California (Oregon, Washington State too) is semi-arid.
Has anyone else visited the deserts of Oregon and Washington State? That was a shock to me. You hear all of the stories of rain drizzle and nothing about the bleak fucking desert of those state. Unbelievable.
Things are really bad here in California. It's so bad that color videos come out in black and white.
California’s historic Central Valley drought...
I was born and raised No Cal. I’ve been living in the Central Valley over 30 years. Am I currently living in an "historic" drought? Maybe, but I doubt it. I drilled water wells in the San Ramon Valley out of high school in the mid 70's so suburban homeowners wouldn't lose their precious camellias, rhododendrons and azaleas. Water table was less than 100’ most places.
I imagine wells are bit deeper now but I still contend our problem is political rather than “natural” or “climate” driven. The corporate farms in the Central Valley are huge foreign owned conglomerates taking advantage of US laws and economic regulations allowing "foreign" ownership of not only real estate and harvests but the tools of production combined with Political Action Committee fueled lax border regulations allowing a virtual pillaging of this state’s natural resources.
The result is the lion’s share of the produce grown here to be shipped off to distant shores resulting in the local populace paying as much if not more for our locally grown produce as sold on the shelves of stores in Germany, Japan, (New York), and other multi-national countries scarfing up our land for pennies on the “dollar”.
Our Senators are guilty of being some of this nation’s greatest traitors in their encouraging of these foreign interests with the recent action of Nevada’s Harry Reid and the BLM fiasco in his state being exhibit “A”. Mr. Diane Feinstein is equally culpable imho. I’m not sure as to the overall fiscal / environmental impact “shepherders” have on the Californian economy as we are still a nation / state more interested in beef, pork and chicken, but I feel quite certain if California had kept pace with providing adequate surface water storage, (our last significant storage project was completed in the mid 1960’s), we would have more than adequate fresh water provisions for decades if not centuries to come.
Our problem has been and continues to be political.
Jmo.
These asshats saw their future way back in the late 60"s when allocation of the Colorado was determined to based on a wet cycle. Well the wet cycle has been over for awhile now.
Back in the 60's we had "truck" vegetable farming in every state in the union. Ridiculous selling of water under cost and cheap oil(gasoline,diesel) ended all those local farm operations.
Guess what? No one is going to pay tp truck celery across the freakin' continent anymore. Truch farming will go local once again, and S Cali can try to make a living growing grass for cows or some other dumbass idea.
@Boxed Merlot
What about loss to evaporation for surface storage?
@ Boxed Merlot:
With all due respect, was one of the best testimonials I read them.
You live there and described the situation.
Congratulations!
This is very important.
Bration there!
Alexandre.
:-)
Excellent point Merlot.
California is like the interior of Brazil:
1 Chickens eat corn and popcorn shit.
2 Here is another station in the year, Eutono - I'm in Hell - the translation is not legal.
3 Birds fly with only one wing, the other is to shake.
4 hens do not hatch, have normal delivery.
Link:
http://extra.globo.com/incoming/11210153-792-131/w448/calor-4.jpg
:-)
It's so hot that if someone treats me coldly, will be a favor!
Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!
:-)
So your wife must be hot too!
@ FredFlintstone:
In this heat, married 23 years, with 52 I 53 with her??, nor think of giving one.
Kkkkkkkkkkkkkk!
What means "giving one"? Are you saying you are 52 years old and she 53?
@ FredFlintstone:
I will be more explicit.
I'm 52 years old, my wife 53.
We've been married 23 years, she is my third marriage.
At least once a week tranza people, have sex, "gives a" fuck.
I tried to be as unobtrusive as possible here, but since you asked, the thing is blatantly explicit in the text above.
Need to draw?
I'll tell you something else.
Happiness in marriage is longevity in bed and understanding.
The lust of the idolatrous love ends in three years if you can "give" a week with his wife, it gets a great friendship, that's the secret of couples who are married for twenty, thirty, forty or fifty years.
hehe.
"Mother Nature is teaching us a Lesson" he says.
The question is "Do they know what the lesson is that She is trying to teach them?"
and "What have they learned?"
Do they even understand what their relationship with the landscape is?
Do they know what the carrying capacity of the land is?
Nature is just responding to the imbalance of the human collective. What humans have done to Her, She is now giving back to them.
