What surprised me the most about California!
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I live in Humboldt County, further north than you went. Our rainfall is closer to that of Friuli than that of most of the rest of California. One reason you didn't see the kind of water saving measures you might see elsewhere is, we're wasteful. No sugar coating that. We ARE wasteful. Most of us won't admit that, but, we are.
That being said - the VAST majority of the water we use in California is not domestic water, but, agricultural use. Even stringent domestic (household, yard, etc) would only change our total water use a very small percentage. That's not a good reason to keep wasting water, but, in our perspective, that's why we're not more concerned about running the bathroom tap too long.
That's my perspective.
Very true Paul. Nontheless, as far as I've read, domestic consumption of water is still a very high percentage and much can be done in that regards. In some other state it was 38%, in California is probably lower because there's so much agriculture. Still, let's say it's about 25%: if you only lower it to the consumption of an average Italian you more than half it. You'd have saved 12-15% of the state's water.
About agricultural water consumption I haven't observed or researched enough about it (nor I have the necessary knowledge in this field), but one of the things I immediately noticed in Sonoma and Napa counties was how grapevine is treated basically as a monoculture there. Again, I come from a region that is one of the main producers of wine in Italy so I have a certain image of vineyards that I'm used to, and let me tell you that Sonoma and even more Napa look very much different than what I'm used to: vineyards are extremely extended, no variety in crops, no significant amount of trees separating each vineyard...I've seen way too much bare soil and too little diversity. This is definitely not the way to make an intelligent use of agricultural water resources.
@@WhatashameMaryJane The last chart I saw of California water use was that "urban" water use was 10% of the total. So, if we made an enormous change in the way we use our domestic/urban water, and cut it by 30%, that's only a 3% change in the total water use.
You're absolutely correct that it's our agricultural use of water that needs reform far worse... but, we still need to improve our domestic use of water - just because it's more responsible.
As I type this, it's raining here in Eureka, and our local reservoir is full. It won't be in a month, though!
@@paulfeist From the California Department of Water Resources I read that "current statewide median indoor residential water use is 48 gallons per capita per day" in the state. That number is 33 in Germany and they're not even trying that hard. So I don't think that reducing it by 30% would be an "enormous change", as you described it. It would be just about bringing in people from other countries that are better and more experienced at dealing with water shortages and learning from them.
The problem is that Americans as a whole are not humble enough to ever even think of doing something like that. The dominant mentality is "America is the greatest country in the world, we're the best at everything and we have nothing to learn from anyone" - this way they'll never go anywhere long term.
@@WhatashameMaryJane I completely agree on all points... we're not good at admitting when we're not doing something right.
You make a lot of great comments on how to save water. Not only Californians, but I think most people don't want to change their lifestyle regardless of what is at stake until absolutely necessary. And by that time it is too late. There's an outrage whenever taxes are raised to force people to save water. The feelings are the same as a regular tax increase, and people don't want the government to force them to save water either with legal action or taxation. As long as the water flows out of the faucets, there isn't much thought that one day it may not flow.
Much of California between SF and LA is actually a desert with man-made oases. The mountainous areas in and around California have made it inhabitable with a large agricultural foundation. The Bay area which you visited is cool (and maybe even cold) because of the Pacific and the bay. The Pacific along the west coast flows down from the north so it dramatically cools the coast of California. It's still cool by the time it gets to LA, but not as cold. The east coast ocean comes from the south so it starts from the warm Gulfstream, however I'm guessing it gets a lot colder by the time it reaches the northeast. The one thing that is much different in California, because of the things I mentioned, is that there is a lot less humidity here than in the midwest and east coast. This makes it much more comfortable.
As far as friendly goes, most people are as you say, but there are many in California and other states with who you do not want to associate. You live in NYC, a diverse city (just like SF) which has a more tolerant mindset. I think it's because they are used to the diversity. Although LA is diverse overall, it is very segregated.
Hi Mary Jane - When you live in California you do tend to not have to worry about the weather which does negate some of the stress of the daily grind. The air quality is also nice. We are better at conserving water then you think - It's been an issue forever. ✌️
Hi David - tell me more about how you conserve water!
@@WhatashameMaryJane A few steps in my apartment - I don't use the dishwasher - I only flush the toilet every other urination & have tap water ( Hot & Cold ) on super slow so that when shaving or brushing my teeth - I use the majority of the water. It's not much , but it helps.
