In all of these drought articles, I hear nothing about actually correcting the problem. The problem is the turning of wild lands to deserts and the turning of wild lands to roads and homes. This includes turn our cities and home properties into local food forests. If you go back and re-wild the wild places, and re-plant the land that has been laid and left bare, you will get back the moisture absorbing sponge/properties that is the soil and top soil. This sponge is responsible for creating a micro-climate in your areas which would over time contribute to more rain overall. Just going and grabbing and holding all water is not going to help, you would be taking a lot of water that the soil over all needs. We need a living soil again that holds carbon and moisture. Read up on it! Its called retrofitting and restoring the land using permaculture principles.
Right?!? We see a “farmer”standing in front of his degraded, exposed, lifeless soil complaining about not having enough water to continue the exploitative processes of industrial agriculture. It’s not a good sign when people are pushed to the brink and still don’t seem to even consider changing course.
Trying to fix micro-climate is pointless when the macro-climate has gotten all whacked out of recognition. A hotter planet means the atmospheric conditions needed to bring moisture to the region in the winter aren’t in-place anymore. Instead the precipitation gets dumped all at once over the seas, nearer the equator as tropical monsoons and cyclones. The same mechanisms also exacerbate those so-called Polar Vortices in the winter, this time dumping more snow in already wet areas inland, instead of over the drier areas by the western coasts.
@@ainabearfarm8075 so true, but we are all slaves, the farmers dont even own the land they worl on they are Just slaves to Machine corpartaions and chmeical companies, they have no say snd if they refuse they lose it all, but eventually we will lose it all anyways.
I was driving through s.california they are growing fields of flowers instead of food! Grapes for wine ! Instead of food. They water the golf course! What do they expect?
Homeowners need to get rid of their USELESS, thirsty lawns and start growing some of their own food with the space they take for granted. Self sufficiency is never a bad thing. Sadly apartment dwellers can't do much.
Grass lawns are an American staple of a family home. "It looks beautiful!", "My children can't play in the yard with no grass!". I personally believe gravel yards can be just as pretty, plant some desert shrubs here and there. Plus kids can wear this thing called shoes.
Residential water use accounts for only 13% of the total water used in Ca. (And they want us to conserve)? Yet industrial & farming who make profits & export their goods around the world get to use as much as they want.
How to resolve this issue 1. Cloud seeding this is emergency situation and should be done 🚨 2. Using dehumidifier let’s states in the drought provide there people with dehumidifier gets moisture out of the air water gose thru filter and the water is usable drinkable and you can do anything with that water 3. maybe get water trucks from different state of USA with no drought to bring the water and try to refill the lake or use the water trucks to bring to emergency shelters like Red Cross
We were warned in 1879 but no one wanted to listen. The West without Water: What Can Past Droughts Tell Us About Tomorrow? (Ohio State University) As bad and worrisome as these more recent historical droughts in California and the West were, they pale in comparison to events uncovered in the geological record. A glance into the history of the Southwest reminds us that the climate and rainfall patterns have varied tremendously over time, with stretches of drought many decades longer than the one we are experiencing now. Long dry stretches during the Medieval centuries (especially between 900 and 1350 CE) had dramatic effects on the native peoples of the Southwest (the ancestral Pueblo, Hohokam, and Sinagua), including civilizational collapse, violence, malnutrition, and forced social dislocation. These earlier Americans are a warning to us. The past 150 years, which we have used as our baseline for assumptions about rainfall patterns, water availability for agriculture, water laws, and infrastructure planning, may in fact be an unusually wet period. Powell published his Report On The Lands Of The Arid Regions of the United States [1879], a careful assessment of the region’s capacity to be developed. In it, Powell argued that very little of the West could sustain agriculture. In fact, his calculations suggested that even if all the water in western streams were harnessed, only a tiny fraction of the land could be irrigated. When Powell presented his findings to Congress, politicians howled. Powell found himself denounced by pro-development forces, including railroads and agricultural interests. Prescient as Powell’s study has proved to be, it was almost entirely ignored at the time.
