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For First Time In History, California Governor Orders Mandatory Water Cuts Amid "Unprecedented, Dangerous Situation"
Amid the "cruelest winter ever," with the lowest snowpack on record, and with 98.11% of the state currently in drouight conditions, California Governor Jerry Brown orders mandatory water cuts in California for the first time in history...
Lowest snowpack on record...
98.11% Drought...
And finally some action...
Gov. Jerry Brown orders mandatory water cuts in California after snowpack shrinks to record low http://t.co/Wdy2SYFV0V
— WSJ Breaking News (@WSJbreakingnews) April 1, 2015
As ABC reports,
California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced a set of mandatory water conservation measures today, as the state continues to struggle with a prolonged drought that has lasted for more than four years.
"Today we are standing on dry grass where there should be five feet of snow," Brown said in a statement after visiting a manual snow survey in the Sierra Nevadas. "This historic drought demands unprecedented action."
For the first time in the state's history, the governor has directed the State Water Resources Control Board to implement mandatory water reductions across California, in an effort to reduce water usage by 25 percent. The measures include replacing 50 million square feet of lawns throughout the state with drought-tolerant landscaping, banning the watering of grass on public street medians, requiring agricultural water users to report their water use to state regulators, and requiring large landscapes such as campuses, golf courses and cemeteries to make significant cuts in water use.
The governor’s announcement comes just a few weeks after NASA’s top water scientist, Jay Famiglietti, declared in a Los Angeles Times op-ed that California only had a year's-worth of water supply left in its reservoirs.
The last four years have been the driest in California’s recorded history. As of March 24, more than 98 percent of California is suffering from abnormally dry conditions, with 41.1 percent in an exceptional drought, according the U.S. Drought Monitor, which estimates that more than 37 million Californians have been affected by the drought. The state’s snowpack, which is largely responsible for feeding the state’s reservoirs, has been reduced to 8 percent of its historical average, and in some areas in the Central Valley the land is sinking a foot a year because of over-pumping of groundwater for agriculture.
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“We are in an unprecedented, very serious situation,” the governor said in his January statement. “At some point, we have to learn to live with nature, we have to get on nature’s side and not abuse the resources that we have.”
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And as we noted previously, while all eyes are focused on dry river beds and fields of dust, the maountainous ski resort areas are seing their economies devastated. As Bloomberg reports,
Last year Vail reported a 28 percent drop in skier visits at its California resorts, and the company warned investors that its financial results would be worse than anticipated.
Those numbers reflect what could be a larger contraction of Tahoe’s ski industry. Seasonal and part-time hiring has slid 27 percent over the last three years, according Patrick Tierney, a professor of recreation, parks, and tourism at San Francisco State University, and spending on ski-related services has decreased from $717 million a year to $428 million. An older analysis by the San Francisco Reserve Bank showed that the value of resort-area homes in places like Tahoe can depend heavily on climate; even a 2-degree increase could cut home values by more than 50 percent.
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The drought is getting worse... not better.
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I'd bet the Chicanos will still be washing their low riders on the front lawn with a garden hose and letting it run while they scrub.
Well they don;t have to obey the laws where I live. The local blue heroes just let them go for a variety of offenses that would land a citizen in deep shit.
Primary Water bitchez. Just drill for it.
Lake Tahoe to the rescue - dibbs on the pipeline!
Lake Tahoe to the rescue...
Sorry, Tahoe flows (Truckee River) to the north and then east, right through Reno.
This article is behind the times....The snowpack for April 1st is at this link below where dozens of stations in the sierras check and report...It is only 5% of average which is much lower than the chart above shows. It is now in the 50+ temperature range in the high sierras..The average will be 0% by end of the week...and here is another link that shows NASA satellite groundwater, which you may have already seen. Check it out!
http://www.cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/snow/DLYSWEQ
and
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-california-drought-g...
Bittersweet that Cali's JPL/NASA just finished setting up their soil moisture satellite (SMAP) a few days ago and is getting to work. Some Tweet should ask them how long it'll be before they have Cali gathered up into their publicly available data products...
http://smap.jpl.nasa.gov/data/
So fron 2 to 1 inches overnight, but no change in the %?
