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The Greatest Water Crisis In The History Of The United States
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
What are we going to do once all the water is gone? Thanks to the worst drought in more than 1,000 years, the western third of the country is facing the greatest water crisis that the United States has ever seen. Lake Mead is now the lowest that it has ever been since the Hoover Dam was finished in the 1930s, mandatory water restrictions have already been implemented in the state of California, and there are already widespread reports of people stealing water in some of the worst hit areas. But this is just the beginning.
Right now, in a desperate attempt to maintain somewhat “normal” levels of activity, water is being pumped out of the ground in the western half of the nation at an absolutely staggering pace. Once that irreplaceable groundwater is gone, that is when the real crisis will begin. If this multi-year drought stretches on and becomes the “megadrought” that a lot of scientists are now warning about, life as we know it in much of the country is going to be fundamentally transformed and millions of Americans may be forced to find somewhere else to live.
Simply put, this is not a normal drought. What the western half of the nation is experiencing right now is highly unusual. In fact, scientists tell us that California has not seen anything quite like this in at least 1,200 years…
Analyzing tree rings that date back to 800 A.D. — a time when Vikings were marauding Europe and the Chinese were inventing gunpowder — there is no three-year period when California’s rainfall has been as low and its temperatures as hot as they have been from 2012 to 2014, the researchers found.
Much of the state of California was once a desert, and much of it is now turning back into a desert. The same thing can also be said about much of Arizona and much of Nevada. We never really should have built massive, sprawling cities such as Las Vegas and Phoenix in the middle of the desert. But the 20th century was the wettest century for western North America in about 1,000 years, and we got lulled into a false sense of security.
At this point, the water level in Lake Mead has hit a brand new record low, and authorities are warning that official water rationing could soon begin for both Arizona and Nevada…
Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the US, has hit its lowest level ever. Feeding California, Nevada and Arizona, it can hold a mind-boggling 35 cubic kilometres of water. But it has been many years since it was at capacity, and the situation is only getting worse.
“We’re only at 38 percent full. Lake Mead hasn’t been this low since we were filling it in the 1930s,” said a spokeswoman for the US Bureau of Reclamation in Las Vegas.
If it gets much lower – and with summer approaching and a dwindling snowpack available to replenish it, that looks likely – official rationing will begin for Arizona and Nevada.
And did you know that the once mighty Colorado River no longer even reaches the ocean? Over 40 million people depend upon this one river, and because the Colorado is slowly dying an enormous amount of water is being pumped out of the ground in a crazed attempt to carry on with business as usual…
The Colorado River currently supplies water to more than 40 million people from Denver to Los Angeles (as well as Las Vegas, Phoenix, Tucson, San Diego, Salt Lake City, Albuquerque, and Santa Fe—none of which lie directly on the river). According to one recent study, 16 million jobs and $1.4 trillion in annual economic activity across the West depend on the Colorado. As the river dries up, farmers and cities have turned to pumping groundwater. In just the last 10 years, the Colorado Basin has lost 15.6 cubic miles of subsurface freshwater, an amount researchers called “shocking.” Once an official shortage is declared, Arizona farmers will increase their rate of pumping even further, to blunt the effect of an anticipated sharp cutback.
The same kind of thing is going on in the middle part of the country. Farmers are pumping water out of the rapidly shrinking Ogallala Aquifer so fast that a major crisis in the years ahead is virtually guaranteed…
Farther east, the Ogallala Aquifer under the High Plains is also shrinking because of too much demand. When the Dust Bowl overtook the Great Plains in the 1930s, the Ogallala had been discovered only recently, and for the most part it wasn’t tapped then to help ease the drought. But large-scale center-pivot irrigation transformed crop production on the plains after World War II, allowing water-thirsty crops like corn and alfalfa for feeding livestock.
But severe drought threatens the southern plains again, and water is being unsustainably drawn from the southern Ogallala Aquifer. The northern Ogallala, found near the surface in Nebraska, is replenished by surface runoff from rivers originating in the Rockies. But farther south in Texas and New Mexico, water lies hundreds of feet below the surface, and does not recharge. Sandra Postel wrote here last month that the Ogallala Aquifer water level in the Texas Panhandle has dropped by up to 15 feet in the past decade, with more than three-quarters of that loss having come during the drought of the past five years. A recent Kansas State University study said that if farmers in Kansas keep irrigating at present rates, 69 percent of the Ogallala Aquifer will be gone in 50 years.
At one time, most of us took water completely for granted.
But now that it is becoming “the new oil”, people are starting to look at water much differently. Sadly, this even includes thieves…
With the state of California mired in its fourth year of drought and a mandatory 25 percent reduction in water usage in place, reports of water theft have become common.
In April, The Associated Press reported that huge amounts of water went missing from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and a state investigation was launched.
The delta is a vital body of water, serving 23 million Californians as well as millions of farm acres, according to the Association for California Water Agencies.
The AP reported in February that a number of homeowners in Modesto, California, were fined $1,500 for allegedly taking water from a canal. In another instance, thieves in the town of North San Juan stole hundreds of gallons of water from a fire department tank.