Restoring the dried out Tulare Lake in southern San Joaquin valley would create a lake effect bringing more rain. Cotten farmers drained a large lake in the valley to turn it into fields. Removing a lake dried the weather out further.
At this point, with all that herbicide sprayed on that soil, restoring that lake may cause another poisonous lake like the Salton sea. But your right California shot itself in the foot by draining that lake.
@@glovenchkirielen4229 California created the Salton Sea artificially so it can be done. There’s many issues like pollution and land owners so it would be very difficult to get it to work out well.
we're going to have to move the majority of American agriculture...to somewhere else in the US. CA is not suited for being responsible for growing 2/3 our produce anymore. Ideally, we should redistribute our agriculture across larger areas so if one area gets messed up, we still have the other areas that grow.
What’s the point of that if every person is just going to pretend drought sand climate change doesn’t exist? We have morons thinking “great farmers produce soil “ without even knowing the entire biology of soil. The only time these people wanna throw in “organic” is whenever drought and climate is brought up in agriculture lol. People like that don’t care
The agriculture that's in California is there because the climate is suitable. If there were other areas with a Mediterranean climate they'd be in use already. It's not a starvation issue, there's plenty of available food, it just may not be what some people are used to eating.
We're so used to taking the land for granted and getting whatever we want whenever we want. The wake-up call is painful and the crash back down to reality will be even more so. It's time to live within our means, y'all.
This is exactly the problem. Nothing is done to keep the soil healthy. The farmers have gone to drip systems due to lack of water. No effort has been made to protect the soil.
I live in Northern California this is a warning there will be a major food shortages this year due to droughts in California the farmers of Northern California do not have the water necessary to grow enough food this year. Yes they can grow a few things, but it will not be anything major rice, beans, the corn used to make ethanol and animal feed, many varieties of nuts and legumes and even tomatoes anything that uses any of these products most likely will not be in stores come this next winter and whatever we will grow will be stunted due to the lack of water. We had a cold snap come through the week prior that damaged a good portion of nut orchards in the surrounding counties along with ours. Roughly %50 of our fields in my county alone are fallow this coming growing season. My county is the top producer for rice and beans in California, typically anywhere between 3-6 months for rice packaging season, we will be lucky if we have even a months packaging. It doesn't help though that deals the farmers and the government have made leads to a good portion of our rice actually gets sent over to Asia annually. Pardon the use of the word county so many times. in the end the United States could be self-sufficient and keeping our produce and our agriculture goods only here in the United States the fact that the government and the farmers are willing to sell out of the country the goods that are supposed to stay here and bolster our own economy and people is a reprehensible act. Not to mention when there is shortages of food in the drought happening the only people that really suffer are the common folk out here not the farmers. No the farmers all get subsidies and insurance payouts from the government even if they produce some products.
@kevin Ironside Exactly! I can only hope, as I'm renting from a renter, and will have to move again soon in this terrible housing market. Doesn't give me much opportunity to garden anything. This situation is going to impact people like me even harder. So, I'm voting in June & November like my life depends on it.
@kevin Ironside The soil is so depleted of minerals that even if you know how to grow your own food it will be lacking in nutrients. Steve Solomon talks all about it in his books. He farmed in Oregon and ate 70% from what he grew. His teeth started to fall out.
If you are still growing a grass lawn then you will be part of the population that will starve to death in 5 years. You need to grow food on your lawn, not grass
Blame California’s government. Stop allowing businesses to use water for free... seriously - if there’s a cost people will use it more efficiently. Nobody would ever invest in hydroponics, or any efficiency measures when water is artificially free.
Parts of the Central Valley have subsided 6-8 feet due to extraction of ground water 💦. California has been on notice for years about the need to recharge and capture better.
