California is About to Dump 114 Billion Gallons of Water into the Ocean | Geoff Vanden Heuvel
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- "The California we know today is really only possible because we move water around-moving water from areas of abundance to areas of need, literally causing the desert to bloom," says Geoff Vanden Heuvel, Director of Regulatory and Economic Affairs at Milk Producers Council.
Siyamak sits down with Geoff Vanden Heuvel, who will explain why this water release may have little impact on the Delta smelt and what it means for the rest of California.
"We really cannot afford to waste water in the state. We have to make sure that when we dedicate water to the environment, it does good and protects the environment. We absolutely want to do that and have an obligation to do so, but we must maximize the amount of water we store in wet years so we have it in the dry years," says Vanden Heuvel.
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I personally grew up here in the southern part of the valley. I've worked for an agriculture water district for 27 years and experience the water problem daily. Naturally this is a very dry area with little rain fall, normal snow in the Sierra's is what keep us going here at and housing together. Our government has created, through poor decisions more of a drought in these dryer areas and I believe we as Californian's should all learn how this works and address it better. I'm just a simple man and live and work in this industry and can see that bad politics are destroying the valley. Great video hope it reaches the right people thank you for the hard work putting these California issues out there.
LA stole the area water from east Sierra watershed taking away the people of Bishop and Owen Valley’s water resource which destroyed their watershed creating dry mono lake and owens valley. Criminal what they did.
Alinsky-speak drivel
@@pattilemonhouse7911 Alinsky? Thats not even the case. LA bought up the water rights surreptitiously and the people of the Owens valley lost the court fights over that.
Why water. Rain barrel.
They know exactly what they’re doing. They don’t have a drought crisis if they don’t dump all the water into the ocean.
In order for salmon to spawn, they need water to flow to the river. Right now is when the fall run chinooks are headed up river... and guess what they need to do that? Fact is, newsom has shipped water to the desert for almonds and screwed the salmon of precious water that they need to get up river so they can spawn. 2023 and 2024 saw salmon season shutdown in California because the number of salmon returning up river were too low the previous years. Salmon need water. Fishermen need salmon. Landings need salmon. Coastal communities need salmon. There's a lot of money that goes to harbors and towns that have a harbor where people can salmon fish. No water, no salmon. You can't just say stop sending the water to the ocean.
@GLOXTIC
And they could have collected more tax from the economic activities enabled by those water. This decision cannot be made out of ignorance, incompetence or irresponsiblily. It can only be made out of malice.
there is a resivior in santacruz mountains the city wanted a desalination plant so they drained the reservoir for a photo shoot and a news crew interview of the head of the water district in front of the half full resivior lol
There is nothing news. It just California has too much water overflow as often released at wet lands now to the ocean.
It's treason and its meant to destroy our nation.
I'm glad he addressed the importance of recharging the water table through flooding of fields. For so many years people were clamoring against flood irrigation and most farmers switched to drip irrigation, but little did everyone know that the flood irrigation was not only watering the crops but also recharging the water table.
This suggestion is likely impractical although might make sense at first. Water seeping into the ground is natural filtration but takes months or years. In the meantime the ground is flooded so unavailable for agriculture. Water is lost to evaporation.
After analysis, most landowners wouldn't want to do that 😊
@@tonysu8860Not to mention, in the process you'd strip the soil of all the plant available (water soluble) nutrients
The truth part was our gov purposefully wasting our water supplies... this part your talking about is the propaganda for you to buy that there is a purpose for wasting the people's water supplies when in reality this view you that you and the channel are presenting regarding a beneficial purpose for wasting our water is blasphemy and straight out deception and dis information.
Close the flood gates to complete wasteful water drainages AND stop dumping human and life (chemical retardants) into the mountain river drainage.
They’ve been doing it for years it’s nothing new. California’s droughts are man made. Poor water management, never update & repair dams and prioritizing the delta smelt over Californians.
THere used to be a lake by bakersfield. They took the water from the rivers, then pumped it out of the ground. Killed california.