In case you are wondering, of course this emerging water crisis is going to deeply affect our food supply. More than 40 percent of all our fruits and vegetables are grown in the state of California, so this drought is going to end up hitting all of us in the wallet one way or another.
And this water crisis is not the only major threat that our food supply is facing at the moment. A horrific outbreak of the bird flu has already killed more than 20 million turkeys and chickens, and the price of eggs has already gone up substantially…
The cost of a carton of large eggs in the Midwest has jumped nearly 17 percent to $1.39 a dozen from $1.19 since mid-April when the virus began appearing in Iowa’s chicken flocks and farmers culled their flocks to contain any spread.
A much bigger increase has emerged in the eggs used as ingredients in processed products like cake mix and mayonnaise, which account for the majority of what Iowa produces. Those eggs have jumped 63 percent to $1.03 a dozen from 63 cents in the last three weeks, said Rick Brown, senior vice president of Urner Barry, a commodity market analysis firm.
Most of us are accustomed to thinking of the United States as a land of seemingly endless resources, but now we are really starting to bump up against some of our limitations.
Despite all of our technology, the truth is that we are still exceedingly dependent on the weather patterns that produce rain and snow for us.
For years, I have been warning that Dust Bowl conditions would be returning to the western half of the country, and thanks to this multi-year drought we can now see it slowly happening all around us.
And if this drought continues to stretch on, things are going to get worse than this.
Much worse.
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Next michelle O will be harfing on about "water deserts", I mean just extrapolating from current idiocies.
lol...yeah perhaps a nice Caesars Casino salad w/sand grit (for digestive purposes of course) in place of something kids really will to eat.
From obesity to anorexia in incremental, bite sized, time released governmental steps, gives the nattering busy-body statists something to occupy their lives with.
Can't kids bring their own lunch to school anymore? They could have PB&J, a bag of chips, an apple, a juice box and maybe a Twinkie for desert. That lunch would probably cause a riot.
A double helping please! ;-)
"policies that put the needs of fish above the livelihood of people"
People eat fish. In fact, estuaries are the most fertile (biologically productive) areas on the planet. Taking away the estuaries' natural water supply to subsidize almond trees in the desert is suicidal behavior.
This is propaganda and nothing more. My family having been agricultural landowners in the "Golden State" for three generations I can tell you this chart info is crap. By the way, it rained today.. in SoCal.
TPTB are gathering the force necessary to scare the sheeple into accepting yet another takeover of private property.
Prepare accordingly.
Been raining it's fucking ass off here for a month. This area is typically dry. Apparently that's a drought.
How about those photos posted on ZH a few days ago showing lake levels down, what, it looked like maybe 30 feet or 50 feet or some enormous amount?
The capacity and water levels of the 10 reservoirs in my area in the Santa Clara Valley (CA) Water District range from 91.5% of full Reservoir Capacity at the Stevens Creek Watershed to a low of 41.9% at the Calero Reservoir in the Guadalupe River Watershed. Here are the %’s of Reservoir Capacity for the 10 reservoirs as of today: 91.5, 74.8, 41.9, 58.6, 43.6, 74, 52.1, 49.6, 44.1, 67.9, and 50.9.
http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_17700654
In my area Lake Superior is 8" above the century average and Lake Michigan/Huron is 4" above the century average.
Thanks. That doesn't sound so awful. Well, let's hope it rains. But if this IS a long-term trend, perhaps we will see smaller number next Spring, and the next.
Golf courses still green. Almonds still have water and swimming pools are still full. Not quite that bad is it?!
And Lake Mead is how full??
1078.... intakes for Las Vegas water @ 1000
How full would it be without the Hoover Dam? It wouldn't even be "a lake". Thank you central planner extraordinaire FDR, its a fucking desert.
He had to do something while planning ww2 and fucking his jew cousins. Roundup phoenix, california and vegas and bus'em to dc (problem solved).
What if Sheldon Adelson gets the USA to successfully negotiate with Cuba to allow him to set up a new casino in Havana? Then would it be time to begin easing out of Las Vegas and back into Havana?
Oh, they hauled that water to mars. Your not invited.
Give it time. A few months.
Nut farmers are either drilling deeper (if they can afford it), or getting into nut arbitrage.
What's that line again? Tick, tock....
Good firewood will be cheap in a few years as long as they can haul it out of super cal to sell or burn it.
The horror, expensive imported nuts! Its like another holocaust.
Another ZH fear porn retread. There is plenty of water for non-agricultural users.
Cool. Here some water to drink and some ice to eat. Great diet.
Ok Californians, I believe the negros 100 years ago had a saying about taking a pitcher to the well too many times.
Now with water
Next with money.
WORST DROUGHT SINCE LEHMAN! AAAAHHHHHHHHHH!
"Analyzing tree rings that date back to 800 A.D. — a time when Vikings were marauding Europe and the Chinese were inventing gunpowder — there is no three-year period when California’s rainfall has been as low and its temperatures as hot as they have been from 2012 to 2014, the researchers found."