Yes I grew up in the Salinas Valley Carmel Valley on a ranch. We knew this was coming in the 1980s. Crazy Nothing was done but to keep pretending it wasn't happening. Santa Cruz was the last place I lived and we had Extremely strict water usage policies in the early 1990s. Permaculturre practices and rainwater capture must be deployed now. And a morritorium on building new developments when there is no water for them across the SW and PNW. We are climate change refugees. Increasing heat, drought and wildfires. Left Oregon for the Midwest no housing. Climate Migration has begun. 400,000 people moved to Oregon. Rental Vacancy rate in Our county was 1.1. Average rent on an apartment with no AC or other amenities is 1200. Minimum wage is 15. No one can survive. And we already lost 10,000 plus homes to wildfires. Plus the California folks who lost their homes or moved because of drought and wildfires. Oregon will be in as bad of shape as California soon. So glad we made it out. Loving the Midwest 2 hours from Chicago. In the high 70s this week. And it rains so much the tree frogs sing in the Summer. Plus buildings are built to withstand more temperature extremes. And almost every place comes with AC.
Half the reason we left Arizona was bc it was clearly unsustainable. When I moved there in 94 the Colorado River was already maxed out and yet everywhere: golf courses! and swimming pools and retirees trying to recreate the landscaping of Connecticut around their new slump block casitas and the endless suburban creep into the surrounding desert. This region was never meant to carry this many humans, who can only survive as long as water and electricity for A/C are readily available. And if folks had any idea how janky and precarious the power grid is out there, they would be very, very concerned.
@@kevinfreeman3098 I watched a documentary about farming in California and over-use of fertilizer was a big complaint. I don't remember the technical explanation, something about phosphates and nitrogen, but using up, or burning up, the natural soil and becoming dependent on fertilizers is too expensive for profitable farming.
@@johnwattdotca You are exactly correct. The Soil Food Web by Dr. Elaine Ingham. She and her associates are going around the country re-training farmers on how to bring life back into their soil.
Even though this happens year after year, why is this a surprise to anyone? Now it has become severe, but yet, no one took the warning signs seriously? Glad to see the government taking such good care of their people here.
They’re taking good care of the farmers who don’t have to pay for water - then they wonder why everyone use up as much as possible. Why do you think California specializes in cultivating products that use absurd amounts of water? Why would anyone ever invest in hydroponics or water efficiency in general when it’s free?
The United States Needs huge amounts of Money for Infrastructure projects! New dams to prevent flooding during Rainy season and a water source for during Wildfires! The Republicans have been Cutting Funding for decades to agencies that study and recommend solutions to these problems! The Rich and Wealthy have been allowed to NOT PAY into our Tax Base that would have Funded water projects, Tree planting in the Forestry Agency, F.E.M.A that would fund Housing for Hurricane, Tornado, Flooding and wildfire Victims! Small Government to a Republican only Means That the Rich Pay O or very little Taxes while these problems are not solved! VOTE FOR DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES IN EVERY ELECTION!
@@kellibarnhouse6160 No, don't talk crazy. Democrats will be eating steak and you will be eating Bill Gate's insect wafers. Democrats, republicans both dislike you. But Democrat also want authoritarianism. So vote Republican if you have to vote.
The Republicans have Been in Control of Most of the Last 40 years, Starting with Reagan and the United States has Not done anything to Fix our Rusted out Bridges, Crumbling Dams, Broken water and Sewer pipelines! Our Area had a Major Pipe break at a water treatment plant that dumped 7 million gallons of raw sewage into one of our lakes! Guess who has run out State since the 90s? Our Republican leaders give Huge Ten Year tax breaks to Corporations and then Have raised our Property tax 45% in the last 15 years! VOTE FOR DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES IN EVERY ELECTION!
All the water from the Sacramento river just flows right into the ocean. There has not been a dam built in 50 years. There has not been any new electricity produced in over 50 years. There has not been any new refineries built in 50 years. What did you think will happen in California?
@@palace927 I'm starting to wonder with climate change and the desertification of California maybe it's time to stop giving so much to the fish. Do fish belong in the desert? It seems like an uphill battle that's not worth the fight.