Water will eventually return, once the Collective realigns itself with Her Natural Law(s).
Water has attempted to return many times, and without a doubt, it shifts directions.
But no, it's not HAARP, it must be Mother Nature's invisible hand, because that makes way more sense.
@ European American:
If I'm sorry but this comment is typical urbanóide.
People who are living in cities for generations.
I met students from eighth grade who did not know that milk was produced by cows, had never seen a cow.
I believe that if you give some shit in the world, only sobrarão old who know where to look for things to survive.
:-)
"I'm sorry but this comment is typical urbanoide"
Well I didn't write your comment, you did. Does that make you "urbanoide"? Beyond that, not sure what your point is or what you're trying to convey.
Regardless of your speech patterns, I haven't lived in a city for centuries. Off the Grid. Don't care too much for those on the grid. You on the grid?
PS when one off the grid, one tends to listen to the pulse of Nature, in the eternal Silence of the moment. Is that urbanoide enough for you?
the carrying capacity of the land would have been a helluva lot more had they not tilled all the topsoil away.
water never leaves, it just changes location.
the Fertile Crescent wasn't always a desert.
An urbanoide must have given you a thumbs down. Great point.
@ European American:
Yes, you are a urbanóide and no turning back what you said.
Essa é a percepção que tenho de você.
Your problem, not mine.
That is my perception, if you are European and likes to argue as those French philosophers fools who only talk, talk, talk and do not have anything handy, your problem.
Look coaching swimming, the Atlantic Ocean is vast, you need fitness to return home.
This side of the hemisphere does not lend to people who talk about grids.
Most south of the equator is very free.
No hard feelings.
@tip.e.canoe: Exactly right. Guys like John Jeavons focus on "growing soil", rather than strip-mining top soil away. Results show that healthy soils use ~70% to 90% less water for the same yield.
The reason is that plants extract nutrients from water. They will keep pumping water up and out (transpiration) until nutrient demands are met, not because they need the water itself. If soils are in poor condition, with bad nutrient balances, typically due to destroyed structure and disrupted microorganism populations, plants will just keep wasting water. Addition of industrial fertilisers does not prevent this very much.
Industrial farming techniques put short term $'s ahead of soil maintenance which ends up costing $'s in the long term.
http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org
Every single time a storm system approaches that might bring rain, it magically shifts directions away from California.
And yet no matter how many times you predict and point this out to people, they will never grasp the true reality of why this is happening.
The technology possessed by military and governments goes so far beyond what the sheeple can comprehend, it might as well be magic, therefore you're a lunatic if you "believe" it.
Not one mention how fracking dehydrated the biosphere
Everyone knew water was waaaay over allocated and continued expanding farming operations anyway, Northern Cali said we're gonna divert water to save a smelt and no more run off for you s calif.. This is the consequence. A normal climate cycle compounded by poor planning and politicians screaming the sky is falling in order to drum up support for a carbon tax we will all pay.
At some point we will do more than bitch
At some point we will do more than bitch.
Yes we will and it probably will be very ugly. And it's on the way.
I'm an old fart from South Central Wisconsin. Not long ago we didn't depend on California to provide fresh vegetables to our supermarkets all year.
We used to grow a shit-ton of vegetables around here. Sweet corn, green beans, and peas were commercial crops. At harvest time the local Libby's cannery would be going full blast.
There were lots of "family farms" of 80-200 acres. They all had big vegetable gardens where they also grew (in addition to sweet corn, snap beans, and peas) tomatoes, onions, carrots, potatoes, cauliflower, squash, beets, and cucumbers. At harvest time they'd put up hundreds of quart Mason jars to see them through the rest of the year. Many folks who lived in town had backyard vegetable gardens too, and did home canning every year.
Now we have fresh broccoli in the FoodFlood's produce department in February. If you can make it through the blizzards you can buy whatever produce you want, whenever you want. The refrigerated tractor-trailers roll in from California and pull up to the unloading docks every day. The family farms are consolidated into big agribusiness montrosities that grow nothing but field corn and soybeans.
How long will this continue?
Until it can't. But that day will come.
The trucks may be from California but a lot of that food is from Mexico, Chile, or yes even China.