So...NOT "manmade global warming" then.
Somebody inform Obozo before he jumps on Air Force One to burn some more fuel and ear drums ;-)
...and let's not fail to consider that 1200 years is a geological nanosecond.
Certainly.
And the "Industrial Age" even less ;-)
Our snowpack here in the Sierras is at 3% and most of it is gone. And our Nevada Governor formed a task force to "study" and implement a plan. They will have their studies finished in November. November, we have been in this drought for 4 years now and Nevada is just now taking a look at how serious this lack of water is.
Small ski areas here will go out of business soon along with many other Tahoe businesses. Boating will be almost non-existant with the low Lake Tahoe levels and the Truckee river rafting for this year will be cancelled. Lots of jobs lost in Northern Nevada and we do not even talk much about this dire situation.
For god sakes, we live in the freaking desert. Lets adjust to that. This is serious shit. And, stop issuing building permits in Las Vegas. That is insane.
I guess they are all to busy buying stocks since they only go up. When it is time to pay the Pied Piper for all this excess he will be in business for a long, long time. I got my stash, I hope most of you do too.
"we have been in this drought for 4 years now and Nevada is just now taking a look at how serious this lack of water is."
When the water is gone then they'll take action. Politics at it's best.
Plenty of water in the sea. They just need to take the salt out.
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First (before they feed you radioactive sea water) they'll insist that putting a meter (and pay them for what) will be helpful. When I see them drink their first 1000 gallons and live I may give it a try (not really).
But without growth to fund the financial industries we will all perish.
I think we have a leadership IQ drought.
Read up on the poor Okies whose kids died because their lungs literally filled with dust. How they had to cover cribs with wet towels to try and save them from the dust. This story is such incredible bullshit it makes my balls hurt!
For years, I have been warning that Dust Bowl conditions would be returning to the western half of the country, and thanks to this multi-year drought we can now see it slowly happening all around us.
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Crap...go check the monthly climo data for major cities of Texas, Okla, and even Co. Many are running 100 to 400 percent above normal. Anyway, dry spells lasting months sometimes is a climotological normal anywhere west of Omaha, Tulsa, Dallas, San Antonio.
When China bought the pork firm in America within a year there was pig flu killing MILLIONS of pigs in USA, now it is CHINESE BIRD FLU killing MILLIONS of chickens, turkeys.
We have a government that DOES NOT CARE ABOUT US. In fact they HATE us.
Affirmative Action anyone?
(White) Kentucky Sheriff On Suspect Shot By Police – “We Are Glad He Is White” [VIDEO]
Overpopulation in the United States will become THE single greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century. We either solve it proactively or nature will solve it brutally for us via water shortages, energy crisis, air pollution, gridlock, species extinction and worse.
U.S. population will double from 300 million to 600 million on its way to 1 billion in the lifetime of a child born today if we fail to change course.
- Frosty Wooldridge (2000)
Overpopulation is impossible in America without Hispanic immigration. The legal American population's reproduction rates are far below replacement.
Is it a coincidence that those areas suffering the greatest shortage of water have the highest population of Hispanics?
Are you suggesting Hispanics, by their very presence, reduce rainfall?
They must use a lot of water mixing masa to make corn tortillas. And anybody who's ever cooked dried pinto beans know those fuckers soak up a lot of water during cooking.
It's hilarious that the "intelligence" community built their data center in Utah's desert to hold collected data on Americans. It will be interesting to see how they keep it running.
If necessary, they'll simply divert SLC's allocation ;)
I have a sneaky suspicion that the NSA will get all the water that they need. You will all be drinking your own piss before that data center runs out of water or power.
Dunno, air cooled?
Canada has lots of fresh water and are ripe for a takeover.
You sure about that, eh?
http://burrowburrow.com/robots/moose.jpg
BUY! BUY! BUY!
So is the plan to move there, or to pump water over the continental divide?
There is hope on the horizon. The El Nino system finally seems to be here and here to stay for some months. Although this one has developed further out to sea than usual, any El Nino this big might just begin to throw the Pacific moisture into California as past records show is the norm. Time will tell, I suspect most of California's major governmental units are praying El Nino blasts storms into California. If this does not happen, as it might not, then California is under the influence of a bigger cycle than El Nino - LaNina. The PDO has shifted recently, lets wait and see what happens.
Fear porn. Tylers, this is beneath you.
Well, apparently not because this trend seems to be intensifying.
If we could get rid of the leftwing we would be alright. Those assholes are the ones complaining about desalinization, new wells and lack of conservation - yet those aids-ladened fags think that we have unlimited capacity for brown people.
Infinite capacity-finite resources. You're racist of you think that's stupid.
How fucking window-licking retarded can one group of gruberites be? Very.
You do realize the "brown" people were here first, and will likely be here last; because they are more adaptable to desert conditions. Thirsty yet?
I thought they were red people. Did the "brown" people kill the red people?
And, btw, if the "brown" people are such desert survivors, why are they up here with Google; why did they leave Mexico?