We have to do things efficiently. Spain grows food inside greenhouses to maximize water usage. CA does it in open fields and floods their crops with large channels of water. This is wasteful. Time to modernize agriculture or else it's too late. Also almonds, pistachios, and alfalfa are too water dependent. Most of those are shipped overseas to China. Let's be pragmatic about what's sustainable for California's future.
Sounds good, but most CA farms are owned and operated by large corporations using up massive water and maximizing their profits. They couldn’t careless about preserving the future of CA. It’s about what they can profit today.
@@SCHMALLZZZ have you been inside one? They aren't hot houses. They are temperature regulated and are often cooled to grow a variety of plants. They are only warm in the winter to grow warm weather crops but otherwise cooler in the summer than being outdoors.
Efficiency would be ending all animal agriculture industry operations worldwide effective immediately. There is nothing efficient about basing our lives on farmed animals. It has succeeded in being the biggest monocrop this planet has ever known. We need to end all support of the animal agriculture industry worldwide effective immediately. And we need to restore the biomass of wild flora and fauna. While using Veganic Permaculture and gardening methods to heal the planet and heal and nourish ourselves. Eat plants. Plant trees.
I'm curious which state has the state government claiming the aquifer and then pumping it out of state. I've missed this one, and that is a major issue that is even worse than Saudi Arabian governmental entities purchasing extremely high water crops like alfalfa grown in Arizona ( alfalfa - desert is like fried ice cream, technically you can do it but it's still a bad idea) to export to their country. By the way did you know Saudi Arabia drained their aquifer almost completely to grow wheat. Sort of like growing rice and alfalfa in arid regions. Yet you have the problem in states like Arizona and California where the aquifers are being pumped dry by business interests, and the state has no claim to the aquifer. In fact in Arizona rural areas are being depopulated by large agribusinesses that have sunk wells over 1,000 ft causing most of the rural homesteads in the state to have their wells go dry. There is a term for pumping water that essentially cannot be replaced for centuries of not millennia, water mining. Just like removing oil or deposits, it's not going to renew within the practical lifetime of the people involved.
@kevin Ironside I thought I had a reply, but either something went wrong when I posted it or I said something the Google algorithm didn't like. To try to keep it shorter, I'll advise searching right of first capture. What it essentially says is that many resources, and that routinely includes groundwater, goes to whoever gets it out first. California was supposed to be reforming this in 2021, but I haven't followed if they actually made significant changes of close the loopholes. I do know that in many areas they are now having to pump water from 2,000 feet down, that actually comes from millions of years ago. Also as they are pumping that water they are having massive subsidence, which is damaging roads, irrigation systems, buildings, etc . Several small towns have totally lost their water sources because they can't afford to drill new wells that go down 2,000 ft. Arizona is on the same track. They now are routinely drilling 1,500 ft. In fact in many largely rural counties homeowners are being forced off their land. Their wells have gone dry, and under state law they have no recourse against the agribusinesses that have drained the aquifer below 1,000 ft. So neither of those states has claimed the groundwater, let alone shipped it to other states. Now there are states that will not let you even capture the rainwater off your roof, because that affects people with senior water rights. It was one of the western states, I cannot remember which because I am pretty settled where I am. Just for the record the dust bowl was not caused by overpumping. It was caused by plowing under grasslands, that were semi-arid, and then having one of those dry spells that put the "arid" after "semi". They didn't have either the electrical grid nor the affordable technology for pumps going that deep. At least affordably
As a Farmer in Utah, we are also facing drought conditions. The biggest threat to American Agriculture is our own government. The prices of diesel fuel costs are out of sight. This push for electric cars would devastate Agricultural industry. Can you imagine having electric tractors? The costs for farmers would crash the industry's productivity.
BS! Electric Cars would ease our oil supply and lower gas prices on gas motered engines! Solar Panels on New Home and business Construction roofs would help lower the Cost of Energy Production, Wind Power would reduce the Costs of energy Production on Farms and Ranches! Clean Energy does not completely leave out Gasoline production for the next 50 years, it just makes The Cost of Energy Cheaper!