I concur with David. I have lived in CA and TX (where the drought situation is also quite dire at times), and it has been an issue for so long, many of us have become immune to it. There are times when we are not allowed to water our lawns (and you can sure tell!), or wash our cars, and we are reminded many times a day via commercials on TV to conserve water, but it has become just a part of daily life for many of us. Also...... I suspect that there is more water conservation going on than you might have seen evidence of in your brief time in CA. Also....CA has been importing water from other regions for decades. There is a huge system of aqueducts and reservoirs that the various water departments use to try to balance out supply and demand. There are times when there is way TOO MUCH water - and storing it without flooding entire cities and regions is another problem. So everyone knows that the current drought situation is temporary.
@@WhatashameMaryJane it's very cold in San Francisco at night I have been to North California Redding is also a colder climate. I never was able to travel to San Diego. I will stick to Michigan living. I can admit that I like NY but it's very expensive just like touring California
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The San Francisco Bay Area has warm (sometimes too hot) weather in August through early November. April through July is usually cool and breezy due to the fog.
Half or more of the drought issues in California are due to traditional but unsuitable agricultural production. It takes 5 gallons of water to produce one California walnut and 2 gallons per almond. That is wildly inefficient yet the nut growers have some much political power they get their water subsidies and allocations. Napa Valley has to overcharge for their wines (as good as many are) just to pay the brutal, onerous taxes of the local areas. Farmers have to plant tree and vine crops years before they get a return and then the environmental people swoop in and cut their water supply after their investment is made. That is supremely unfair and short-sighted. Orchards are being abandoned and land sold for taxes. Many farmers are moving to Arizona, Texas and Florida where the labor, water, and regulation costs make farming a joy and not a non-ending battle with the government.
I know man its nuts. Well if the US can pipe oil across the country, they can can also start pipping water cross country.
Yes, but California would tax you 40% for the honor of just selling them the water. then tax the water user, and tax them a third time for not using enough or using too much!
Enjoy your time 😊
Cheers from San Diego California
I enjoy your vids. Thank you.
California and Californians are in a different world as they say about us.
Its a neat place to grow up in its a mix of Old Latin past and Californios (its spanish speaking locals that have been there since 15th century) and (Californios also known as Mexicans or Chicanos are half native and spanish usually) sprinkled through out. The original pueblos San Jose (Santana Row/ San Pedro Square) and Los Angeles is a must visit to see its blend of Old Latin California and the new modern Cosmopolitan California. El Camino Real has its own history when California was under the spanish and then mexican government and the independent country of California before joining the US for rail road opportunities as envisioned by California Mexican governor turned US governor Ramouldo Pacheco and Leland Stanford. Then you had Cristabol Aguilar the 10th mayor of Los Angeles who got Los Angeles its water rights which allowed southern part of california to sprawl.
California’s not bad. Oregons wetter, and better
Unfortunately, things have changed here in Italy too, for some years we have had drought and the death of glaciers unfortunately.
I have 4 water barrels to collect rainwater that flows off my roof. And I don't water my small front yard lawn. It turns brown during the dry season and green during the rainy season.
Congratulations Mary Jane! I'm from Italy too and I'm working in Turkiye I can understand how much energy you have put in learning English to get this level of skills. I have been studying and practicing as well for almost 10 years but my vocabulary it's not "large" like yours anyway from you today I have learned "take it with a pinch of salt". Grazie.
Lorenzo.
You learnt Turkish or English while working in Turkey?
I learnt English in Italy and I spent long time in grammar roule studying like you but I could switch when I had the opportunity to work with native speakers. I have never been in USA and I really would like. What do you suggest to vist for first time? (max 2 weeks). I'm watching your video about the ecosystem stability and I found them really interesting. Cheers.
@@lollotop7468 I wouldn’t really know what to suggest, based on what should I? The only info you give me about your interests is about ecosystems: based on this I would suggest you to fly to San Francisco, rent a car and drive North for on the highway 1 of California to Oregon and Washington state, stopping at National parks.
@@WhatashameMaryJane I like Los Angeles and Sacramento I was in California around the same time as u but I was homeless
Another amazing video, greetings
The corporations/farms are draining most of the water. Reducing water consumption by the regular population won't fix the issue unfortunately.
Hey Mary Jane, I think you are an excellent observer. You notice all sorts of interesting elements.
Thank you Durs. I've been lucky enough to have an excellent education.
@@WhatashameMaryJane I traveled far all the way from Los Angeles to Seattle Washington that's far. Washington is for hippy people but I was on a hill when I stayed in Tacoma. It was cold but I like Massachusetts
@@WhatashameMaryJane I left nyc also I like New England to visit
MJ! Go To The Napa Valley And Enjoy The Wines!