Cats evolved in the desert and yet they love to cuddle up on soft, warm pillows, eat chopped liver from a silver platter and play with balls of string rather than, you know, being in their habitat.
Maybe they are expanding with their habitat? Or, just expanding in general.
When i started to hear arguments against solar energy and desalination from environmentalists, despite their previous support for such technologies, i knew at heart what is going on.
Lots of environmentalists hate humanity and wish for it to, lets not say dissapear, but massively shrink. They love the fact that oil will dissapear and lash against even the green alternatives (not couting nuclear) because they want a crash to happen.
Life is pointless and most humans are a pest on each other. Why not improve your quality of life by killing almost everyone? The dead wont care anyway and the living get a whole planet for themselves.
Feeling nauseated and deciding not to partake in this wont get you off the crosshairs.
No shit it's not normal. Cali is a fucking desert. What the fuck did they expect to happen?
But but but real estate goes up. When you pay $5,500/month for a singe family home a $330/month water bill is not that bad.
"But the 20th century was the wettest century for western North America in about 1,000 years, and we got lulled into a false sense of security."
That is an important fact! How could the early developes know that they were making plans and acting on them based on an entirely abnormal weather patter? They, like all people before the science developed, just assumed that weather stayed within reasonable limits. They were wrong, nature plaed a cruel hoax. Those with billions tied up in California Real Estate may be sweating right now. If this continues, image owning land in the Sahara! Banks will fold as RE sits on the books of banks guaranteed to cover hundreds of billions of loans! If RE crashes, then banks fall like nine pins!
Its a freakin torrential drought here in Southern California today. Got take an umbrella to the AA meeting tonight. Nothing worse than a soaked to the gills alcoholic.
BTW looks like thems some government statistics you got hold of. Remember the 2012 NDAA. Ya think?
Dependence on and death from government need not come in the form of an EBT card.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
It's a damn good thing global warming is a hoax!
http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/05/bias-in-satellite-measurements-hi...
http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/05/climate-change-a-hoax-says-key-bu...
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/05/survey-of-12000-studies-finds-str...
http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/03/warm-arctic-winter-starts-sea-ice...
http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/02/newsflash-the-greenhouse-effect-r...
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2011-temps.html http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2010-warmest-year.htmlThank for the chuckle. I needed it.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
"Ars Technica was privately owned until May 2008, when it was sold to Condé Nast Digital, the online division of Condé Nast Publications." And arriving at our destination, Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. is the Chairman of Conde Nast.
Yeah, no purchased "credibility" there?!
You have never heard of primary sources apparently, Ars is merely an aggregator with commentary...
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/05/brrr-record-antarctic-sea-ice-ma...
Piss off
Never: that's why I stick to the facts and you can go cry like a baby.
"What are we going to do once all the water is gone?"
Drink and bath in beer. LMAO.
Scotch?
It is raining in Los Angeles today. We tend not to get rain in May, yet it has rained twice this month. An El Nino is brewing, so we could get above average rainfall next winter. An El Nino won't solve the water problem, but it will give some respite during adjustment to an apparent drier future.
Look west Californians!!
It's called the Pacific Ocean!!
Lots of water in that ocean!!
Oh, I'm sorry I forgot, you have to build a high speed train!!!!!!
Might be the reason why Canada has gone full retard and is looking more and more like another US state. Ripe for the US refugee invasion when the water runs out. :)
From the Association of California Water Agencies;
Key water projects and the amount of water they deliver:The water infrastructure mostly built during the early part of the last century was fine for that era's population which was 10.5 million people in the 1950's. The problem is supplying 38.8 million people now and the industries that have been created since then. You will notice the glaring fact that the CA water supply systems have not been upgraded for generations. No infrastructure upgrades + No rain + Quadrupled population = full retard.
DC US', not American country's, view:
Canada has:
1) Farm land and vast natural resources. Check.
2) Water. Check.
3) Oil and gas. Check.
So then, they must be harboring and training "terrorists," possesses WMDs, and have Niger "yellow cake."
Coupled with proximity, I smell a North American "Anschluss" coming on.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
"Two passports in pristine condition were found in the debris of yesterday's devastating bombing and collapse of Chicago's Second City building that killed 12 people. Authorities indicate that the passports belong to the suspected bombers, Bob and Doug McKenzie."
Lebensraum baby! What are we going to do with all those pesky Canadians?
Droughts tend to be the beginnings of floods.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
"What are we going to do?" Quick... cry me a river?
CA already fucked around turning their productive farmland into a dust bowl before the drought. Now they're totally F'd. Chardonnay Grapes of Wrath.
I don't get it, is Chardonnay a dry wine? lol
All this talk of the California drought reminds me of the movie "Chinatown" where multimillionaire Noah Cross conducts a campaign to convince the public that Los Angeles is facing a terrible drought so that voters will approve a measure to build a hugely expensive aquaduct to bring water to LA and alleviate the (phoney) drought. Actually it is all part of a plan to annex and develop the San Fernando valley which Cross and his associates are secretly buying up.