The JIT processes that facilitate such processes are already having problems (at least in Australia). I just got back from shopping at Aldi to get some staples, and the refrigerated section was bare. The people who were hoping to purchase such items were left with blank looks on their faces. The staff just went about their ways ignoring customers while wearing the same blank looks. Confusion reigned. Amusing and horrifying at the same time.
Yet in my neck of the woods, there are quite a few who want to re localize at least some of the food production. Farmer's markets and coops are springing up, I can get local cheeses and now there's a restaurant that is located on the farm that produces most of its food that is very popular. Farmers in the northern part of the state are starting to grow a localized cultivar of wheat and I can go to the Bosque Baking Co. to get bread made with flour from that wheat. It's a bit pricey @$6/loaf, but you truly are paying for quality. It's bread that you can just rip a chunk off and eat it plain and enjoy it. Try that with Wonder Bread.
You could probably build a house using Wonder Bread for bricks, and it'd be just as good as any other modern house.
My only disagreement there is that you must first compress the wonder bread with your hands into brick shapes. If that was something that you omitted for convenience, then carry on.
I was in France just a month ago, and we enjoyed wonderful bread, baked hot and fresh, for just .7 Euro for a baguette at the grocery, 1.2 Euro if you wanted to buy it at a boulangerie. $6/loaf seems crazy to me.
40 years ago, my mom bought a bread machine, and we loved it, but had to give it up, as we found we were not saving money, but eating waaaaaay more bread.
Good bread has always been within reach, it's just that Wonder has bought so many grocery shelves, it seems the only choice at times.
It won't continue much longer. From my perspective, a LOT of shit ain't going to continue much longer. We are one humongous, ginormous PONZI scheme!
This site has turned into a mini ponzi! It's impossible to even visit without being totally BARRAGED by ads of all types and flavors. I guess that means it's successful...........but it also means it's becoming ZeroWalMart
Just get adblocker plugin for mozila or chrome, it gets rid of the pesky adds
It won't and it all amazes me how most Americans are completely ignorant about the history of food production in the US. Hell, even if you are over 35 or 40 you would remember going into a US supermarket and how limited certain types of fruit were doing the winter months in the northern US. You didn't walk into a supermarket and get fresh berries of any type from Chile or a host of other fruits.
I will preserve and preserve a lot. Tastes great and a good way to buy peaches, pears, apples, tomatoes, strawberries, blueberries etc in bulk and then have them all winter long.
Many of us are relearning the canning and growing gardens. Not too worry...there is a real beauty of putting up the jars. My tomatoes this year were things of beauty and we are still eating the ones that were picked green and tucked into boxes to ripen. What a joy.
O que os brasileiros pensavam da Califórnia na década de 1980 - garanto que a maioria voltou para o Brasil.
Garota eu vou para a Califórnia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNHBjMO-q2o
Garota eu vou pra Califórnia
Girl I'm going to California
Viver a vida sobre as ondas
Living life on the waves
Vou ser artista de cinema
I'll be a movie star
O meu destino é ser star
My destiny is to be a star
O vento beija meus cabelos
The wind kisses my hair
As ondas lambem minhas pernas
The waves lick my legs
O sol abraça o meu corpo
The sun hugs my body
Meu coração canta...feliz
My heart sings happy ...
Eu dou a volta, pulo o muro
I give back, leap over the wall
Mergulho no escuro
Diving in the dark
Sarto de banda
Sarto-band
Na Calirfórnia é diferente irmão
In Calirfórnia brother is different
É muito mais do que um sonho
It is much more than a dream
A vida passa lentamente
Life moves slowly
E a gente vai tão de repente
And we go so suddenly
Tão de repente que não sente
So suddenly I do not feel
Saudades do que já passou
Miss it already passed
Eu dou a volta, pulo o muro
I give back, leap over the wall
Mergulho no escuro
Diving in the dark
Sarto de banda
Sarto-band
Na minha vida ninguém manda não
In my life no one commands
Eu vou além desse sonho
I go beyond this dream
Garota eu vou pra... Califórnia
Girl I'll go ... California
Viver a vida sobre as ondas
Living life on the waves
Vou ser artista de cinema
I'll be a movie star
O meu destino é ser star
My destiny is to be a star
:-)
The Damn pop up ads on mobile devices are STUPID!! Can't even read!