Looks like they are learning from the BoL stat guys ....
confusing yes, but look at look at "central": ave SWEQ goes from 2" .... to .... 2" yet the % of April 1st average goes up from 5% to 6%.
So there is some 'splainin' required. But the overall pattern showing in the data? NOT GOOD.
The dream of suburban utopia is dead. Just because it's dying a little early in California, for nature-related reasons, doesn't mean it's not coughing a death rattle somewhere near you. All you flyover state residents are whistling past the graveyard.
I guess the down arrows haven't done too much research into the Ogallala aquifer's Depletion. From South Dakota to Texas....
"The sprawling Ogallala Aquifer in the Great Plains provides ... of use, farming in that area is likely to peak by 2040 or so due to water depletion."
Once depleted, the aquifer will take over 6,000 years to replenish naturally ...
"...the aquifer is slowly getting depleted, with the water table dropping by as much as two feet per year in some counties..."
Those pesky facts are just so negative. Why you got to be so rude?
Americans Idle is on dammit.
.
You can't handle the data? For everything else there's CHEMTRAILS!!!! (data not required, see dealer for details)
Now back to the show : )
...and yet...
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ramshackle-san-francisco-home-sells-for-12-million-2015-03-27
Lake Tahoe is soon to be called Lake Bed Tahoe.
.....on a water planet. Too fucking funny.
Long DESALINATION Plants.
Plenty of projects in the "pipeline", as indicated in my earlier posts...
Fri, 03/13/2015 - 13:44 | 5885868 Kirk2NCC1701
Long desalination* in CA. Have on fear, IDE Tech is here.
Short RE prices, as people migrate out of CA. Long RE prices in OR and WA, where water is still abundant, the climate is mild, but getting warmer and drier also (mountain snow packs melting at alarming rates after warm, dry winter).
* CA desal projects...
1. http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_25859513/nations-largest-ocean-des...
2a. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsbad_desalination_plant
2b. Israeli company (IDE Tech) building America's largest desalination plant in Carlsbad, California
http://www.haaretz.com/business/1.575985
2c. http://www.triplepundit.com/2015/01/largest-seawater-desalination-plant-...
Long Nuclear ('Nukular') Reactors to provide the energy for desal plants. So you might find the two co-located for practical and security purposes.
Note that I predicted this before on here, as it pertains to Saudi Arabia in response to a ZHer question "Why is KSA building nuclear reactors when they have so much oil?".
ALL countries with an arid climate and access to plenty of seawater will use nuclear+desal plants. E. .g. Iran, India, Pakistan, Israel.
What could possibly go wrong, good thing there are no active fault lines in the area...
do those de-sal plants remove the cesium ?
Cesium salts, yes.
Who the fuck will drink desal'd Fukushima water?
Maybe they can market it as water with a 'kick'.
Here's a great marketing suggestion: You can call this new beverage "Bone Seeker". That name would be perfect for a new energy drink with the target audience of young people.
Yummy, yummy! Fortified with the perfect blend of Strontium 89 / 90.
Guaranteed to mimic and displace all calcium and magnesium within your muscular/skeletal system. What a fucking RUSH, man!
Governor Moonbeam!! We've sighted ManBearPig! Call out ALGORE!!
they should stop growing rice in the desert
Idiot governor.
As long as he pushes the crazy train and does nothing about building a dozen more major desal plants, he is bucking for the historic level of idiocy. Why not, in the Obamanation. Why not, in Kalifornya, home of the Pelosi. Let's pass this drought to see what's in it.
I hope this leftist prog state turns into desert. Perhaps if they just taxed some more
90% of california's water use is for agriculture. None of these steps address that.
Good point. They waste SOOOOO much, with all the spray-irrigation, where a good fraction just evaporates in the dry air. They need to switch to drip-irrigation wherever possible. Rapidamente!
And why don't they put the USN to work and do something useful for a change... like hauling icebergs from Antarctica?
Wasteful as it may seem, it's less wasteful than what they're doing right now.
I wonder what's in those chemtrails. I know, need to put on my favorite tinfoil hat. BTW, I have several:)
Workday bed head for all. Serves em right, friggin libtards
Brown should make it a law that every illegal mexican bring 1 gallon of water with them - problem solved
I....can't...stop....laughing
They won't be coming to NH. You need a microscope to find the welfare teet here, thankfully. But knowing Owe-bomb-yah, Californians will get 'refugee' status when they start to flee.
chemtrails...