There is certainly lots of media coverage of the drought (just like in the movie), Jerry Brown is proceeding with lots of expensive water projects (just as in the movie), and California real estate is being bought up like crazy (just like in the move). If the patttern holds, the drought will vanish as soon as the water projects are approved and some lucky megamillionaires will become even wealthier building subdivisions in the CA desert using water from the projects that CA taxpayers so generously paid for.
soooo, water projects, aquaducts, dams, etc. They gonna fill em with milk or what?? I know, they got plenty salt water, fillem with dat.
San Diego is currently building the nation's largest ocean desalination plant and 15 others are proposed:
http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_25859513/nations-largest-ocean-des...
Uh, they already built there. And no, the drought isn't helping California housing prices.
There is plenty of desert north and east of LA. And CA home prices are soaring. So at least the drought doesn't seem to be hurting prices.
Might not be far off. I worked on the mini sister project directly south of this one, to see if this massive development would go through. http://tejonranch.com/our-communities/centennial/ Plenty of news on Centennial.
We should separate real drought of moderate severity so far for California standards and completely man-made water crisis serving as shock doctrine says to run ridiculous Wall Street funded water privatization ponzi schemes and fleecing US taxpayers.
There are two moderate (not severe yet) log term problems with water sustainability in California. First is runoff underground capture and reuse of water which is barely done right now and second revision of water rights to prevent water commodity speculation and export.
If those issues are resolved California would be able to survive possibly even 10 to 20 years without any rain.
What is helping a little is that emigration to California collapsed and is negative for last ten years so population growth is limited. Also ongoing economic crisis and collapse of spending helping to curb demand for water as well as plant foods grown in California. But so far only victims of the charade are water ratepayers and small to medium farmers who have to pay exuberant water bills.
An interesting take on the current drought and man-made water crisis in California I found at:
https://sostratusworks.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/california-waterworld-of...
What are we going to do once all the water is gone?
Reduce the population, one way or another that's coming.
We can each think of three ways to solve this ‘crisis’…. Government is figuring out which ways to bang us the hardest, get ready.
"What are we going to do once all the water is gone? "
Print MOAR dumbass
https://search.yahoo.com/local/s;_ylt=A0LEVzfDRVVVk5sASLNXNyoA;_ylu=X3oD...
Stillsuits!
'Stillsuits'... Like they wore in Dune... You're brilliant.
Now where to import the Giant Sandworms from...
Enjoy drinking your own sweat, urine and feces much?
People will be forced to buy it from George Bush and his minions on his hideaway in Paraguay that he bought near the Guarani Aquifer, one of the largest underground water reserves.
The US presence in Paraguay has been under scrutiny since May 2005 when the country's Congress agreed to allow 400 American marines to operate there for 18 months in exchange for financial aid.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/oct/23/mainsection.tomphillips
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022473474
and now... 2015
US Army to Train Paraguay Soldiers Amid Militarization Concerns
Analysts are worried about Washington’s growing military presence in the region.According to Pablo Ruiz, a member of the Observers of the School of the Americas, Washington is “militarizing” the region in a strategic manner to take over the area's natural resources. “Their geopolitical interests that have to do with access to resources,” such as “oil, freshwater, biodiversity or minerals,” said Ruiz, reported Resumen Latino Americano. This is essential “to continue to maintain U.S. rule” of the region, says the academic.
This content was originally published by teleSUR at the following address:
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/US-Army-to-Train-Paraguay-Soldiers-Amid-Militarization-Concerns-20150512-0026.html. If you intend to use it, please cite the source and provide a link to the original article. www.teleSURtv.net/english
Our earth is overpopulated.
No it isn't.
when the oil is gone, you will all sing a different tune. Unlike water there is no natural, current time, replacement cycle for oil. It's a one up and gone.
Overpopulation is a LIE:
https://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/eye-opening-8-minutes-and-19...
How many people can the Earth support, and at what level of living standards? 100 billion living American lifestyle? 1 trillion living as cavemen?
Bopper,
Commit suicide to help rebuild the global climate change. Do it for the future generations. Your group has spun out of control. Best write your NGO to get the further America dustruction instructions.
You won't survive the upheaval of your proposed agenda. We are the foundation, you will be opposition. Guns kill tyranny. Keep that thought handy.
Become a pilot, crash your plane.
Take 200 rather than 1, its 200 times better for future generations.
NYC tunnels are 90 years old and need massive work. Shutting in a tunnel will affect 200,000 commuters a day and cost the city billions a year in lost economic activity. A new tunnel will take 15 years to build and cost $20 billion. Yes we have major problems.
Union labor.. 50 years and 900 billion and never completed and leaks all over the place.
Published in American Meteorological Society journal - Study: 'An analysis of the October 2013–September 2014 precipitation in the western United States and in particular over the California-Nevada region suggests this anomalously dry season, while extreme, is not unprecedented in comparison with the ~120-year long instrumental record of water year (WY, October–September) totals, and in comparison with a 407-year WY precipitation reconstruction back to 1571. Over this longer period nine other years are known or estimated to have been nearly as dry or drier than WY 2014. The three-year deficit for WY’s 2012–2014, which in the California-Nevada region exceeded the annual mean precipitation, is more extreme but also not unprecedented, occurring three other times over the past ~ 440 years in the reconstruction.'
http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00774.1?af=R&&
It's raining right now in Socal but we need a shitload more.