What about the salmon? They need water to return up river to spawn, and water to allow the fry to make it to the ocean. Low numbers of returning salmon mean no salmon season the following year... and guess what? Salmon season was shutdown in California in 2023 and 2024 due to the water mismanagement of newsom. Not enough water going to the ocean. It's more then just smelt. Towns from Central Coast of California to northern California need salmon to help with the economy. No water, no salmon. You can't just say stop sending water to the ocean.
Exactly
I was Born in NorCal 70 years ago, droughts to flooding is a normal cycle of Ca, problem is, the last two centuries have been abnormally wet.
Fact is, 4000 years ago the State had suffered a 400 year drought, and man had nothing to do with it.
Don't let Marxist politics cloud the truth, the left wants power over water which means power over people, while the Right wants it for farming/capitalism and rural life, the trick is finding balance.
Nucelinni is the Marxist who wants control over both sides of the spectrum. The Smelt was a created lie, fact is, the Bay Area simply hated the smell in the summer months and needed an excuse to keep cold water running to control the stagnation.
The left jumped on the bandwagon and here we are today, battling over a false environment in the Bay, it always stagnated and stunk, much like the city streets do today thanks to Marxist policies.
@@Seppy54 like everything else people ignorantly call it poor management!
No new water storage for decades but building new homes and commercial businesses like mad. Major disconnect.
Water most important of all.
If the government did not dump the water there would be no water problems and we can't have that.
You are a great interviewer Siyamak. Please continue to keep this show in a moderate direction. Adults are desperate for honest and truthful information and insights from all relevant perspectives. Thank you
When I was a kid in the 1960's, I lived in the San Fernando valley. We were just south of the railroad tracks. I could cross the tracks to the north and walk all day though the orange groves. It was an amazing time.
one of my hippie teachers once told me about the wild parties you all used to have out in the orange groves back then !!!
LA needs to create salt water treatment plants and stop taking water from eastern Sierra watersheds.
No, water needs to be managed correctly.
they did ! in santa barbra they built somthing like $100 million doller state of the art facility...completed it ...enviromentalist stopped them from turning it on... sat there for years totaly ready..& never used. they sold it to saudi arabia for pennys on the doller....
@@juliebaker2221 Do what Israel has done. Treat salt water. RO, etc.
Israel uses water pipelines.
That is really great work in there. Thank you Mr. Geoff Vanden Heuve for your hard work.
Born, raised and curret Tulare Ca. Resident here, Vote Republican in Cali 2024!
We were in drought for years and now just let it all go 😂
The controllers want to see humanity at it's lowest... AT ALL COSTS
Some places try to ban rain barrels....while Gavin Gruesome is just dumping it? its insane.
@@mansharker8 Rain barrel ban? You have to be joking! Now they don't want you to capture water for your own garden or whatever?
@@charlesbosse9669 yeah, apparently it's government property, so you can't collect it.
@@mansharker8 Asian countries encourage rain barrel.
No city in California bans rain collection for residential use, you people really should use google, before making statements you know nothing about.
Gavin... Go away...
We need to drag him away
Gotta love Newsom's admin, doin everything to screw California over.
And he wants to be president 😢
Vote blue get screwed
This Gov has got to be Voted the F out of here !
Voters have had that chance twice and I believe rigged elections have kept him in. Now he’ll term out. He’s absolutely awful! 😩
Gavin nuisance is an actual Demon in human flesh 🤬
Yes he is.
Yes, the evil one is known by many names and Gavin Nuisance is one of them.
Vote Republican and end this inefficient insanity
Were you born yesterday?
This is ridiculous. I bought a small lot 2 years ago and still don’t have water meter because of drought crisis and they want release water in the ocean 👍
Rain barrel. Illegal in USA. Asian countries encourage it.
It sounds crazy to throw away good water. With so many areas that needs water. Now and in the Future. Not only in California there are some neighboring states that are short on water. Ship water by tankers. Sell it for profit
Don’t applaud Maholand, he destroyed the Eastern Sierra communities, and LA just wasted it
Absolutely. This dude has an agenda probably wants to sell water to la like everyone else
WTF??? what the hell is worng with Gov. Nuisance. Dump all this water and put us on water rationing.