Use Firefox and install Ghostery and Adblock Edge (it's a fork from the original). Then set the Adblock Edge preferences to include some extra blocking lists. Works fine for me on an Android device.
Thanks!
Oh please, what bulls***. As others have noted, just look all the f***ing golf courses and lawns and pools. Nobody cares, we can get plenty of produce cheap from S. America. Go to Vegas, Lake Mead nearly empty, pools are full, lawns are green, fountains going full blast. Phoenix, Tucson, LA...more houses, more golf courses, more of everything. Nobody cares about a drough, get over it. Stocks? Well of course, the market falls and it is headllines everywhere. Priorities folks, priorities!
We need to be clearer about who "nobody" is. But I think you got it right. "Nobody cares." It's Somebody that doesn't.
HAARP. Is tt problem
The biggest problem is the state/Feds holding all the reservoirs. That water is just sitting there. The central valley was built on irrigation...not vast amounts of rain.
Shhhhhhhhhhh!!!! ... the Californian Rubes have to be tricked into paying much higher Carbon & Water Taxes ... they'll rebel against paying new taxes if they know their water supply is being rigged.
Love it in black and white, makes it even MOAR dry
Kalifornia Dust Bowl.
Couldn't happened to a nicer group of folks pushing the Envronmental agenda and getting fucked by working against mother nature.
Reap what you sow.
Fuck you Soros troll. We are graduates of Tavistock. Always enjoy handing your ass on a silver plate.
Noone in the central valley is worried about water. lawns are being watered 24/7, lots of water flowing into gutters, water sprayed into the air to irrigate crops in the middle of the day.
we stopped at a rest area, i think on i-5. i t was hotter than hell and dry as a bone. as an experiment i poured the contents of a small bottle of water on the concrete not exposed to the sun. the entire bottle of water evaporated in the 10 minutes we stayed to eat lunch. during this time we saw open irrigation and huge crop watering rigs spraying water into the air. there is a lot of room for saving water and they have done nothing. screw them and their arrogance of man problems.
Just wait until they begin banning rain water collection. A 5,000 fine. This will keep the plantation workers from escaping.
Come on Obama get on it...we need a drought czar
Then cross off your list and move on to the next problem...
Makes me wonder how many big donors he has on his list and how many will be stuck without a fancy shmancy appointment with just a tax deductable receipt to show for their stupidity.
The _____ CZAR is a jobs program for the Tribe
Long Florida oranges.
Eh, maybe not so much.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/us/disease-threatens-floridas-citrus-i...
Dry from above and salty groundwater from below.
The entire world may end up starving, but at least the Delta Smelt will live on!
lol. fuck socal. the developemenrt of the entire southwest is a potential slowmotion human disaster. i traveled throughout the west in the early 80s and all the reservoirs were full. i went back in 2003 and all the reservoirs were dramatically lower. ten years later and now the area is faced with a catastrophic problem. they have had 30 years to fix thi problem and money said no. so fuck em. they knew it was going to happen a long time ago and did nothing.
as long as they move back east and not to hawaii. it is all good.
We've had droughts before and we'll have droughts again. We survived the dust bowl which made California's current drought look like a water park party.
I'll take some of the free food. Thankyou.
It's not free. Time in learning, time in planting, time in maintaining even a small garden, has a monetary value.
Organic is great but doing it immediately teaches you why industrial petro-ag is so needed in our world today.
I don't know what everybody's problem is, just go down to Whole Paycheck, they have plenty of produce.
I'll bet there are plenty of gorgeous green lawns in San Francisco.
You are correct that San Francisco is doing nothing to reduce usage. They tap into a resevoir in the mountains and could care less about the Central Valley. Well exept when they want to look concerned for farm workers that are hispanic (non-hispanic farm folks are rednecks). Water only concerns them when they want to look concerned for the smelt in the rivers (a transplated, non-native species). It is the poor part of california that has the smelt, so we watch our water flowing to the ocean.
California is a canary for the entire country; Under Clinton the doors were opened and we have "compassioned" ourselves into a third world status. California (state of my birth that I can no longer go to because I Don't Speak Spanish!) has been ceded to Mexico. This is a treasonous act of forfeiture by the United States politicos who destroy our land for temporary dollars from low wage workers.