As Johnny Carson quipped decades ago: "At least the mudslides will put out the wildfires." ;-)
Unless you're planning on drinking or bathing in the pool, local rain only keeps the grass green. The majority of the water supply comes from upriver and it ain't raining or snowing enough over there.
Certain southern CA cities have wells tapped into natural water tables, so that's not really true. There are catch basins spread throughout the area that allows rainwater to percolate down to these aquifers and get replenished. Most of our rivers are either dammed, canaled, or diverted straight to the ocean.
This is true even farther east in the dry desert of the Coachella Valley (a la Palm Springs) where the water table was so low at one time you could dig a few feet in the ground and hit water. Hence "Indian Wells", "Desert Hot Springs" etc
Use Lake Tahoe.
Building cities and suburbs in california and the arid southwest will go down as the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.
California and the entire world are faced with how to get rid of water when you are overrun with it and how do you supply water to where it is needed while conforming to environmental enlightenment. California's population growth has outpaced its water supply, at the end of WWII the US had a population of 140,000,000 and California's population was 9,500,000. Today 300,000,000 live in the US & 37,000,000 in California and population growth will not stop. Should Californian's and millions of others be relocated to live along Canadian, Minnesota's or Wisconsin's lakes and rivers or would it make more sense to continue to move water to Rome like they did in 312bc or New York or where ever people gather. California ranks first in the United States for agriculture with cash receipts of ($43,544,001,000). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Water_and_Power_Alliance The North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWPA or NAWAPA, also referred to as NAWAPTA from proposed governing body the North American Water and Power Treaty Authority) is a proposed continental water management scheme conceived in the 1950s by the US Army Corps of Engineers. The planners envisioned diverting water from some rivers in Alaska south through Canada via the Rocky Mountain Trench and other routes to the US and would involve 369 separate construction projects. The water would enter the US in northern Montana. There it would be diverted to the headwaters of rivers such as the Colorado River and theYellowstone River. Implementation of NAWAPA has not been seriously considered since the 1970s, due to the array of environmental, economic and diplomatic issues raised by the proposal.[1][2] Western historian William deBuys wrote that "NAWAPA died a victim of its own grandiosity."[2]Environmental writer Marc Reisner noted in Cadillac Desert that the plan was one of "brutal magnificence" and "unprecedented destructiveness."[1] Historian Ted Steinberg suggested that NAWAPA summed up "the sheer arrogance and imperial ambitions of the modern hydraulic West" and credited rising costs and the rise of the environmental movement with killing the idea. [15] One author called it "the most outlandish water development scheme to emerge in the past 50 years"[18] On September 28th, JFK stopped in Whiskeytown CA, landing by helicopter directly on the dam and spoke: “Water should be used. Land west of the 100th parallel was never regarded as fertile until some days after the Civil War a few men began to come out here and made determinations of what could be done. And we have moved ahead, and this project is only the most recent. I am proud of it. It was opposed for many years… “When we are inclined to take these wonders for granted, let us remember that only a generation or two ago all the great rivers of America, the Missouri, the Columbia, the Mississippi, the Tennessee, ran to the sea unharnessed and unchecked. Their power potential was wasted. Their economic benefits were sparse. And their flooding caused an appalling destruction of life and of property…this nation began to develop its rivers systematically, to conserve its soil and its water, and to channel the destructive force of these great rivers into light and peace. And today, as a result of this, the face of this nation has been changed. Forests are growing where there was once dirt and waste. Now there is prosperity where our poorest citizens once lived. If there is one outstanding story among all this which indicates the kind of progress we can make working together, it’s the story of the REA…. “This is not a choice between spending and saving, for REA is a form of saving, as is this dam, hours and lives, saving farms and saving and returning to our Nation’s Government every dollar loaned, with interest, in taxes on new appliances and new equipment, and new farm income. This program and so many like it have returned to the public treasuries many times the entire cost of the program. “The question which confronts us is… the whole question of our resource development in the western United States in the 1960’s. …Surely a continent so rich in minerals, so blessed with water, and a society so replete with engineers and scientists can make and must make the best possible use of the bounty which nature and God have given us, public and private, federal and local, cooperative and corporate. “If we can apply to the challenges of the sixties the same principles of efficiency, cooperation, and foresight, which made this great dam possible, the same principles which cause American technicians to be sought out the world over to assist in developing the Nile, the Volta, the Mekong and the Indus Rivers, then we can look to a happy future….I don’t want to see the United States second in space or in the development of power resources. And I think it’s most appropriate in this great decade that we light the entire country….” —Oahe Dam, August 17, 1962 http://archive.larouchepac.com/nawapa-overview
I would expect more/stronger earthquakes, due to the depth of drought.