No April Fools: Propaganda circle complete, UK Prime Minister is related to Kim Kardashian
Government being nothing but a criminal syndicate of theft and violence can only produce four things: Poverty, misery, death, and lies.
The banksters need to repay us.
"Play the odds: Come to southern California and live in a desert with stolen water provided by government."
These "water cuts" are a joke. Ride around any Bay Area town or city. People soaking their lawns, golf course sprinklers going off night and day, you name it. I really don't see a serious effort happening at all. Some of the "rules" included not automatically serving water at restaurants and no watering lawns during rain...lol. Where I live there are four golf courses within walking distance of each other. Maybe you should start there. Oops, I forgot those are rich democrat campaign donors...my bad.
Rationing: "You sheeple need to use less of OUR water."
The banksters need to repay us.
SWAT raids on recalcitrant water users in 3..2..
"He pointed a flowing hose at an officer so we had to shoot him and the dog, and taze his crying toddler."
Yeah, the rationing is limiting individual freedom!
God market and individual greed solves problems, not authorities!
/s
Right, no republicans on golf courses ANYWHERE.
Moonbeams easy fix to this problem would be to raise taxes, fee, rates, etc... That's his standby solution for any other problem he may or may not encounter.
Did they save the Delta Smelt at least? That sure was impotent...er, I mean important, when O was elected the first time.
There's plenty of water gushing down from the sky and the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia. Instead of spending more and more on warfare perhaps the POTB should build a pipeline to California.
LADWP spreads over 300,000 ACRE FEET a year in the mono basin to mitigate a dust problem that's been in the geologic record for over 10,000 years.
Early reports are that there are long lines at Trader Joe's and Whole Foods markets all across the state and that shelves are being completely emptied of Perrier water, even at the going price of $100. a bottle.
Judgement. You can't just ignore God and his precepts and not expect the hammer. People love to talk about Jesus as the Lamb but don't realize he's also depicted as the Lion. Read the Book of Revelation sometime.
Read the IPCC AR5 this year. It's not likely you're gonna read it 25 years from now.
water wars bitchez
I drink your milkshake.
Nature's revenge for electing Pelosi.
I only drink water from Germany anyhow. We've had so much rain this year in CA the lawn is still green and we haven't even watered it. And, we have an ocean to swim if push comes to shove. Little salty but it works. Pulling water from Washington State as zerohead mentioned before is the best idea. On Q99X2 we use desalination devices that are solar powered but I'm not allowed to reveal that tech yet.
http://www.flores-solar-water.com/solution-en
Looks like Michigan without the fresh water and a few less mexicans..just a few less mind you..
What people have trouble to understand is that while the drought is real and severe in California, actual water crisis is a fake. Man-made by politicians, big land owners, Wall Street land speculators and predatory utilities in order to extort money, ask farmers from Central Valley and elsewhere.
Many people living in California do not realize that they are living in barren desert, dead if it was not for California public water system built over 100 years ago. Yes, 70% Californians live in harsh desert meaning drought is permanent and will not be mitigated by more rain. If water is scarce, which is not true at this point, it would be a failure of those who run it, because it is technically able to handle much worst.
The governor seems to be out of touch with some of utilities which recently, calling form calming down rhetoric causing panic among population by sending newsletter saying " Let's drop the drought drama.." trying to stop people from cutting even more on residential water usage since already most cut up to 50% while water parks and car washes are thriving.No water shortages.
Interesting take on the drought in California and how it is being used as cover for water rights manipulation and price gouging at:
https://sostratusworks.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/california-waterworld-of...
I was wondering when the "... They're Full of Shit... We Got Plenty of xxxxx, They just have to...." would show up and enlighten us.
Thanks for showing up right on time, Mr. 28 weeks
The San Joachin Valley used to be marsh land (all that run off from the Sierras) which is why it was chosen for agriculture - all them clever boys needed to do was redirect that water from going into swamps and onto manicured farms - which is largely what they did.
The problem is Inyo County and south to the border - real fucking desert.
Nice try. What is fake is thinking that the water shortage in Cali is the crisis. Let's take a poll.