Los Angeles is the one with water issues. San Francisco is slightly higher in Elevation so gets more rain and its in a weird part of California where it rains a lot. Los Angeles is much lower in Elevation and just literally over the mountain range is the Mojave wasteland. The entire city of LA is one giant Rain shadow as rain gets trapped on one side of the mountain it never rains on the other. Its rare that LA ever gets rain but if it does basically the entire city is turned into chaos as the entire city never built anything to hold water or direct its flow let alone they haven't even built anything for flooding.
I live in Florida where Rain is Guaranteed every afternoon. its like whatever rain and lightning ok sit for five minutes ok rain's done. its that quick. honestly if its sunny for 8 hours straight then you are lucky.
General American Geographies. The Missouri, Ohio, Mississippi River systems drain 2/3 of the US. The Ogallala Aquifier is a huge underground lake beneath 8 states in the Plains and are the irrigation source for the Great Plains. Take an elevator shaft down 600' to the Salt Mines at Hill City, Ks. The Lakes (Powell and Mead) damming the Colorado River have dropped 150 feet or more in just over a decade. These reservoirs are the source of electric (hydroelectric turbines) and water for Las Vegas and Califorinia's Central Valley Agriculture. Colorado (the State) holds the majority of the peaks at 14,000+ elevation and this Continental Divide Area is the source for the Arkansas, Platte, Rio Grande and Colorado (river of the Grand Canyon) Rivers. Colorado is in a 20 year drought and Denver must pump in snow melt from the Western Divide for its water. The Great Plains stretch from Texas Hill Country into Manitoba, Canada and the width of Eastern Montana to parts of Minnesota or across the foothills of Denver to Kansas City, Missouri (about 800 to 608 miles across and about 1200 miles long). Mark Twain is my literary hero. A truly remarkable geographic oddity is Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado. 700 feet high sand dunes with an aquifier underneath and temperatures from 85-90 degrees F summer day to below freezing at night., bounded by semi-Alpine climate and the Sangre De Cristo Mountains. You must visit the area between Portland, Ore. and Hood River, Ore., The Columbia River Gorge. See fruit orchards, waterfalls, lavender fields, wine vinyards, Western Towns, and windsurfing. Or ride the Durango Silverton Steam Locomotive from Durango, Co to Silverton, Co and return and drive the Million Dollar Highway over 2 mountain passes an incrediby scenic and thrilling drive towards The Black Canyon of the Gunnison at Montrose, Co.
Love your American geography lessons, Dennis.
I found a RUclips video about Friuli you might like: "Friuli - Pitina: an almost forgotten traditional product | What's cookin'"
Come to Ireland Mary Jane ☘️☘️☘️
Sei sempre brava ed in più fai tutto con passione..hug limitless ❤️ dal Pigi un tuo grande fan..thanks a lot for your gorgeous english lessons...hi and hello again by Pigi..❤️
Yeah. SF is freezing in the summer from all the fog.
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You didn't go to southern California which is where I grew up! LA and SD...are my two cities where my mom relocated me a child as you know. Ps It's hotter in the south and we have a slower pace of life and we are more into marine biology or the film industry but yeah it's definitely bigger than Italy my dear ! 💃
California has unlimited water... There are many large reservoirs throughout the state to store water from snow melts.. These supply the cities and farms throughout the state.... The farms use quite a bit of water as you can imagine.. The fact that you are conscious of trying to conserve water in CA means that the state is doing a great job at educating to not waste water.. Legislature is considering paying farmers not planting crops with high water needs... Plans are in place for desalinating plants... I would like to see a manmade river or canal to bring in excess water from southern Oregon.. Everything is bigger in California... We think in grander schemes... Come back and spend more time in California...
Hi Charles. Incentives for low water need crops sounds like one of the best things to do. As opposed to manmade canals to bring in water from further regions...it would certainly be an option, but I hope it will be kept as very last resource, after you've tried everything else. The environmental impact of such a work would not go unnoticed by ecosystems of the state. I've heard that desalinating plants are at the moment very expensive and in any case require a lot of energy to work. Again, I think it is an option that should be kept as very last resource. Reducing consumption is ALWAYS the way the go in nowadays world. We're screwing it up for good unless we wake up and change our abusive habits towards natural resources.
You ain’t putting man made reservoirs and jacking our water bud. Dream on. I’ll vote with everything I got to keep wasteful glutton California from snatching Oregons cool clean water.