Most people justify the slave wages paid to farm workers of CA, because they have believed the lie that $8 head of lettuce is what you will have without slave labor production. Now with the water shortage, & valuless Dollar, the grocers will have the $8 head of lettuce inspite of the slave labor practice.
Stop supporting CA slave wage produce!
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People are cool with mexican slavery and chinese slavery "for economics" while patting themselves for the civil war "for human dignity".
First drought ever in the history of the world..........
OMG it will never rain again.............
gone forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The world will definately end in one or two days...
No way around it, it is the first drought ever and it will of course never end as they never do.............
sigh, I guess this means I'll just have to put up with DJIA 25,000. Raise a glass of water and toast.
They'll let it get bad and then they'll fix it and crow about it, but first they have to let it get bad.
Even now a reallocation of agricultural water (and less for the delta smelt) would fix everything. But even if the drought gets a little worse and lasts forever, it's nothing can't be fixed with some desalination and recycling in the cities, and some bigtime green house construction in the valley. It will cost some, but not that much. Water has been way too cheap for too long. At about three cents a gallon for urban water, no urban problems, at about once cent a gallon for agricultural water they will better use what's there and be mostly OK.
No worries. Elon Musk and Tesla will announce that they're pairing up with First Solar and they're going build giant water desalinization plants to solve the California water crisis. Of course, they'll want Bill 69 to be passed, which makes the development, construction and operation to be financed by federal and state taxes/subsidies. Then they'll spin that out as an IPO to the rest of the sheeple (of course, lead underwriters will be the DGW boys (doing God's work) and a few other rectal sniffers.
Easy. Peasy.
Has anyone thought that the sparkling water lobby has been funding media reports of water shortages to boost their own sales? Perrier, anyone?
No worries. Elon Musk and Tesla will announce that they're pairing up with First Solar and they're going build giant water desalinization plants to solve the California water crisis. Of course, they'll want Bill 69 to be passed, which makes the development, construction and operation to be financed by federal and state taxes/subsidies. Then they'll spin that out as an IPO to the rest of the sheeple (of course, lead underwriters will be the DGW boys (doing God's work) and a few other rectal sniffers.
Easy. Peasy.
Has anyone thought that the sparkling water lobby has been funding media reports of water shortages to boost their own sales? Perrier, anyone?
Follow the money is always a good policy.
Time will tell.
What are we going to do once all the water is gone?
Roll in the sand to clean ourselves and drink bottled water I suppose.
hmmmm, once the water is gone we are going drink bottled water. yah lets see x+y*z divided by an empty bottle = bottle over y+h2-0. I'm still working on this formula,, trying to solve for water in the bottle, I know it's in there somewhere even though we have no water. let me get back to you on this, don't stay up, it could take awhile. I may need to reorganize the formula and solve for S+t+u-p*i/d/
If you think rainfall is going to 0 mm per year, I suspect you'll be disappointed.
Almost all problems today are, at their root, overpopulation problems.
wtf?!? Why the down votes....it's the truth. the planet is getting too full.
Then lead the charge and kill yourself and your family and don't have any kids for the good of mankind and 'Mother Nature"; is it still overpopulated?
It doesnt work that way. The planet may be overpopulated but the trick is to kill others, never yourself. It has nothing to do with ethics.
After the surplus population is gone, cover stories should be manufactured about how they never existed.
Edit: Im not sure the earth is overpopulated. It may become so in the future but i dont think it is now. I have stopped believing it is but for sure the 95% still need to die. Its safer that way because you never know what trick they have up their sleeves.
Being fruitful, multiplying, and filling the earth.
filling, but not overfilling. How do you know when it is full?
That would be the natural conclusion if you by the lie of macro evolution. The rational or natural conclusion on that theory/lie is that a few people high up on the food-chain decide, for the good of mankind and "Mother Nature" (their goddess), that if man is to live on earth for tens or hundreds of thousands of years, then the herd must be purged. The Agenda 21 goal is 500 million. All 7 billion could fit comfortably in Texas and the US and Latin America could provide more than enough for all; it is greed that keeps people in the "dark" rather than the "light"..always has been and will till One cleans up this man-made disaster.
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The planet had a beginning, just as the Universe did and therefore has an end. It is a function of time, a created thing. The eternal state is outside of time and thus this universe being in time will end. Our Creator has made a disposable planet and has provided more than enough resources for all, but because of man's inherited greed & corruption; man has marred his own image & messed up the original creation Man was made in the image of God and weneed only to look upon Jesus to see His perfection. He lived in holy perfection and now calls all to repent and believe the good news, not believe bad news, but good news. People love bad news and often confuse that which is bad as good and that which is good as bad.
In TOTALLY unrelated news, the chemtrail spraying was ridiculous in E TN today.
You chemtrail doubters are really behind the times, this is not conspiracy theory, it is conspiracy fact. There are USAF whistleblowers, equipment patents, funding trails, UN position papers on how it should and should not be done, and the smoking gun a .gov document called "owning the weather by 2025, using weather as a force multiplier".
Quit downvoting and go do some research...