You can't just say stop sending the water to the ocean. Salmon need water. The delta needs water to flow out so there isn't saltwater intrusion up river. Salmon are a big money maker for coastal towns. But people just think water is wasted because it goes to the ocean. That is not true.
@@tekomega3454literally no one said that🤦
So called “Drought” every year is a cash cow for these thugs! They don’t want to fix it or do what’s right for the state
@@tysupply8408 and yet so many seem upset water is going to the ocean.
Listen to the show, it doesn't benefit the fish much because they're not spawning during the water months. It's stupid dumping it back into the ocean!
I live in Riverside CA. in Southern CA. The Santa Ana River runs right through our city. My mother in law says when she was growing up (she's in her 70's now), she and her siblings/friends used to float on tube's down the Santa Ana River on tubes and it was full of water. That River is now a very small trickle like a stream. You can hardly see water when driving over a bridge.
What they should do is send it to Arizona or Nevada they are wasting water those states should have.
@@poetmaggie1 I live in Arizona and we are second in the world only surpassed by Israel in water management, people like to think we haven’t always realized a large part of the state was not only very dry but also one of the hottest places in the world, the Hohokam have literally been managing water out here for thousands of years, Nevada does a great job as well…you always hear about how Vegas recycles all of its water which is why they have all those fancy fountains, this is a CALIFORNIA problem, but if y’all are giving away water for free then I’d be happy if Arizona took it lol can never have enough water in the southwest…
All true. Rain barrel.
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Don't let planning for the next drought get in the way of dumping water.
Since we have droughts, why do we have golf courses. It's a large waste of water for only a game. Giving water to golf courses while limiting people's water use is classwarfare
@@Lucy-ec4pt What about all lawns.
@vernalford2352 OK what about them, their not necessary. And whe comes to usage what about fires wouldn't you like to have enough water to put them out, I would!
I can see lake shasta being drained right now!!! It’s insane - it goes to the ocean. 😡
we have food crops !
They just want us to die.
OMG! Thank you for sharing this story. I wasn’t aware of the politics behind water
Newsom could use his influence to get the Sites Reservoir Project expedited.
Yeah water in California is so desperately short the small individual Farmers have a curtailment order cutting off all of their water to grow food crops, so let's dump billions of gallons into the ocean
Over drawing causes the soil to compact decreasing space in the sediment reducing water table storage capability.
Great discussion, thanks!
ABSOLUTELY wasting water!!
Rain barrel. Asian countries encourage it. USA illegal.
This is exactly what TRUMP was talking about!!!!!!! Wake up people!!!!!!!!!
To thee Enviornment AND THE FARMERS !
Man made droughts go figure
"Imagine that. The middle of a drought and the Water Commissioner drowns."
What about Wonderful corp controlling the San Joaquin valley water table? Newscum gave them the control. The State water board is in Wonderful’s office!
Abundant water is the hallmark of prosperity, socialism relies on scarcity and cohersive state powers
Great job! Thank you!
They are doing the same in San Diego, claiming it wasn't designed to hold so much water so release it away.
Very interesting and informative presentation.
True... it was sponsored and recommended but it IS informative... I was surprised so much truth was shared
Thank you Geoffrey VandenHeuvel. 🏆
Term limits would change this corrupt system
Tulare lake should be a reservoir it’s a natural watershed lake
I’m against greed, and all about sharing, but we have a known history of drought and thus need to conserve as much water as we can. This just seems foolish to me especially since we are taking from other regions.
ONE hundred and fourteen BILLION?! Fuuuuuuuh' k ... are you for real! thats unacceptable and ridiculous 🙀
What do people care about a bait fish if the people don’t exist? You DO see the logic… right?
And still building thousands of new houses that all need a water meter.
What happened to the California Climate Crisis?,,remember? no more wet weather,,hot summer all year? (big-lie)
Right and fracking no longer causes climate change.
Its easy to control the people when you control the water supply
Chinese call California the Golden Mountain.
The Delta Smelt is not even a native fish. This whole water issue is a scam.
@@tomedgar4375 then don't think of the smelt. Think about the salmon and their need for water.