@@KavaKavana We have already dammed up the Colorado River and keeping the water from reaching Mexico... We have already built man made canals and reservoirs (i.e. Hoover Dam) to divert water from the Colorado River to reach Los Angeles... The Colorado aqueducts currently supplies more than half of Los Angeles water... Lake Mead and Lake Powell supplies water to California.... It is only a matter of time before we built aqueducts to supply excess water from Oregon to Northern California.... :) What a dame Mary Jane is from Europe so I totally understand that she isn't aware of the water situation here in the West.... Americans, however, should know a little more... ignorance is bliss... :) :)
@@charlesdang4670 Sorry but that's horrible. Especially the way you're describing the situation, with pride and arrogance. In a few years you'll realize you were responsible for huge environmental disasters that will bring to wars among people. Unfortunately, ignorance is bliss only for the ignorants themselves.
Brava
I agree on the friendliness of the americans: there is a huge difference between US citizens: sanfranciscans and newyorkers, for example. I've made a lot of conversation with absolutely unknown people in San Francisco...and no conversation at all in New York. Also people is really different: warm, smiling and helpful in San Francisco, while cold, serious and selfish in New York. They are two different worlds. For my personal experience, there is no one like irish people about hospitality (obviously outside of Italy ;-)
Not all New Yorkers are selfish!
@@tony664 i hope so...ahahahah
chissà come ritieni la "friendliness" del friulano medio rispetto ad altre popolazioni... me lo chiedo da abitante di Udine (ormai da diversi anni) ma originario Milanese.
Ciao! Non ho mai vissuto a Milano ma ci sono stata moltissime volte. Il friulano medio è più chiuso perché contadino o montanaro, ma se gli dai un po' di tempo e ti dimostri una persona onesta ti tratta come un fratello. A Milano mi sembra che il discorso sia diverso: gente di città quindi più aperta a sconosciuti di primo acchito, ma non amichevoli né all'inizio né poi...
California 😍 vai a Pasadena bello
You make valid observations. I lived in San Francisco for 2 years, Santa Clarita for 3. People are much more conscious of water consumption in California than in the Pacific Northwest which has the third highest rainfall in the country (Hawaii has the highest, second highest is Alaska). In the PNW, and in California, there are many micro-climates. For example, in Port Townsend, WA the average annual rainfall is 23 inches (59cm) and 100 miles (161km) away in Forks, WA it's 110 inches (279cm). The redwoods in California didn't grow that tall in a desert, likewise for the trees in the PNW. The current drought in California is attributed to climate change.
I wonder if that happiness is why they call it la-la land?
When in San Francisco, wear multiple thin layers of clothing.
Good advice!
To be honest Californians are kinda of a bit elitist and has been under this Silicon Valley & Silicon Beach Statewide or Monaco Statewide boom for the last two decades as the more educated and wealthier move in while the non college grads and middle class moves out in search of cheap homes. Walk around Palo Alto, CA or Riverside, CA and youll see where the rest of California is going with new and old buildings revamped for the ever growing wealthy clients moving here. Main factors is everyone is now going to College in California more than ever and the state is getting people from other states and countries. When the California High Speed Rail completes expect Silicon Valley to spread to Fresno, CA
Silicon Valley in NorCal San Francisco/San Mateo County/San Jose (HQs= Apple, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Zoom, Lucid Motors)
Silicon Beach in SoCal Los Angeles/Orange County/ San Diego (HQs = SpaceX, Snapchat, Relativity Space, Hulu, Disney)
Untitled Tech Hub in CenCal Fresno, CA
True Californians will never run out of drinking water. The reality is just the agriculture CenCal/Central California food crops will dwindle down over time as it uses around over 80% of the states fresh water. Californians will just have to pay for more food overseas by importing similar to what Dubai does or grow food via cellular agriculture as shown by Kimbal Musk or even eat more seafood lol.
That's exactly what I'm afraid of. It's not a sustainable model and it's extremely elitist. Take from the poor to feed the rich.
hi ciao
Central tx is not friendly. Very antisocial. Its creepy to do that here
Los Angeles has even more micro climates, you should have visited instead of spending all of your time in SF
NYC unfriendlinest people. Boston: Hold my Sam Adams! My vote is Boston. They don't call them massholes for nothing!
Cali doesnt have water problem, I think you are thinking of LA..
Central valley and southern California have water problem
dont pretend homelessness isnsnt an issue there
Who, me? This is a video about what surprised me about California, not about its issues. I already knew homelessness is a big issue there.
@@WhatashameMaryJane okay, im just pointing out the elefant in the room - homelessnes. but its your chanell and your content so you do you. thnaks for replaying altho you didnt have to
Its because they're all stoned "mary jane." 😂
Американцы радуются молодой красивой девушке ;) Так что мнение самой такой девушки - глубоко ошибочное ;) как и в любой другой стране.
Verwechsele nicht Meinungen mit Fakten. Wenn du nur glaubst, bist du verloren ;)
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