Imagine this: reduce the population of California to where it would be without the mass immigration of the last 30 years (OVER 20 Million people just in California) and suddenly there's a lot more water to use for crops...duh!
And consider the ebola problem. Duncan, the first Dallas patient who flew in from Liberia, came here...ostensibly...to marry his "fiance." Liberia has 4.4 Million people. 1.2 MILLION Liberians have immigrated here in the last 30 years. This means that with "family reunification" immigration, theoretically Every Single Liberian has the Right to come to the US if family reunification is preeminent. And under "humanitarian" the Obomao will no doubt want to adopt a few Liberian children himself?
Time to stop all immigration, Cause if you've not heard, water is a problem all over the world. Too many people too little fresh water. Not one more immigrant. Save the country for our own children.
I'll bet you've never been to San Francisco, well maybe Fisherman's wharf. I hope BushMan scared the crap out of you.
If you knew anything about San Francisco, you'd know it's one of the most lawn-less places in the USA. The population density is very high, and there are no yards, let alone lawns, in most places. San Francisco is letting most of its parks go dry. Golden Gate Park is a tourist mecca, and parts of it are getting some water. I think you're going to have to look elsewhere for water villains. The truth is CA ag industry has grown past the average sustainable rainfall for the state. If you don't live in CA, you have probably benefited from low produce and protein prices because of CA's ag export engine. Ag is declining as this drought proceeds, and it could well get a lot worse. You may have to pay more. Boo-hoo.
Your ignorance does discredit to the mostly thinking folks here. Maybe you should do your homework before you raise your hand and flap your lips.
A San Francisco Resident
Why would I pay more when I can just grow my own? The chile is better out here anyway.
Time for California to mobilize its wealth and population and go invade Canada...lots of water up there.
Ya. come in January,
When the water is hard,
And easy to carry.
My ranch is in the Sierra's at 4000 feet. I have one of the few ponds with any water left, a 1/2 acre lake turned into a puddle of green-brown aglae and moss soup. My property as an artesian well that nobody in the area ever remembered running dry. It's dry. It's not just domesticated flora and fauna that are hurting. My giant ponderosa and jeffrey's pines are falling prey to bark beetles that kill the whole tree, eventually. The wildlife is out of whack. Mule deer that look haggard. Increased predators and bears moving from other elevations for food and water. The only thing we are growing lately is thorns and thistles. I'm blessed ot have a working well for drinking water and hygeine. It's humbling when God smacks you upside the face to remind you that you are just a frail creature.
Keep God out of this.
http://www.scpr.org/blogs/economy/2014/09/02/17232/is-bottled-water-taki...
Water companies, golf courses, green lawns 12 months a year, flower beds, they all continue as does new housing which has added a couple miles or more to even small town sizes.
Blame bad management.
...an ignorant greedy, me,me,me, creature. not to be taken personally. it's epidemic, endemic, whatever.
Um...YOU LIVE IN THE DESERT!
Semi-arid would be the description. The Sierra Nevadas provide the water to farm the land, underground water wells also.
The chemtrails over our heads are not something I remember ever before, 30 years now. What they are doing is a mystery to everyone, but one thing they are not doing is making it rain.
Dust is now an issue and the time when the high winds arrive with the winter rain storms and blow the top soil off Dust Bowl style...
One video I cannot find illustrated the clouds created by chemtrails moving into the high sierras and dissiminating a huge rain cloud.
War via weather is underway, some say, and I would tend to agree when you take everything taking place today and add it all up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ja4ti4HKs8 (Chemtrail Geoengineering San Luis Obispo)
Agricultural coalition addressing UN - attempting to halt chemtrails (to no avail)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5is16A8pfw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsYG5emdZp8
Published on Jul 23, 2014
http://GeoengineeringWatch.org
https://www.facebook.com/dane.wigingt...
The western US is under an all out climate engineering assault, California most of all. The Weather Makers can shut the hydrological cycle off from the once "golden state" for as long as they wish. Satellite images and NOAA maps shown in this presentation are shocking and revealing to say the least. Whatever one wishes to consider as the agenda of those in power, one conclusion is certain, the drought in California is a direct result of the ongoing climate engineering insanity. Weather warfare is now being waged on the American population.
You fucking nutcases crack me up. Instead of running around with your cell phone taking pictures of clouds try getting a fucking job!
