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NASA Scientist Warns "California Has One Year Of Water Left"
Authored by NASA Senior Water Scientist Jay Famiglietti, originally posted Op-Ed at The LA Times,
Given the historic low temperatures and snowfalls that pummeled the eastern U.S. this winter, it might be easy to overlook how devastating California's winter was as well.
As our “wet” season draws to a close, it is clear that the paltry rain and snowfall have done almost nothing to alleviate epic drought conditions. January was the driest in California since record-keeping began in 1895. Groundwater and snowpack levels are at all-time lows. We're not just up a creek without a paddle in California, we're losing the creek too.
Data from NASA satellites show that the total amount of water stored in the Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins — that is, all of the snow, river and reservoir water, water in soils and groundwater combined — was 34 million acre-feet below normal in 2014. That loss is nearly 1.5 times the capacity of Lake Mead, America's largest reservoir.
Statewide, we've been dropping more than 12 million acre-feet of total water yearly since 2011. Roughly two-thirds of these losses are attributable to groundwater pumping for agricultural irrigation in the Central Valley. Farmers have little choice but to pump more groundwater during droughts, especially when their surface water allocations have been slashed 80% to 100%. But these pumping rates are excessive and unsustainable. Wells are running dry. In some areas of the Central Valley, the land is sinking by one foot or more per year.
As difficult as it may be to face, the simple fact is that California is running out of water — and the problem started before our current drought. NASA data reveal that total water storage in California has been in steady decline since at least 2002, when satellite-based monitoring began, although groundwater depletion has been going on since the early 20th century.
Right now the state has only about one year of water supply left in its reservoirs, and our strategic backup supply, groundwater, is rapidly disappearing. 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.
In short, we have no paddle to navigate this crisis.
Several steps need be taken right now.
First, immediate mandatory water rationing should be authorized across all of the state's water sectors, from domestic and municipal through agricultural and industrial. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is already considering water rationing by the summer unless conditions improve. There is no need for the rest of the state to hesitate. The public is ready. A recent Field Poll showed that 94% of Californians surveyed believe that the drought is serious, and that one-third support mandatory rationing.
Second, the implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2014 should be accelerated. The law requires the formation of numerous, regional groundwater sustainability agencies by 2017. Then each agency must adopt a plan by 2022 and “achieve sustainability” 20 years after that. At that pace, it will be nearly 30 years before we even know what is working. By then, there may be no groundwater left to sustain.
Third, the state needs a task force of thought leaders that starts, right now, brainstorming to lay the groundwork for long-term water management strategies. Although several state task forces have been formed in response to the drought, none is focused on solving the long-term needs of a drought-prone, perennially water-stressed California.
Our state's water management is complex, but the technology and expertise exist to handle this harrowing future. It will require major changes in policy and infrastructure that could take decades to identify and act upon. Today, not tomorrow, is the time to begin.
Finally, the public must take ownership of this issue. This crisis belongs to all of us — not just to a handful of decision-makers. Water is our most important, commonly owned resource, but the public remains detached from discussions and decisions.
This process works just fine when water is in abundance. In times of crisis, however, we must demand that planning for California's water security be an honest, transparent and forward-looking process. Most important, we must make sure that there is in fact a plan.
Call me old-fashioned, but I'd like to live in a state that has a paddle so that it might also still have a creek.
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It's mixed w/ sea water and discharged back offshore
I live in Santa Barbara, on the coast. In 1991-92, they built a desalinzation plant, and due to rain and the public voting for state water, it was closed as soon as it was built. It has never operated. Now, they have plans to put it on-line in 2016, at which point they predict that monthly water bills for the average custumer will go up $20. Also, what will be the nation's largest desalinization plant is currently under construction in Carlsbad, CA, just north of San Diego. That's also supposed to go on-line in 2016. There's also a smaller desalinzation plant in Monterey County.
Don't forget that California's Central Valley is the world's most productive agricultural area, and is the primary source for many fruits, nuts, and vegetables in the US. The problem is that desalinized water is costly and energy intensive. That means food costs go up for everyone. Should we ever have an energy crisis again (like the 1970s), it might even be prohibitively expensive.