I'm absolutely horrified that so many California farmers have not taken notice of the installed high pressure dome keeping California bone dry to serve the Geoengineering operations to keep the Ice pack covered in the far north. Each and everyday SRM Spraying aircraft can be seen off the coast of California laying down the spray media used in Geoengineering programs .the News Media and I mean all of them have been forced to play ball by signing a federal Gag order so you will not hear about the grave and actual conditions in America today they are intentionally keeping the general population ignorant and devoid of the fire circumstances in our country today...
I can see electric tractors, slower moving less ground to cover, while that doesn't fit every situation it might be 50%. Farms can have their own solar/ wind charging stations. The most common sense options would be hybrid that shifts in and out of diesel even for big trucks, with slide out battery packs like your cordless tools so some could be charging. And to clean up power plants to produce more cleaner.
It takes a crazy amount of water to grow almonds - several gallons of water to produce each almond. California can't afford to keep wasting their water on growing almonds and growing grass in people's yards. People need to replace grass with plants that can actually thrive in the desert environment.
I agree about the almonds, unfortunately most of the water that comes from the Sierras bypasses the Central Valley to go to San Francisco or LA. Since they’re right by the ocean why don’t they have water desalinization plants?
While we cannot grow almonds in Ohio. In Ohio we can grow all the corn, tomatoes and melons the US needs, and we have plenty of water here. Come to Ohio, farmers we are glad to have you here.
California as a state is facing a uncertain future. Increasing prices, homelessness, drought, desertification, and fires. Plus large amounts of California’s industries are leaving like big tech and the movie industry. And declining population 😬
It can be changed. Food industry is so busy with extracting value, they don't' think about building an ecosystem. ruclips.net/video/ITph5GJoKbA/видео.html
Grow your own food or shop local!! Most of us have lawns or outdoor space. Also start urban farming in abandoned lots, green spaces, patios, balconies, and churches.
it is a simple solution in most of CA. You just need to change a lot of laws and regulations and put thousands of desalination plants supplying all coastal areas and most the central valley
California has a bad habit of letting rich people waste water on their precious lawns and golf courses. So much water waste....and then they move out of state ready to destroy other areas when the going gets tough.
You can find descriptions of family farms from pre-WW1 up in the Great lake states that had orchards of a couple of hundred fruit trees near cities that supplied them with seasonal produce. The plants grew without irrigation, and many farms near the cities ship that fresh fruit and produce to them. The spread of all that irrigated farming west of the Mississippi actually put those smaller family farms out of business. That and other kinds of agribusiness like mega farms that produce pigs or chickens. So we turned the small sustainable farms around cities in areas with enough rain to support them, into consolidated grain producing agribusiness. They couldn't compete with the huge agribusinesses with access to artificially cheap water in many more arid states . Obviously that is now going to change. Americans are going to end up paying a fair bit more for food, and meat will become even more expensive. Maybe this can help Americans and get back to healthier farms and healthier diets.
It will come back. These farms only went away because of cheap labor and energy, and add in the competitiveNess/efficient distribution of walmart and big groceries. Now that people are going to be broke, and have time on their hands local farmers markets will thrive. I think retail dedicated to local farmers markets should be tax free, and even subsidized. The issue isn't the farmers, it's getting their products in front of retail consumers who only have time to shop after 5pm, and maybe Sundays.
Most water is used to grow food to feed livestock because humans want to eat animals. You can't say you're concerned about the water crisis if you're not vegan
Actually about 94% of water used for livestock is classified as green water. Green water is rain water that happens to fall onto the grazing fields of animals, the water is then soaked into the soil and then evaporated back into the atmosphere. It’d be the same whether or not animals are present there. In actuality animals use about as much water as crops. In the end animals are just as sustainable as normal crops
Climate change is due to growth! The way we model our societies and economies are entirely to blame for this. And we always try to "tech" our way our of every mess thinking if we just throw enough money at it we can solve any problem. Just look at how we botched the COVID pandemic. Sadly humans are collectively becoming dumber and less cooperative with each other and nature as the years pass. And time is running out. The house or cards will eventually come tumbling down hard if we keep breeding boundlessly and sucking the planet dry of it's resources.