Save that Stickleback fish and Carbon Tax every water user in California thru the roof!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
One would think that California's Congrssional delegation, accounting for more than 10% of the Congress, could get focused on this issue.
There is no simple short term solution to drought conditions like this. But, there are great minds and great ambitions in California, which could do something about it, if they had to.
Instead of making a luxury electric sports car, or mass transit for people who won't use it, or another "gee whiz" app for a social network, they could be working on de-salinization projects, water recycling projects (including sewage to be reused for agricultural purposes), and on capturing and transporting the portion of the annual rainfall that currently runs into the Pacific Ocean from the jungles of Panama. And, although it amounts to no more than spitting into a fire, close down swimming pools that don't use seawater and shut off the water hoses on all golf courses, recreational parks, basebll field, and football fields and pitches.
I have lived in places where, during the later stages of the annual dry season, water would be turned on for the odd days and turned off for the even days. Even though this would encourage hoarding on the days when the water was on, it reduced overall usage significantly, because there were physical limitations on how much water each household could store. It wasn't pleasant; but it worked.
I was involved with farmland near Bakersfield, CA in the 1980s and understand the concept of acreage with and without riparian rights on the Kern River or water supplied from that resource.
I was also involved with my parent's "Victory Garden" outside of Buffalo, NY after WWII and through the Korean War. The plain truth is that you can grow, preserve and can food almost anywhere. You just need seed, water, soil, a little fertilizer and a hoe.
I started my first big time garden in Vermont this year. I learned that pole beans will survive mild frosts and continue to produce into October. If people would stop believing that they can not feed themselves and start relying on their own efforts for their survival, corporate farming will have problems. Do yourselves a favor: start growing your own food in 2015.
Start in 2014. It's time to plant garlic!
Plant me some ice cream
Looking at the data from this conference (link below), water in the Sacramento area, for example, has stayed relatively stable over more than 100 years. What has changed is widespread agricultural use in the state (75% of the water is for ag) and the tremendous growth in the population. That's what is causing the problem
http://mountaincountieswater.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/WEST-Consultants-David-Curtis-A-Fresh-Look-at-Water-User-Environmental-Frictions.pdf
I just wanted to say to all my ZH friends. If you wish to escape from all of this disaster that has become our world for just a moment of time and to just be able to laugh because it's funny and for no other reason. Not Obama, not Putin, not Ebola, not ISIS, not anything other than its just fun.
Then go. Go now and immediately watch......Airplae the movie.
GO NOW AND..................LAUGH.
That is all.
why not just put your head farther up your a** and save the price of a ticket.
Fuck California. I was born there, and I would like to return there someday. First the liberal/communist scum that have infected the state must die. Birth, Growth, Peak, Decline.
I have cousins there. They want out, but are stuck due to financial reasons.
Just build some printing presses in California and print lots of money, then you can just buy more water.
Still haven't seen a timely and constant source of news on this topic.
my question is sheep ranching? i feel sorry for these guys, but economically sheep ranching isn't viable. and i am sure some of those orchards being removed were already past peak production, or the market has been driven lower by imports. the farmer plants the wrong crop, and no matter how much water he has, he loses money. then one farm gets plenty or rain and one a mile away gets none. southern california is already cutting back on water use. how about a documentary on turf growers going broke? some day a really good potus will say, lets quit fooling around with electric cars and go pro tractors and mars and figure out how to turn sea water into fresh water. a really smart president
If California was not a socialist hell hole private industry would make Desalinization plants dirt cheep!
Whats with the guy wasting his money on Diesel to pump water? Solar is well under $1 a watt now. WTF?
Chevy Chase from the Three Amigos scene is anyone with a swimming pool in Southern California.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHVpJGXZ21o
No need to worry, when all farms go bust Monsanto will step in and take over. Its all planned folks!
I lived in SoCal for 8 years, but I'll never live there again, and I don't find this 'terribly sad.' I find it terribly predictable. SoCal is an entitlement culture.....urbanites expect services without paying for them....ranchers and farmers in the Central Valley use water coming from snowmelt in Northern California. Well, if there is no snow, you live in a desert and are therefore SCREWED. If the State can't pay it's bills, you won't get free stuff forever. SIMPLE.