Which is a good argument for re-localizing a lot of agriculture.
I just dropped a few thousand to significantly expand my garden. Suggest everyone consider doing the same if you're able.
Learn how to save seed and build up a huge supply. IMO, don't worry about cultivar purity, Worry about what grows and what tastes good. Also plant perennials.
Damn, you should have went to the home depot parking lot vs paying union rates.
And have you ever heard of a tractor? I can double the size of mine in less than an hour with $5 worth of diesel.
In all seriousness, I spent $200 on my seeds for my garden last week. Decided to go all organic or heirloom this time so I could produce my own seeds for next year. Planted 20 new fruit trees this year already, 3 boxes of bees will he here in a month, fresh eggs daily. Hell I even purchased a 1980's "tankota" 4x4 to use here on the homestead a week or so back.
i thought DC was the primary source of fruits, nuts, and vegetables?
Only the rotten and spoiled ones...
"Should we ever have an energy crisis again (like the 1970s), it might even be prohibitively expensive."
Not if you power the desal with a nuke.
Actually, for desal you can use your dear wind mills and solar panels since you won't be hooking up to the "on demand" electrical grid.
And quit whining about water costs in California. You live in a fu.king desert!
+1 for the Sam Kinison reference.
As to wind and solar to power desal plants, do you really want having a drink or water dependent on whether it is cloudy? They ought to be powered by thorium molten salt nuclear reactors, as should absolutely everything else.
By the way, desal plants will address the water demand for residential and even industrial use to some extent, but the principal water users in California are ag, there's no way to make enough desal capacity to feed ag demand. $8 lettuce, coming to a grocery store near you.
"By the way, desal plants will address the water demand for residential and even industrial use to some extent, but the principal water users in California are ag, there's no way to make enough desal capacity to feed ag demand."
Good point. Most of our water for the Central Valley is runnoff from the Sierra Nevada mountain range. However, according to Wikipedia:
"The rivers of the Central Valley converge in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a complex network of marshy channels, distributaries and sloughs that wind around islands mainly used for agriculture. Here the freshwater of the rivers merges with tidewater, and eventually reach the Pacific Ocean after passing through Suisun Bay, San Pablo Bay, upper San Francisco Bay and finally the Golden Gate. Many of the islands now lie below sea level because of intensive agriculture, and have a high risk of flooding, which would cause salt water to rush back into the delta, especially when there is too little fresh water flowing in from the Valley."
About 80% of our fresh water in California is used for agriculture. If the drought continues we simply can't produce enough fresh water through desalination for the Central Valley, and as you point out.
Remember that the Eco-freaks cut off
the irrigation water to the Central Valley
farmers to save the "endangered" Delta
Smelt--a bait fish.
Karma is a real bitch...
Go back up and read the excellent post from Implied Violins above The smelt are being poisoned. The more poisoned they are, the fewer fish there are. IV says 22 smelt were found in the last Delta survey. The fewer fish reinforces the importance of moving water to the Delta. All a bit like the plot of China Town.
This new technology of using graphene coated sand may be key to solving the problem. Basically its like a britta filter except that it can remove salt as well as almost everything else from water. On top of that the video producer shows how to make it. https://youtu.be/NbbQfu_VaHk
Graphene is just another form of carbon. They could go low-tech and use "biochar," err, um, lump charcoal.
that is true but the surface area is far greater than regular activated carbon in graphene form. It is like comparing a basket balls surface area (regular carbon) to the basket ball court's surface area (graphene).
Lump charcoal or biochar or whatever you want to call it is free though. It takes work, but you can just take farm waste, put it into a hole in the ground, get it burning nice and hot, then bury it before it is done burning. Terra Preta.
I agree that Bio-char is a great material especially for revitalizing fields that have been destroyed by excessive farming. It acts as a nitrogen storage battery in the soil. It provides many little nooks and cranies for fungi to take hold and is pretty easy to produce. But as far as desalinization is concerned it won't filter out salt. Graphene will and is not all that difficult to produce anymore. Plenty of people are producing it in their garages and shops these days. Watch some of the video authors other vids, they are well produced as far as content goes and very informative. Organic material must be heated and not exposed to oxegen if you want good results to produce bio-char. You want the material to go through a gasification process that gasifies the combustible material (syngas) and leaves the carbon. Interestingly you can filter the gas and run a regular gasoline engine with very very little modification.