Aluminum from the chemtrails is stopping the dew, killing the worms and bugs and causing the drought.
But hey, no more pigeons? Problem solved!!
In Northern Kentucky, the Cincinnati Tri-state area..I have never seen so much Chem-trailing as I did today. It put a rainbow Halo around the sun and twice it created horizontal rainbows that were very distinctive. I know the operation is called Indigo Skyfold and they recently began using a new formulation where the trains disperse quite rapidly compared to the old formula. i have also notice it is much more effective in blocking the sun and it appears they are using both formulas as well and some at noticeably lower altitudes.
Alien jets on a genocidal run. It kills by inducing mutations. It will render humanity steril after the 5th generation.
I either made it up or secret knowledge was beamed to me in my sleep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BNTymuwHM4
Uploaded on Jul 19, 2009
(Tom Waits/K. Brennan)
They're lining up
To mad dog your tilta whirl
3 shots for a dollar
Win a real live doll
All the lies that you tell
I believed them so well. Take them back
Take them back to your red house
For that fearful leap into the dark
I did my time
In the jail of your arms
Now Ophelia wants to know
Where she should turn
Tell me...what did you do
What did you do the last time?
Why don't you do that
Go on ahead and take this the wrong way
Time's not your friend
Do you cry. Do you pray
Do you wish them away
Do you still leave nothing
But bones in the way
Did you bury the carnival
Lions and all
Excuse me while I sharpen my nails
And just who are you this time?
You look rather tired
(Who drinks from your shoe)
Are you pretending to love
Well I hear that it pays well
How do your pistol and your Bible and your
Sleeping pills go?
Are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?
Well I fell in love
With your sailor's mouth and your wounded eyes
You better get down on the floor
Don't you know this is war
Tell me who are you this time?
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Tom Waits-"Waltzing Matilda"
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HAARP-ed. One high pressure hanging continuously over California for over 4 years now - coincidence? Nope and Storm Clouds Gathering in a different sense. Interesting to see how train wrecks occur when the Congress takes up the "infrastructure" issue and California begins to have mandated water restrictions as another push for Global Warming Climate Change is going on and a financial crisis looms and then we have JADE HELM (Joint Assisted Deployment & Execution AND Homeland Extermination of Local Militias) In case one was wondering; there are few coincidences and these are not.
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Follow the money and it will tell the truth every time, for man is born to trouble as sparks fly upward.
They are spaying aluminum nano-particles in the air to "ameliorate the effects of global warming," thereby exacerbating the effects of global warming.
That's why there aren't any bugs anymore. And since there aren't any bugs, all the birds are dying.
But hey, are you ready for some football!!!???
hmmmm, must have some really tiny tiny tweezers in order to spay nano-particles. do they have nano nano ovaries? Calling Mork from Ork, we need the nano nano tweezers.
We never really should have built massive, sprawling cities such as Las Vegas and Phoenix in the middle of the desert.
The only sentence in the article worth a shit.
Who is "we"?
Reification, avoid it!
Human beings are made of 90% water. Where is this trend going?
sooo, what you are suggesting is, instead of soylent green, soylent wet.
Actually about 75% water; however the brain is about 90% and the trend is already downward with that specific organ...probaly what you meant in the first place. Cheers!!
This was an interesting post on May 4th, but since then Mammoth Mountain has had 22 inches of snow. They are expecting snow through at least Friday and another storm next week. Here is the historical link for past years by day. http://www.onthesnow.com/california/mammoth-mountain-ski-area/historical...
The real story is that an El Nino has formed and California is going to be about floods next. Global cooling = yes; global warming = not so much
Have everyone in CA turn their A/C's on full blast, recycle the condensate, pump it into the city water system. Now that's a cool idea, wet and wild.
You know what the indians of the region did when the droughts came? They died. Anyone interested in civilizational collapse (I think that's like 99% this site's of commenting readership) should already have heard of the Anasazi.
No, they didn't die, they abandoned these sites and returned from whence they came. Same with the Maya, they didn't disappear, they returned back to the forests and abandoned their ceremonial sites.
True however is why, when the Maya cenotes dried up or the Anasazi rains never came it caused these sites to be plundered or ceremoniously destroyed. Not that people didn't die in the plundering or the chaos of the process, but it wasn't that everyone just dessicated on site.
95% population reduction, so sure they didn't technically go extinct. They just lost most of their knowledge and culture, and went back to subsistence living.
If we poison the wells in the farm states with.... I don't know, some sort of petroleum byproducts it will increase the value of non-existant CA water and the market will fix everything.
Your welcome.
I don't think we should overreact or panic... it's only water... we drink at most 5% of our water supply... and drinking less can help you lose a bit of weight too ;)
Let them drink frac water!
Yo, dude!
It's like we're gettin' showers in the San Diego tonight and tomorrow. We'd would help you all out with your desert water problems but we runnin' a little short ourselves down here too. Check back once the desal plant goes 5ers. Catch ya on the Terramar fliptide dude.
“When the well is dry we know the value of water
Highest population in a 1000 years. Move to Idaho and Montana. You'll be welcome.