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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 should have posted and/ or. Really doesn't matter. IMO. Fact is, one car fire on the freeway causes a brush fire and slows traffic down to a crawl. Either way it sucks. No offense to being poor. Been there done that. Right after graduating college. LOL! Never been so poor in my life.!
Give it back to Mexico and let the Mexicans deal with that problem.
Dear California,
Please ignore that giant body of water to the west. You are too stupid to figure out how to take the salt from it and make it drinkable.
Signed,
The Pacific Ocean
I guess that means no summer city wide water slides in San Francisco or Los Angeles....
http://www.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2015/01/27/giant-slip-n-slide-comi...
Oil them up instead.
The Kenyan will now sign an executive order diverting drinking water from CA nursing homes, orphanages, animal rescue shelters, VA facilities, and childrens' hospitals to save the golf courses.
It looks like the Lord has finally had enough of Sodom and Gomorrah (Kailifornia),and is now inflicting His wrath upon them..
Certainly hope that is the case. And if it is the case, His wrath will soon spread to other parts of the country as well.
Drink your own piss. I'm sure that'll help.
Maybe Governor Moonbeam can meditate some rain into falling!
not his job.
maybe Mullah Obama can speak to allah.......he got this.
Inshallah
build a fence so they dont infect the rest of the country with their liberal filth
Mexicans will regret having huge holes in the border with the US.
Remember when Gov Moonbeam .... rationed T-Bone steaks .... to every prisoner in California .... they cost extra .... the trimming had to be precise .... to avoid riots !
A duplicate post is a terrible thing to waste !
Brown's actions are fine, but they still do NOT apply to Nancy Pelosi or her neighborhood, correct?
Like it is right now and has been for ol' Nancy since day 1.
After all, water restrictions are for the plebes, the commoners, the dirty masses, not Nancy!
I have lot's of water in my area. I should start moving water by tanker trailer to California. I could probably haul about 11,000 gallons per load. The only drawback is it might keep Califonian liberals from dying of thirst.
"We rationed some folks"
Lived in Coastal South Central California from '93 to '04. Thought I saw the writing on the wall and moved back to the edge of the rainforest in the Pacific Northwest.
But never in a million years could I have predicted "Moonbeam" Brown would be Governor again!
The importation of another 10 million illegal immigrants will solve this faux problem.
Oh Noes! I can't get fresh Avacado here in Kentucky! What should I do?
So long you disgusting land mass of a state. Everything north of Sacremento, please join Oregon.
You will probably get your wish as everything south of Sacramento is becoming 'North Mexico' and by the way, you get all your avocados from Mexico.
I don't Understand. California have beautiful beaches with bikini clad ladies. Sure can relax under the sand to cool off from heat?
Why so much negative predictions?
Real estate agents still selling well as I understand.
Chemtrails and HAARP just about everyday! I will testify as an eye witness. We need some real answers on this shit!
try holding your breath (esp while looking up)
Moonbeam for POTUS ...
"For First Time In History, Democrat President Orders Mandatory Tax Cuts Amid "Unprecedented, Dangerous Situation"
Desalination plants instead of bases with marines in them?
Money well spent?
Reservoirs and desalination plants are not the priority. Gay marriage and amnesty for illegals are dammit!
Someone is being misleading here. Urban water use accounts for less than 20% of total water useage in California, whilst far more (depending on the stats you use) originates with agriculture and environmental management (something like 80-85%). Where are Jerry Brown's comments about needing to cut back agricaultural use and environmental management which constitute by far the greatest use of water in the state? It couldn't be because the word's 'business profits' get in the way, could it now?
California will test your car's tailpipe for pollution and require you to spend thousands to bring your car up to standards.
Meanwhile industrial pollution is for sale by the ton at the statehouse and the federal level.
Smoke enough Mary Wanna and the thrist goes away
well, maybe we can go back to the Middle East and ask for all of the money we plowed into the ground there in the forms of bombs, bullets and tanks, and start building some water storage facilities.
moments like this i thank Jesus Christ for giving me the opportunity to leave California in 2006 with a bag full of money, a Rolex and a Porsche!
So the 'snoops' in CA will just have to 'eat shit and die'. LOL! Like who would give a flying fuck? Simply eat shit and die mofo's.
Salt water is in abundance. And solar energy too. It's time for businesses to produce tap water on a large scale. Every difficulty creates opportunities.
Meanwhile, third most snowfall ever in Boston and much of the northeast.
Hmmmm....