While not as efficient when measured by cords of wood to lbs of charcoal as using something like a retort, burying a fire before it is done burning does produce charcoal. Like I say, it is low tech, and if you already have the organic waste, such as crop residue, it is free except for the work that needs to go into it.
Very good points above imho. Another suggestion would be to switch crops to Industrial Hemp. Probably 25% of the water needed to grow rice for example with huge demand potential in the pulp and fiber markets immediately..
Another suggestion would be to look up in the sky and see what's going on, but I guess that's just a little too obvious.
It is the surface area property that is key to the amazing properties that graphene has for water filtration as well as its use in capacitors giving them almost the power density of Lithium batteries but a graphene battery can be charged in seconds where a Lithium battery would take hours. The hot material now is making phosphate into single layer (1 atom thick) nano layers. The cool thing about Phosphene is that it acts like a semiconductor so it's conductivity can be switched on and off at will, that is a big time useful property.
Phosgene? I hope your badge doesn't turn pink (for those who have ever worked in a real phosgene plant)...
Anyways, what's the cost to regenerate said Graphene? That is the kicker. Filter guys are coming up with better and cheaper filter technology every day. It will be interestign to see how this tech could compete in only desalination. Now if you want to mention true purification, then that may be a different story.
BTW, I caught this via the LA Times this morning and noted then to some of my mates, that this is the first meaningful comment on the drought that's come out of any major CA Printed MS News Media this year. You see, there has been just enough rain that the hills and freeway medians are green from what rain we've had. In the big cities like LA they get water diverted through the aqueduct system and thus don;t have a clue. So the popular perception is "What drought?" As I'd mentioned just the other day, many farmers in the CV are getting notified of their water allotments in the areas where such takes place. (Some CV areas such as much of Tulare county have plenty of water, but that is by and large an exception) Meaning that crops are going to be smaller than usual this year. (Another example is many almond growers are forgoing their trees. Can by almond firewood real cheap this year.) Just sayin', watch out for AG prices going up big later this year.
CA is one of the largest AG producers in the US. Short crops here will hit everybody. Mostly to be noticed the further away you get from production.
The Neighbors
Now is a great time to buy
Nar
Desal plants are being built, and they're more cost effective than previously, problem solved
Time for Texas to build the fence on our western border before the granola gang starts invading....
No shit.
Hey, Californians: NM is a desert. Don't fucking move here. We don't have extra water either.
Same with Texas.
Stay away (and to the ones who are here already, you've outstayed your welcome. Go home).
Yup, and other than frequent ribbing, the biggest issue of contention between NM and TX is water. I've not verified this, but rumor has it that when the water agreements were struck, TX politicians got NM politicians drunk before they signed the deal, and we got fucked. Whether true or not, it is something that I could see happening.
As a graduate of Texas A&M and a proud Aggie I'd say that it sounds quite possible and the Russians have used the same technique to great effect.....
I'm not sure but it wouldn't surprise me. Don't forget Texas was home to Kenny Lay and the rest of the Enron boys... who successfully ripped off the West Coast for years on their electricity prices.
Time for Texas to build a complete boarder fence around us.
Then post signs at the 4 gates that say.......
NO HOPE......IT's CHAINED !!!!!!!!!
chained... my wifes parents neighborhood is so poor, that the gypsies that live on the street steel all the chain link fencing surrounding the lots of the bulldozed homes. but hey, were all sunny days, palm trees, and fucking movie stars over here!
Oh, the pointed humor....
HOPE! HOPE and CHANGE !!!!!!!!
Story goes like this....
The Bright Shining Intellectual Lights that populate the Texas Legislature ("The Lege" h/t to Molie Ivins) decided just that....that Texas needed a fence around the Whole Damn State to keep "The Undesirables" out. Texas being Texas, the effort was privatized and launched with a PRayer to Jesus, and Generous Free Will Love Donations were solicited from the fawning, drawling Texans.