Buy it bak from the phraquers.
Obviously they are mistaken. America is God's chosen country. Global climate change is nonsense. Water is our right, dammit!
So, these so-called scientist people are lying about water supply to advance their communist agenda! We obviously need to privatize the entire state. I suggest having Goldman handle the IPO.
That darn conservation of mass getting in the way of promised dreams of infinite water.....
I'm surprised the Moron Mr. Brown hasn't had the idea to put a tax surcharge on users at the state income level, so the bigger users will share a higher cost for H2-0.
if'n yo' saprised, den yo' i'brows be all arced up n' yo' i'balls wide open n' $hit...mo' tacksus ain' no good 'ceptin fo' up d'EBT...
Time to start pissing in the sink
we' thoisty, but we wud compleetlay blin'sided, ain' no'buddy couldah knowed it, wud compleetlee un'xpectahd...
I skied Mammoth that 82-83 season. The most epic, awesome snow of my lifetime.
Importing another 10 million Mexicans to water your lawns,and fill up your swimming pools,should fix this problem real quick,Mr Brown..
And God Said (take your pick):
"So, you don't like fundamentalist Christians? Let's see what you think of fundamentalist Muslims."
"How long can you tread sand?"
"Nothing wrong with tolerance, it's what you'll support that's pissing me off."
"What part of "Thou shalt not" don't you understand."
"When I had Moses write out a list of blessings and curses, I wasn't kidding."
"What Isaiah and Jerimiah wrote still apply."
"'Man-made global warming' is just as funny as 'man-made sun'."
"I can forgive you all day long, but it don't mean squat if you don't accept it."
"Yes, there are people born gay...just like people who are born handicapped and retarded. It's a fallen universe."
what's not to like about this?
Guess they should raise taxes and throw more people in jail.
Twenty foot diameter, Congressionally mandated pipeline from the Great Lakes to California (with a tap at Las Vegas) in 3....2....1
Gotta keep those donations flowing!
rsnoble: Guess they should raise taxes and throw more people in jail.
Bring another 10 million illegals in too. That'll fix things in a jiffy.
Roads, schools, housing, welfare…and now water. California’s problems are legion but one factor trumps them all – unrestricted immigration.
With a population that reached 38.5 million in December. Jerry’s Brown’s open border state is fast becoming the poster child for the death throes of socialism in America.
And even though net immigration accounts for 48% of California’s total population change since the year 2000, the governor of California continues to call for more “brown power.”
“Yeah, there’s a border, but there’s something bigger,” he said. And that’s the brown family.
After giving a jumbled history of Spanish and Mexican occupation in California before statehood, Brown said power always shifts, including in the United States. He was speaking at the 31st Annual National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Conference in June.
As more and more whites flee the state, Brown continues to call for massive wealth redistribution to immigrants, riffraff, the school system and the bureaucracy that services California’s growing brown population when he doesn’t have the tax base to support it. Nor the water.
And, now, as a result of the state’s tremendous burdens, several cities in California’s East Bay are increasing their sales tax to 10% on a dollar.
CBS SF reported yesterday in No Joke: April 1st Brings Double Digit Sales Tax To Several East Bay Towns:
OAKLAND -- As of Wednesday it is more expensive to shop in parts of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.
Buy something in Hayward and you’re going to get whacked with a 10% sales tax. Take a few steps outside the city limits and the tax is a half cent cheaper. …
If you buy a new $25,000 car in Albany, Hayward, El Cerrito, Union City or San Leandro you’ll pay $250 more in sales tax. …
Soon, sales tax could go even higher. There’s a bill in the legislature that would allow cities to add one percent to their sales tax.
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/03/31/no-joke-april-1st-brings-double-digit-sales-tax-to-several-east-bay-towns/
Would you want to buy a car in Hayward when you can go elsewhere? Or live in California, when you can go elsewhere? The maladjustments are kicking in.
JR, California prides itself on being a bastion of open borders illegal immigration. Every million new Mexicans who come over are cheered by the liberals, and by business. The liberals see new voters. The conservatives see cheap labor and more demand for business to sell into. Both are damn fools. Short term gain, for fucking up California. This drought has the potential to end the immigration dream world that California has become. No water, and then what?