@@tekomega3454 typical Alinsky-speak drivel
Where do you find that the smelt are not native? Everything I’ve read says they are.
@@nickbono8
It was part of the discovery in the lawsuit limiting water to the aqueduct. News media never reported it but when are they interested in the truth.
@@tekomega3454
The salmon are more endangered by native tribes being allowed to fish with modern nets that allow very few to pass upstream for spawning but no one addresses the emperor with no clothes.
“Gavin Newsom, stop wasting our dam water” -- signs on the 5
Didn't we have 'record rains and snowfall' over the last 2 winters? Dams overflowing and spilling over, women and childrens lives in jeopardy? What happened?!? Did the delta smelt drink it all? Never seen one in person, is it a who smelt it dealt it scenario, or more of an insidious cash grab by the state (yet again)?
I worked in Ag in the Central Valley for over a decade. They used water like a weapon. The waste was awful. I left in
disgust at what I was ordered to do as per wasting in years they didn't need their annual allotment. They cry about water not being there some dry years due to cutbacks. Waste it during wet years when there's plenty, due to the use it or lose it doctrine.
When they sucked all the water from the Owens Valley I guess the human species wasn't worth protecting?
Considering what we have learned over the last year about the lack of our state collecting or seeking up-to-date real life numbers of wildlife (ie: bear, mtn lion, others) within our state, I wonder the actual counts that have been done in regards to the smelt & salmon? I know salmon tends to be an important topic for many reasons, so it’s much more likely the counts are done regularly, but how often are they actually doing counts of the delta smelt? I’m always surprised whenever I’m reading about wildlife on the state website, that the data listed is from 10 or more years ago or the info is not from actual counts but from estimations based on counts done a decade or more ago. If a species is endangered, one would think it of great importance to keep a constant physical count of said species…? Especially one that causes a huge shift of such valuable resources such as fresh water. Thank you for the info. Important for all the state’s citizens to know what the govt agencies are doing.
In Orange County CA they monitor the pumping wells to not take too much from the aquafier. Last year MWD a wholesaler wanted to limit water.
Great guest!
Regardless of how Calif moves water around and the need for water to utilize, the truth is, we need to preserve our Delta!
The wisdom so to speak of nature's ecology cannot be replaced. Get some experts on to teach about that instead of almost pandering to the scaremongers. We need river water into the seas just to keep our shoreline and beach integrity. We need the intertidal area where freshwater and saltwater mix. We need nature's way of mitigating floods. The smelt feed the bigger fish which ties to ocean health and is a human food source and significant protein. The SE states all but obliterated their mangrove swamps and then realized too late how effective they were with flooding. We need to do more with urban interface to greatly reduce pollution run off. Policymakers and Californians need to keep a percentage of wild and freeflowing waters.
We have much to learn. But interrupting the moisture cycle will also just make it hotter and diminish nature's atmospheric uptake and replenshment of cooling and precipitation to replenish the rivers and aquafirs.
he's a member of the MPC ... why don't you work for a middle ground. his interests are only aligned with dairy farmers. I'm not totally disagreeing with him .. but maybe instead of asking the general populace who only uses about 10 % of the water to cut their water usage. maybe the ag and industrial users should be making more cuts or build/ grow in areas that are more conductive for these industries and uses vs agro and industrial development in drought prone desert areas requiring massive amounts of irrigation and well pumping.
Funny thing is, before any dam was built all that water went into the Central Valley. Using it for farming on that land where the water normally went makes sense.
They have been doing this for decades. They built those via ducts for rainwater that dumps into ocean instead of trying to save it with lakes, storage towers, or anything
Not surprised
The Gov is not concerned about the environment or the well being of the people
Rain barrel. Asian countries encourage it. USA illegal.
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How dare they don’t let us farm this is so annoying
WHO VOTES FOR NEWSOME??????????
Nobody!!!!!!
His Aunt Nancy
Seems each state is either competing to see who can be the best state, or the worst state... congrats on your win for the worst state spot..
CA uses water for political leverage
This is madness
Pure unadulterated Insanity.
This is californias way of shorting farming
What an atrocity to let go of so much of what we need... what a shame , truth of the saying there is money to be made in an emergency... there's no emergency if we have a reserve of water..