As it turned out, most of the Donations came from OUTSIDE Texas, donated by People of Good Will (and 3 digits in their IQs) who wanted The Fence built, not to keep 'Undesirables" out, but to keep The Texans INSIDE Texas.
Can we strong some electric wire on the top of the fence for the 30% of Texans who can't "write or cipher"?
TEXAS! Jesus' Favorite State! ©
Who was the author to your post?
Was it, Over Population in Cackifornia, written by, We Fuc Em Young?
I'll drink to that!
That brings up an interesting philosophical question, Carl:
Do Liberals weed their yards?
[Maybe they don't really believe in diversity after all...]
Mexicans do it for them, silly.
Good thing the have a huge budget surplus (as opposed to squandering their money on high-speed rail boondoggles) and also have a very proactive approach towards building power plants and using them to power desalination plants. Because sometimes totally unexpected droughts suddenly appear one year, with no warning whatsoever, so it's nice to be able to respond at a moment's notice. I mean, it's not like California has been having water troubles for decades, or anything.
not a chance....saving water is for the peasants
That's right. It's so dire that all of the golf courses are green, the fountains are flowing and the swimming pools are full. What a steaming pile of horseshit! I'll feel bad for them when showers are restricted to every other day and the grass is all dead. Until then, suck a dick!
Don't forget the plethora of bottled water companies like Nestle sucking CA creeks and springs dry:
http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/2015/03/05/bottling-water-california...
Dear Californians. .
Michigan has the most water, as it is near the Great Lakes..
It also has lots of gangs, immigrants, and abandoned land and wear houses to start a cottage So Cal style chop shop of your liking.
It has ever thing else if you just close you eyes, wish upon a star, and call U-Haul.
And please stay out of Oregon!
Tenneseans have Zero need for libtard, commie socialists from California either. Don't even think about it.
Oregon has tried to help off-set the water shortage for years. It's the Liberal Technocrat Enviro Tards who have slammed the door, each and every time.
"Oh, how times have changed. With Oregon now leading the way in green power exports with the proposed Shepherds’ Flat Wind Farm, many around the state see the opportunity to export water as the next logical export. Raymond Branxton, a leading proponent of the plan to export water, said recently, “Why wouldn’t we do this? Our state is one of the worst in the entire nation in unemployment and in shortages of state revenue. This extra water, and there is extra, believe me, is like gold or oil. Billions of dollars are at stake. And every single hour we simply watch as over six billion gallons of water goes by, untapped, and empties into the vast Pacific Ocean. I say tap it and tap it now. I am talking with government officials on a regular basis.”
It is estimated that Oregon could supply California with approximately 8 billion gallons of water each day without any deleterious effect on either the environment or shipping. That amount of water could easily end, forever, the shortages that have plagued Southern California for decades. At the same time, jobs and revenue would flow into Oregon in numbers never seen before. It is estimated that at least 7,000 new temporary jobs would be created to construct the pipe and that 125 permanent jobs would be created in maintaining the pipe and pumps needed to supply the water. Revenue for this water, at current California rates, could easily top six million dollars per day or more. “That is over two billion dollars of revenue per year for Oregon for something that costs Oregon nothing,” noted Branxton.
“How anyone could oppose this in times like these is a mystery to me,” exclaimed Branxton at a recent secret meeting to discuss water export. “The pipe can go right next to the power lines and we can run the pumps with the wind power. It is simply amazing to me that we have not moved forward on this much sooner. Goldschmidt is long gone — maybe our next governor will have the foresight to put this much-needed plan into place,” Branxton predicted."
http://oregoncatalyst.com/2885-Columbia-River-Water-Next-Export-to-Calif...
"Don't Californicate Oregon" is a popular lawn sign in OR.
OR and WA need the water for own use and preservation on its natural habitat. Let CA solve its own problems... That which cannot be sustained, should not be.
Why on earth would you want to encourage Californians to remain in that desert state? Oh, you mean to destroy them financially. Water blackmail and keep them from moving to Oregon. Good idea.
Much too late for Oregon.
But nobody needs MORE Californians.
I'm staying Texan in California.
Liberals already destroyed Michigan, there's nothing left.