If you start arresting the farmers that hire those illegal immigrants, the immigration problem will go down bigtime.
Illegals don't get s#!+ for services from the Cali state government - they actually get more services in Mexico than in the US. No welfare, no foodstamps, nothing. What they DO get here is paychecks.
I still remember the max year on your chart. 1982-3. Went skiing in Tahoe and the snow was so high that skiers on the highest lifts could almos rest their skis on top of it.
Powder was so deep that when people lost their skis they had to fish for them in the deep snow. Boulders were falling on the road on the way home to the Bay area. Later, there was flooding in Silicon Valley.
The human body is 98% water.Maybe Kalifornians can eliminate this problem,and save the enviroment,by recycling themselves into water faucets..
H20 contortionist.
How about a day where everyone takes the lead from Gov Moonbeam and meditates the state as flooding?!?
I don't understand the problem ... let them buy bottled water
Ok, this is not going to be a very popular opinion here, but here it comes anyways.
California you fucking retards, stop letting the fucking farmers piss away water growing shit in the desert. I don't really give a fuck about your so-called economy. They steal the water and attract fucking illegals who are then an even greater drain on the economy. A shitload of what is grown is just for export anyways, so who the fuck cares?
Furthermore, no, California going under will NOT cause food prices to skyrocket. Do you know what it costs to import food here in China? Not a whole lot more than US domestic stuff and our shit is actually GOOD. That's the truth of the matter, the barriers in place to protect agri push up the costs of imports, while they do their best to stay right under that line in order to ensure domestic has a few cents of advantage.
What I am in fact saying here, is that you can just fucking import all your shit and it'll basically cost nothing extra to have GOOD QUALITY meat and dairy from Australia. Rice from China is cheap and good enough for Japanese, why the fuck are you trying to grow your own in the fucking desert again? Veggies from China can and are done very safe for export, safe enough for most other countries... I see US supermarkets full of produce that is "proudly grown in the US", but it's overpriced and crap for quality compared to what it would be if they just fucking imported it from literally anywhere else.
Seriously, stupid fucking California, there's a reason I left it as quickly as I could after accidentally moving there. It's a state full of fucking retards.
Laomei,
I think you should cut back on the Chinese rice. Its the reason you ramble on in an incoherent manner.
Sounds more like "Fukushima" rice syndrome to me...
That syndrome would likely manifest itself as developing small nodules on your thyroid gland. Iodine 129 /131 has a strong affinity for developing thyroid tissue.
Where'd you get that goider, bro?
There are regions which are just fine, not polluted and well managed. Chinese were discovering that as they were discovering Japan recently. Going to Japan for holiday, buying up rice and other goods assuming it must be high quality (and with the exchange rate it's on sale!). Only to discover that it was all made in China anyways, even the high-end stuff they overpaid for. My message is: as long as you monitor the farming to ensure quality, it'll be fine.
Riiiiight. Like Chinese gov't officials monitor anything related to environmental or health standards.
The only thing they monitor is their bank accounts.
Don't even start with the 6000 dead pigs in the water supply situation. Ignore the school collapsing in an earthquake and killing all the children due to substandard construction. What financial whirlwind and overproduction crisis? China imports tons of Gerber baby food because the Chinese baby food is so wonderful? I'll trust millions of Chinese mothers' judgement and ignore internet trolls here trumpeting propoganda about the "Peoples'" Republic, which is another ironic, sick word joke.
Agreed, if you regulate for quality then the food should be acceptable by everyone. For a price.
Nice to hear that China is working on the quality perception.
McDonald's soybean burgers will suffer next quarterly gains.
When California quits farming that head of cabbage will cost 300% more.
Supply and demand.Demand gets crazy when the supply drpos.
" Veggies from China can and are done very safe for export, safe enough for most other countries..."
LOL. Here in Australia we have just had a major outbreak of Hepatitus B caused by frozen food imported from China - frozen rasberries contaminated with shit. Yes - actual shit. The cause of the contamination has been traced to appalling hygiene standards in the food production and processing facilities in China including rat infested storerooms and workers transmitting fecal matter to the food during picking and packing due to not washing their hands.
The public backlash against Chinese 'fecal berries' here has been huge with most consumers seeking out alternaitve frozen berries from the US or NZ. So good luck with closing down California fruit and vegatable production and relying on cheap Chinese imports.