All by design. This is a crime.
Instead of building an aqueduct from Owens Valley all the way to the coast; just settle and live in Owens Valley. You can still have port facility in LA. Instead of having agriculture in California, just leave it all in the Mississippi River Basin. You know it is like one of the largest, most fertile regions on the planet with plenty of water resources that is very difficult to deplete.
@MbisonBalrog no kidding. Such a crime what has happened to Owens. I'd love some Tinnemaha grapes.
California on average has been building 3 unit properties per 1 single for years. The consumption and usage is through the roof.
We do this in new mexico with the rio grande for a minnow that's lived through worse droughts than this
People waste water. People think it's unlimited and don't care.
Gavin is a traitor...
Very cool
You need to do a segment how California is chasing out chevron & suing them for climate change.
Man made drought!!!
Donate the water to Flint Michigan instead.
I wonder whether desalination is actually as cost prohibitive as we are being told ...
This guy doesn’t seem trustworthy
written a letter? How about a lawsuit? 😡
Save the water
113 billion gallons is 30 acre feet or .5% of total annual use.
Newsom's admin is very smart, said no one. Posting two critical comments in case one gets auto deleted.
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Kern county has recharge ponds throughout the area.
Everything is ready to go regarding the auburn dam. It would not affect the salmon run. Dams already exist below it. Would produce many megawatts of carbon free electricity. Also no mention of desalination projects. These are killed by the costal commission. This guy’s only solution is to reduce use.
We need the Auburn dam
Can the gov just build a giant pool somewhere over the desert
Send it east to Arizona and New Mexico.
The USSR government AKA united nations sustainable development that moved into California during the GORVACHEV, and Arnold Schwarzenegger needs to go.
Yes California wastes a lot of water. Rather than the government restrict its people on water usage on their property. How 'bout government gets off their behind and get our public servants @ the water and power co. to do their job right and set the timers for the sprinklers that water our public parks, sidewalks grass areas and public buildings for a shorter time. And fix any water leaks. That would help greatly on conserving water. But public servants only worry about their direct deposit being in their bank account. 'Nuff said.
I agree with making sure maintenance is done. I’ve seen so many broken sprinklers through drought that I personally have been the one to call in.
It's not the sprinklers.
This channel continues to propagate anti California policy based on ignorance in most cases. Very few videos in this channel do more than complain and criticize and none offer truly useful information that supports a realistic alternative that could promise a stronger California.
In this video, a difficult and moderately complex problem of water management is boiled down to a simplistic problem of directing excess water to the sea instead of retaining to address possible future drought. This simplistic characterization in the year 2024 comes after nearly 2 years of miracle storms that filled every major reservoir without exception in the state to 100% capacity. In the weeks immediately following achieving that remarkable threshold, most reservoirs discharged enough water to bring their levels down to about 85%. This was for two important reasons, reservoirs do more that hold potable water for irrigation and drinking, they are also critical means to control flooding and related destruction, besides supporting sustained river habitat for both the ecology and recreation.
If the state saved every drop of rainwater and kept reservoirs as full as possible, you'd be seeing what is happening annually and currently in China where Dan's are failing due to pressures that exceed designs and more. You see massive uncontrolled flooding and destruction because dam capacities are exceeded and there is no alternative than to just let the water flow.
If California wants to avoid these stark choices, the third alternative is to repair and upgrade existing Dan's and build new but as if today California is not willing to divert funds to build Dan's that could take about a decade to complete.
And dams don't necessarily restore ground water and water tables. Unless California is willing to return the massive San Joaquin Valley to one of the largest lakes of the world and Diego agriculture for at least a generation, we may never again see the underground water table restored to what it was before the recent drought.
These are all issues critical to this topic that were ignored in this video that have to be addressed in any serious discussion and not limited to the described petition.
And just as an aside, that comment about San Diego water resources is very misleading. Through every day of the drought, every local reservoir was kept full, presumably to guard against emergency need and wouldn't have been drawn upon unless all other sources failed
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So wee still choose to waste water to the ocean while in a fire season why not sell the water to other states...