Nothing left? What about all the Muslims in Detroit?
Sand people will put up with pretty bad conditions.
The Lakes! The lakes! And if there's nothing else left, then that's even better...nothing to stand in the way of starting over.
and how many liberal silicon valley or hollywood types will stop flying thier private jets?
Again, perhaps the state would have more water for its residents if it wasn't for the rabid environmental movement that has diverted billions of gallons of fresh water into the pacific ocean in an effort to support the poor little Delta Smelt.
Or maybe California has reached its carrying capacity. No need to take the fish down with us. It is insanity. But surely our cleverness will save us from our cleverness.
fukit..... let them dry up and blow away... karma justice for electing progressive liberal democrap liberals and the fudgepacker....
This guy must not have been paying attention when Ted Cruz told NASA to stick to exploring space.
I'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... www.globe-report.com
You can always count on the LA Slimes to promote the govt takeover of everything. But remember, while Calif is in a drought, it fuckin rains every year and we get new water. So saying we only have a year's worth of water is stupid.
glad to know NASA- a space agency, is using its funding and man hours to premote political agendas.
The article was so lame I expected a </sarc> tag at the end of it.
I have a better solution: give California, from San Francisco south, to Mexico.
I don't get how this supports NASA's muslim outreach objective. Someone please explain.
BAAAAHAHAHAAHA
fucking space monkies!!!!!!! LOLOLOL
Simple: no jooooss on space.
/sarc
After they've landed us on the moon, what do you expect them to do with their prowess?
Let me guess....if we just let them tax us some more, they can fix it. Of course, those taxes will all be moved and spent on supporting the CA welfare state ponzi and zero will be done to build anything having to do with water.
no worries
we will all be issued our own personal H20 snap cards. swipe that fucker before you take a shower.
Attn: Komrade Kalifornians: Personal showers are hereby limited to 2 minutes every other day.
Personal shower procedures:
1. Enter shower - turn on water for 20 seconds then shut off water
2. Shampoo and lather
3. Rinse for 100 seconds
Failure to adhere to this policy will result in your water being cut-off permanently. Zero Tolerance in effect.
We will be monitoring you.
Green Libtard Kalifornia Kongress
Sheryl Crow has helpful suggestions as well,
"I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting. Now, I don't want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required."
ironically her music gives me explosive diarhea. shit it gave lance armstrong ball cancer.
pretty sure it gave him 2x cancer
That might be fine for that bird ass but that bitch has never seen me shit. I practically need a bath towel.
yeah that pretty much sums it up! the digital wireless gas meters are already being put into place, no joke. it all seems so benign at first.
"...was 34 million acre-feet below normal in 2014. "
Ok I'm pretty good at thinking about volumes and such but acre-feet?
Be glad you don't have to think in slug-inches ("slinches") like dem NASA boys.
Moar like slug inch/sec^2 makes moar sense.
A dozen gives you a pound, not a poundal.
can someone please convert this to drams?
Transmutate away to your heart's content. Can do some really neat calcs here. I mean Impressively Neat.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
It's about a trillion and a half cubic feet of water.
Below normal.
Yeah, now IS a good time to bring this up...
Getting closer to Frank Herbert's Dune in California. "Water is Life, Life is Water". Mind you the lack of freshwater means lack of fresh produce, means price increases no matter if money printing happens more or not.
OMG the sandworms will eat all the hippies and illegals!
Now is the time for designer still suits.
A fashion-forward movement just in time
for the uber-elite.
Oh my gosh. How did people survive before California. Guess I'll have to grow my own food now. Canning? what's that?
If you've never heard of acre-feet you know nothing about water.
How many Hectares we talking bout here?
"She'll go three hundred hectares on a single tank of kerosene."
"Put it in H!!!"
http://www.dula.tv/watch.php?file=homer-buys-car-from-crazy-vaclavs.flv
One acre of land filled to a depth of one foot. 43,560 cubic feet. 325,851 US gallons. Or try this, a farmer might need somewhere around 2 feet per acre to raise a crop. (less for wheat, more for potatoes, but an average amount) so 34 million acre feet of water is enough to irrigate roughly 17 million acres for one season.