Force them to conserve the water so the businesseses can use it up...
for crissakes, they live right next to an ocean - just bottle that shit - bottoms up!
In 2007 we here in Atlanta were about out of water. We had appx. 2-3 months on hand heading into the summer. Our main lakes around the city were about empty. Some like Allatoona were almost dry. We were told it would take years to ever get our lakes back to full pool. I thought I was going to have to move it was that serious. The rains came and within one year all lakes were completely Full. It was hard to believe. Maybe California will get a break.
FORE....Oh
Had dinner last night with my brother, a PHD in water resource management, spoken all over the world on the subject, and is an expert on water resource management, impact on the agricultural industry, heavy business users, etc., etc., etc. Basically the conclusion on dealing with the problem in California was the following:
- California simply uses too much water. Period. Even in normal years, California uses too much water so if for some reason better winters are realized over the next couple of years that provide the illusion that the water problem is under control, this is false. The bottomline is simple, the check has come due to the state for excessive water usage and the damage is severe.
- On the supply side, there are really only two options. First is to tap the north western part of the country and build a massive infrastruture project to move water from the north to the south. The figure he mentioned for this project was $1 trillion and decades of time, just to cover Southern California alone. So with a population of 25 million +/-, you're talking about $40k per person. Second is a massive investment in desalination facilities which he compared to the infrastructure in the UAE/Dubai area. He recently interviewed for a job in this region and understands the model well. Again, the cost to build Desal facilities will be huge and take decades to complete. The bottomline with the supply side of life is simple as he noted (correctly) that from a political and cost standpoint, moving water from north to south will be damn near impossible. So if you're going to solve the water problem in So. Cal., Desal facilities look to be the only reasonable long-term solution.
- On the demand side, there are really only two options. First is to cut average per-capita use by at least 25% annually at both the business and consumer levels. Heavy water users (think agriculture) will basically be forced to move or dramatically change their operating strategies. Second is to cut the population by at least 25% which needless to say would be an extremely difficult issue to manage on numerous fronts.
This event, which is just starting to playout on a regional, national, and global level is going to make any 50% reduction in the price of oil look like child's play. Every person and business in the Western United States is going to be impacted in some way, good or bad, positive or negative, it doesn't really matter. As my brother pointed out, there are going to be winners and losers with this event (which he refers to as Environmental Refugees) as there always are but to a scale that I don't think anyone can possibly understand. Forget growing nuts, avacodos, etc. in California and start thinking about what agricultural can grown in climates such as Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, etc. Entire food chains will change, all the way through the diets of people which will impact the health/medical industry. Also, just think about the impact on real estate prices in areas such as California as if residents have to cough up the money for new water sources, there are going to be some serious digestive problems and re-distribution of assets. Hell, there was even a recent article (ZH picked-up) that noted even a 2% increase in the average tempature in Mammoth could lead to a 50% decrease in real esate prices in the region.
So be prepared as there are going to be some real exciting and interesting opportunities over the years/decades to come as the Environmental Refugee migration really begins to take hold. Will people adapt/adjust, absolutely but will it come with a huge price-tag, no doubt about it! As much as the federal government and Wall Street hate to admit it, Mother Nature is now in control, like it or not. Unless of course you believe that damn Putin has a weather control machine that is causing all of this to occur. Either way, the cost of this event is going to be in the trillions of dollars.
Keeping the desert watered is a endless feat.
But infrastructure (such as desalinization plant, or aquaduct) could be placed on the books, and used as collateral to back debt - as well as protecting the real-estate assets currently in place.
50% drop in property values will trigger yet another financial crisis.
Forcing everybody in Palm Springs and LA to plant xeriscaping might convince a lot of them to move to a well-watered location. Say, Massachusetts. Golf courses are really green there, I've heard.
Agree with this analysis - the drought is not going away and will force major changes in this state and therefore elsewhere in the country. First, expect even higher prices on produce, dairy, wine, etc.. Mexico and Texas can't replace everything in just a month.
Rounding up all the illegal wetback parasites and sending them back to Mexico would be a good start! Or do we call them "drybacks" now?!?
Let them try to drain the Columbia river down to California.