Also, if you are in SoCal when the SHTF, you are probably going to die. Frankly, I get a little nervous after a few days when I'm visiting old friends, so I'm never there for more than a week. I do miss the sailing, though!
4 legged sheep metaphoric for the 2 legged variety.
like one guy says mother nature teaching us a lesson. sorry mate we humans never take too well to 'lessons' unless, of course, there is a buck to be made in them. it's over. you can blame your chem trails, shitty water policy whatever. it's over and it's called the 'product of greed'. a common human aberration.
kid in show was worst part of that video. having to conserve even washing water + no pressure to actually wash is sad indeed.
http://www.growingpower.org
A MILLION pounds of food per year on a three acre farm.
Fuck corporate agriculture.
sad indeed...geo engineering and overuse make the land unuseable for the non-agrogiants and weyerhauser, monsanto et al. scoop up the dustbowl 2.0 acreage for centavos and subsequently open the taps.
a devilishly cunning play.
sad indeed...geo engineering and overuse make the land unuseable for the non-agrogiants and weyerhauser, monsanto et al. scoop up the dustbowl 2.0 acreage for centavos and subsequently open the taps.
a devilishly cunning play.
The message from the Kingdoms of Nature is that they don't support indusrialized farming, however much it may suit mankind.
Seems to be working very well outside of the desert. Deserts aren't farms.
Feds can't print water. At some point you just run out from over usage and poor planning.
Tell all those broke souther California farmers to be sure and pay their California carbon tax now and everything will be better by the weekend. Shiiittt!
KALIFORNIA HAD MORE WATER WHEN IT HAD MORE SMOG. BRING BACK THE COMBUTIBLE ENGINE AND GIT RID OF THE CATALYTIC CONVERTER
Nothing that can't be fixed by Zuckerberg hosting another hackathon right?
Social justice warriors don't need no stinkin' corporate farmers.
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_25459099/delta-smelt-9th-circuit-d...
Years and years of crazy crazy chemtrailing over Cali has contributed to this
The video is hogwash and was made to serve the interests of the global warming alarmists. I lived in the Central Valley for 22 years and the reality is far different than this sad piece represents. First, they talked to sheepherders. These guys live by moving from field to field leasing patches as they move around. They historically hurt when rain is below average.
As for the unemployed in Mendota? The town of 5,000 has had an unemployment rate of 50% for decades now. Yes it is full of hard working people with no work available but that has always been the case. It is full of undocumented workers who arrive to public assistance and free food.
Generations are growing up there on welfare. Not much different than many inner city communities around the state and country. Except here the resident want to work.
Drive through the Valley today and you see 1,000,000 acres of almonds and the largest dairies in the world. Yes, the lack of rain is a strain but for the most part it is business as usual.
Global warming will potentially end all life on Earth larger than a mouse.
That's not alarmism - that's fact.
Thankfully we now have Fukushima to worry about too so we should assume global warming will destroy us only if we survive Fukushima's poison and lose only the North Hemisphere of the entire planet for all the remaining time humans shall exist.
This is fact. None of this is alarmist.
What is the correct average global temperature?
Has it increased, decreased, or stayed the same over the past near two decades verus the GIGO predictive models?
we are supposed to feel sorry for a LIBTARD state that KNEW over 10 years ago of the coming problem and TOOK NO STEPS TO MITIGATE ..... like reverse osmosis .... saudi arabia can grow wheat in the desert... Kalifornication can t get out of its own way... electing moonbeam is proof they are INSANE.... ok so now where will the ILLEGALS they welcomed with open checkbooks go... La raza and crew... hey how about Ferguson....
Nice US analogy about sheep dying because their masters have lost control of the situation they created.
Fukushima has millions of gallons of water stored in tanks and has no idea what to do with it. Sure, it's SLIGHTLY radioactive but as anne coulter says, radiation is good for you. Maybe somebody could build a pipeline from Japan to CA?
If the drought doesn't decimate CA, the waves of radioactive water will take care of it. It's already destroying sea life up and down the west coast.
Long chap stick.
http://jumpingjackflashhypothesis.blogspot.nl/2012/02/jumping-jack-flash...
Amazing some think coastal erosion and retreat of ice is due to global cooling.
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Thawing_Permafrost_The_speed_of_coasta...
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2014/08/greenland-ice-loss-doubles-from-...