I found this posted on the web, so I know it is accurate: Califonia has 100 million acres, 43 million for agriculture, 16 million for grazing, and 27 million for cropland, 9 million of irrigated land.
In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it.
Whereas in the American system, the answer to “How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?” is “Go fuck yourself,” because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.
So, if they switch to "millimeter acres," the problem is solved. There are billions of them!
Just like USG accounting!
The metric system makes a lot of sense. However, using it in everyday layman's contexts just makes one sound like a pretentious douchebag.
We built Mach 3 airplanes in the '60s.
Using slide rules.
Go fuck yourself.
1 acre foot is about 326,000 US gallons this is a huge amount of water
it's a pretty common way of measuring water.
Would you prefer gallons? There's a lot of gallons in an acre-foot. There's also a lot of Cubic Feet.
It's a way of making the numbers manageable. they should probably do the same thing with the national debt. make it something like 390 Acre-millions. that sounds much less scary than 17 trillion.
Perhaps the US debt should be reported that way ?
Probably need to do it in square leagues /a fathom deep to keep it manageable.
I love common core math. Old math is
so yesterday...
Think of an acre size of land one foot deep. 43,560 square cubic feet of water. 325,828 gallons and for our metric friends 1,233,262 liters. I am NOT a math guy but I stayed in a Holliday Inn one time.
That's the area of an acre, covered with a foot of water. 325,851.43 gallons. So 34,000,000 of those. Or, if you prefer, a mega fuck-ton.
Acre feet is farily common measurement for agriculture. It makes sense when you consider that farmers often measure their land holdings in acres and they pay attention to how many feet of water go onto their land. It doesn't make sense to those of us who still think in gallons or cubic meters or whatever. 1 acre foot = 43560 cubic feet.
Lost my dock and Jon boat from the floods here. Wish we could have sent our extra water there
I lost my gold and guns in that same flood. Fuck'n shame.
We were just hearing about all the floods in California for fucks sakes.
Someone doesn't realize how big California is.
You can drink flood waters? You first.
You could if you trapped it and then treated it. But we need a high speed rail to San fran more than we need water/
You need a $2 billion football stadium in Los Angeles even moreso.
Actually any professional ball team would calm the masses.
The Trojans are a bit tired of carrying all the water.
(snigger)
Silly me--I thought the high speed rail
boondoggle was for Moonbeam's Mexican
Outreach Program. But, that would make me
racis or something.
Let them drink tequila?
and they thought their gasoline was expensive.
I used to live in CT. Our fuel oil bills there for heating were like our water bills here in CA.
Noiw for a real ball buster for y'all.
Fresno CA, in the middle of the CV has no water meters in most areas. Flat charge a month.
Go figure
Urban Myth.
(no one believes that out East Mr. knuckles)
Liked having Tomatoes and roses in bloom year round, Millerton Lake and antiques on Olive Ave, but that was pretty much it.
Not a bad list though, despite all the californians that lived there.
I have the perfect idea! Import another 5 million illegals. Looks like they already thought of that though.
They should change their underwear.
Fortunately they live on the edge of the Pacific. Time to get a bunch of desalinization plants built. Goodby to watering your lawn, forever.
I recall that years ago there was a saltwater tolerant grass under development for one of the gulf coast football stadiums, IIRC. Seems like the answer to all of this would to have parallel systems of water distribution, and switch all grassy areas over to that strain of grass.
Including golf courses.
desalination plants are coming to a shore near you. radioactive ocean water should brighten everyone up.
You better hope they can build these things fast enough. And that the price of oil doesn't virtually ever return closer or above 100 dollars a barrel. Good luck with that not happening. If the EROEI to run that plant becomes cumbersome and the fee to pay for delsalinated water obscene, what may seem like a good idea will waste time in what is really needed, reduced consumption.
several countries, notably in the mid east, use huge desalination plants with enough efficiency to make sense. of course, not having water makes having 10 cents/gal water cheap.
you know how this will work. industrial water will have priority and subsidized by the lawn watering proles. ofuros(saved bath water), recycled grey water and cutoff valves will be real popular.
you know how this will work...