Washingtonians, Oregonians, and Idahoans are some of the most armed people in the world per capita.
And we practice regularly.
Keep your fucking hands off our water, assholes.
Desalination is a complete solution for urban water, raise the prices a little and let the cutbacks take care of themselves. And it shouldn't take ten years, except for green wienies.
Solutions for agriculture are much tougher, importing water is if anything more expensive than desalination, and even shipping the desal water over the hills from the ocean to Central Valley is expensive, 10x to 50x what they were used to. Covering a couple of thousand square miles of agricultural land with greenhouses is probably the right solution, but it still requires that desal water.
No rational analysis allowed! This is global cooling / chemtrail town.
Kalifornia will have to adapt to drinking salt water from the ocean. Market as vitamin algae based nutrition drink. Shedding year's from your peasant shithole life.
hey, I know, LET'S BUILD A HIGH SPEED RAIL SUYSTEM AND HAVE A DRINK OF WATER
Why not chain link a multitude of hovercraft's together and call it a high speed train.
What about those leetches in Hollywood ! The "stars"...with their jacuzzies, big ass pools and luxuriant lawns and rare flower beds...huh?
Ya right, betcha there's a seperate water reserve for those fuckwads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7QlOTi86Nk&list=PL4Bf7kee0wmOnPRKzlbK6o...
John B. Wells interviewed Patrick Wood about these scenarios where big brother, in the form of a technocracy, will use just these type situations to monitor your showers, your energy use, etc.
It's a technocracy started by what is known today as the Trilateral Commission.
I was forwarded that youtube link last week and I can't stand that Patrick Wood fellow, as annoying as it gets.
I guess the Lord ran out of patience with all the homosexuals, porn, and liberals out there. If it turns into a desert before sliding into the sea, you'll know who did it.
The land of fruits and nuts located on the westbend of America.
If all the states were a family, California would be known as "Weird Old Uncle Frank."
How about "Wicked Uncle Ernie"?
Cali = Tommy's Holiday Camp? I'm good with that ; )
Did he happen to say anything about geo-engineering? No. So who gives a shit what he said. He's just another gilded mouse.
Oh boy shit just got shittier.
http://rt.com/news/246077-russian-consulate-yemen-airstrikes/?utm_source...
The Russian Consulate General in the Yemeni sea port of Aden has been hit Saudi-led coalition airstrikes, a source in the Russia embassy in Yemen told Sputnik.
I think a groveling apology from Kerry is in order.
It's pee-drinking time, folks.
Just wait until we defund the UN on attempting to mandate Obama's Executive Order on Climate laws. The UN will have to place office space up for section 8 housing to meet current rental obligations.
As The Eagles once said: "'Cause I'm allllllllllllllllllllllready gone". (as sung by THE REST OF THE WORLD)
LULZ
This is probably a case of "no choice". I posted before that the newly developed El Nino, a weather pattern that is famous for driving Pacific moisture into California, up to and including major flooding event, has not formed as normal. Instead of the war water surface pool forming along the west coast of central and South America, which drives moisture to California. Due to changes in the Pacific cycles, this major El Nino has formed mid Pacific, and this is associated with DRY PATTERNS in California. So the weather system they prayed would develop did so, but in the wrong place. Since a central pacific El Nino usually results in a dry California, the odds favor the drought continuing. Weather can always throw a curve ball anbd rescue California, but right now the major weather patterns do NOT favor that scenario. So saving water now seems like a no choice case.
A super computer can't come close to modeling these things, but Jack Burton can solve it with a single post.
Cannot believe, after all the years of whining, that they are going to restrict water usage - incredible. The fruits and nuts were/are counting on a big handout aka bailout from the rest of us so they can water their desert and golf courses. How is that golf courses never go dry, even here in Texas the frickin' golf courses stayed green during our multiple year drought?!?!
Because in Texas you get more rain year round. WTF are you talking about?
I triple dog dare Gov. Brown to:
1. Stop watering the golf courses.
2. Stop selling bottled water bottled in CA.
3. Stop beer company's production in CA.
4. Stop Fracking.
5. Stop building more swimming pools and hot tubs.
6. Stop growing grapes
Please add to the list.
Add 1 more:
7. Stop diverting their fresh water supply into the Pacific Ocean.
There's half a million people who live in or around the Sacramento Delta who might disagree with that statement. They are afraid the delta will turn into a huge stinking mud flat.
A lot of people in this state earn their living off of salmon and other fish in the rivers. They and the farmers are both scr***d this year.
Almonds and walnuts are going to get very expensive, along with green leafy veggies. Stock up on canned spinach, the Popeye Gambit!
8. Chemtrails
9. HAARP
10. facepalms
"One of the oddities of this drought is that conditions aren’t just driven by a lack of rainfall. There have been plenty of droughts in the past with less precipitation. (The drought of 1527 to 1529, for example, was killer.) What makes this drought exceptional is the heat. Extreme heat."
HEAT of course makes any drought ever so much worse!
Goll-lee, they sure are dumb.
Around these parts if we need water we dig a well!
Combat showers every other day would go a long way.
There is no solution to this, end of this summer California is done. Huge question -- where in the H will all those people go?
For 100 years California's real estate developers have been telling the world how wonderful California is. For 100 years California's movie industry has been telling the world how wonderful California is.
As a result 37,000,000 chumps have showed up expecting wonderful California to be, well, wonderful.
Here's a good rule of thumb: You'll never go wrong blaming real estate developers and chambers of commerce for problems you face today.
Y'all have fun in the sun now.
This guy predicted this 4 months ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwRm-jxbKOM&list=UUp7xAgrKhcVKEztY_gjlLVQ
Published on Dec 3, 2014
This video shows Haarp downbursts breaking up a powerful low pressure, off the coast of California, between Nov 30 to Dec 3rd, 2014. Absolute proof is shown, of descending air, being pressed down (clockwise rotation), on top of a powerful, Pacific Low pressure.
Also, this video shows proof of dry air, being pressed down, over the Sierras, to reduce, or prevent any snowfall. The snowpack in the Sierras will become irrigation, and drinking water, next spring and summer.
So, these Haarp operations are a criminal act of fraud, treason, and genocide, against the people of California.
The United States of America was on the verge of bombing Syria based on a youtube vid, remember?
Yup, absolute proof. I saw it on youtube. /facepalm
DOES THIS MEAN ANYTHING -
For the first time I can remember, the LAKE MEAD Water Database WAS NOT UPDATED THIS MORNING!!
http://lakemead.water-data.com/
Is it just too painful to show another foot gone???
Absolute proof that everything is cyclic in nature.
Look at their own chart, 1982-1983. Max snow.
That year, I'll bet there were plenty of mudslides and landslides.
The solar cycle (sunspot min/max) is 22 years. The SUN is the single most contributing factor
to weather on the Earth. (The tilt of our axis is the 2nd most contributing factor).
Per Solar Sunspot minimums and maximums, which changes the surface temperature of the Sun,
our Oceans, which distribute the heat globally, change temperature (El Nino, La Nina).
So please stop all this doom and gloom about a 3 times human-length record of actual empirical data.
10 years from now, California will be complaining about too much rain and the mudslides, again.
Everything else is just Agenda 21 hyperbole.
Oh, and BTW, hey Federal Government,
please stop diverting fresh water into the Pacific Ocean.
That would help...
In 1986 we had a drought at the beginning of February and massive floods by the end of February. I'm hoping for a miracle, but maybe not quite that drastic.
Didn't Al Gore invent solar cycles?!?
The old Sunspot Hyperbole. Didnt Al Gore discover Aluminium Rain in sun spots?
As a California resident, I thank God I don't have a mortgage hanging over my head right now. California will survive but only because it can be maintained by the wealthy that can afford astronomical utility payments. I shall move to the lovely, green Midwest. Bring on the drought.
HAARP
@Offwirenews...
ABSOFUCKINLUTELY...
Bitchez gotta go see a site by DutchSince...
This guy knows everything about HAARP...and Cali has been and is being attacked...they create high pressure zones over the state that diverts all precipitation...
HAARP
...and then came the fires....
Did you say, here comes the fires?
1. Car fires because poor/stupid people don't maintain their vehicles?
2. When companies torch their buildings to collect insurance money?
3. When some stupid camper or homeless person tries to keep warm by building a fire?
4. Or when some pyromaniac thinks it funny to burn things down?
Please clarify.
damn those poor people.