How this will work is the Feds will steal water from states with surplus resources and send it to Kalifornia while charging everyone in the country higher taxes to pay for transportation/purification/bottling etc.etc. etc. Kicker: Then Kali Kongress will approve new law adding extra taxation to Kalifornians for the service...Typical libtard procedures.
So glad I don't live there...
God damn it. Just when ice hockey was getting popular in California.
I'm sure that the IMF will lend NASA their hockey stick. Problem solved.
If not Al Fuckwit Gore can lend them his.
Scientists get paid to produce facts based on who pays them and who they can solicite money from. You would do better to get out the Farmer's Almanac or just ask the guy standing out front of the 7/11.
"modern science" just like modern economics.
Climatologists give Science a bad name.
Exploitation is the name of the game today.
Spin the Wheel again and buy a Vowel.
Scientists. Bah! Jesus will take care of this. Just pray to the Lord, keep consuming vast quantitites of H2O, keep multiplying needlessly, and BTFD.
No need to bother Jesus with all this. He's a busy guy. Make a snide remark about California Limousine Liberals, with an obligatory mention of Al Gore, and knuckle drag yourself on down the road. All is good.
So what's the real threats facing the state and the country for that matter?
Hint: It sure as hell isnt terrorism or Putin or ISIS.
Venezuela
HRC.
calling Al Gore, calling Al Gore, come in Al Gore
He TRIED to warn us, but we wouldn't LISTEN!! What's next- ManBearPig!?! AL!! Can you leave the beach house in Malibu, jump in your G-3 and fly over here to make it all better??
The world is full of the remains of civilisations that disappeared when the climate changed.
Future historians will argue this issue to death when they dig up the everlasting remains of Kardashian's ass.
Trying to determine if this can truly be classifed a "civilisation"
everyone in the west will soon have to move to canada or central and south american rain forests. please don't move back east. stop at the mississippi. there's plenty of water there.
We think the same about you, amigo. Stick to your own screwed up states and stay out of ours. And we'll be glad to reciprocate. Ain't none of us fleeing to Ohio and New Jersey after turning our own place into dangerous, unlivable shitholes ruled by totalitarian scum.
Yes. The entire Anasazi civilization. You can still see their cliff dwellings in SW CO.
"The world is full of the remains of civilisations that disappeared when the climate changed."
And the change could no longer support the exponential Growth of the civilization's need for Resources and Waste Disposal.
Rather than mitigate the foreseeable crisis, TPTB of each civilization chose to maximize their wealth and lifestyle by preserving the Status Quo. Until the sudden and complete collapse came.
History teaches us that Man learns little from history, but some individuals and clans or tribes do. Plan accordingly.
There's going to be a lot of thirsty hipsters in SF. Unless they start partitioning California into zones that get water and zones that don't.
Might have to shut down the bathhouses and double down on swallowing each other's fluids.
This is funny, like the passengers of a rowboat debating the formation of a 'waterfall impact mitigation committee' as their rowboat plummets over Niagara Falls.
Desal plants sound like a great idea ? Do they remove the fukushima Radation Also? Scientists are baffeled???
January was the driest in California since record-keeping began in 1895.
Why did he not mention December 2014 was the wettest since I don't know how many years?
Because one really wet month doesn't even come close to offsetting years and years of drought.
Dumbfuck.
Don't hold back- Let it all out there, Lil' Miss Sunshine!
I love the solutions; MANDATORY water rationing (use state violence to decide who gets water and who doesn't. and the creation/acceleration of committees/agencies and boards. WTF?????
Since when does a committee accomplishes anything but spending money and blowing each others wands?
Want some real solutions? PRIVATIZE the water supply. Quit allocating water by committee to the "friends of the government". Let everyone pay MARKET rates for the water they consume. Sure. that will bankrupt California farmers who will need to raise prices to realistic market levels, automate systems and change the farming paradigm to one that does not require trillions of acre-inches of water a year to grow tomatoes.
Stop the stupid environmental jerk-off studies and sub-studies and allow PRIVATE desalination plants to be built. These plants could then sell water to Californians at MARKET rates.
Jeebus STUPID, is not that hard!
Maybe we could resurrect Enron to do for California's water what they did for California's electricity.