Arizona uses less water now than it did 50 years ago despite the population being many times larger. The problem is drought and the non stop agriculture exports during the 20 years of drought,
This is what you do....change your crops for the conditions. Where there is drought you plant drought resistant plants. Also find a better way of watering crops...sprinkler systems...watering during day..it evaporates so it takes more water. Drip systems, hand watering, water bags for trees, etc. Use your imagination and build it. Invention is key
Yeah Israel grows a lot of crops in the desert using drip irrigation. Advances in drip irrigation was spurred by charging full price for water. California could shift to a lot more mariculture growing oysters, clams, muscles, kelp, and seaweed in the ocean.
This has now court up with all of the US, and it's time for you guys to now FINALLY invest in repairing and creating new infrustructure to help the environment. Both for yourselves and the land.
we just had a trillion dollar repair bill by biden and I have yet to see anything being worked on or fixed time for another trillion dollar repair bill
Our government is more concerned with pro-nouns and what dress they will wear to their bachelor's party. Infrastructure? More like fight the patriarchy.
We have been spoiled because water planning began during wet years and we never thought it would be as dry as it is. Now we have to try and stretch what we had over all users on the farm and in the city. The state has tried to reduce water usage by implementing new standards for faucets, shower heads, toilets and sprinklers. They have encouraged home owners to remove lawns and replace their irrigation with drip systems. In some areas they have okayed setting up grey water systems to irrigate your yard. Water districts use recycled water on landscaping. I work in one of those big box stores and in spite of the drought, which is obvious to anyone who looks, I still hear comments about having to cut back on watering and how lousy the low flow fixtures are. Well, if we had SPENT THE MONEY and implemented ways to capture and reduce water usage in the past it wouldn't be so bad now. You can complain about how much water some crops use but don't forget agriculture is BIG BUSINESS in California. In 2020 it was 55 Billion dollars which was more than 12% of total US agriculture. That's a lot of jobs directly and indirectly. We not only feed a lot of the U.S. but send our products around the world. The world isn't going to go back to what it was so we all need to pull up our big kid panties and get on with it. Whining and fighting amongst ourselves does not solve the problem. agamerica.com/blog/california-agriculture/ Sorry bout the rant but I get tired of some of the stuff in the comments.
Yes! Why did they reject the Huntington Beach desalination plant. That would really help during droughts. It might be expensive, but then it should be expensive to live in the desert with no water source.
Well a silver lining to upcoming food shortages may be that it starts to curtail the nationwide obesity epidemic. They say obesity related treatments was around $171B in 2021 alone. I always try to look at the bright side of things.
@@mpls1982 Umm, of course? Fruits and vegetables can end up as fat as they are metabolized. Yet we'd only be so optimistic they'd been eaten enough of daily. Only 1 in 10 Americans eat the recommended amounts of fruits & vegetables. So what are they eating mostly instead I wonder? Answer: Junk food and fast food followed up by soda and dessert that's what. Of course, fast food, junk food and desserts don't come directly out of the ground. No, they come from base agricultural natural products. That are then corrupted by our industrial food complex in very efficient capitalist driven processes making them both cheaper and more convenient than fruits & veg. Long story short: a food shortage will diminish all foods. But, now that you mention it, fruits & veg will be the *first* to go from people's food budgets as fast food and frozen processed is cheaper.
Blame California’s government. Stop allowing businesses to use water for free... seriously - if there’s a cost people will use it more efficiently. Nobody would ever invest in hydroponics, or any efficiency measures when water is artificially free.
Ummm I love how they push the whole climate change thing, they don't talk about the fact millions have moved to the southwest using much more water, they don't talk about letting millions walk into the country using that much more water, they don't talk about cutting down trees to out up concrete jungles that trap heat.
@Z F G. You are correct about the population moving to California over the last decades, however California population is actually in decline losing 117 K last year and this is the second year of population decline. And the claim of millions coming over the border is also an extreme exaggeration. The west has been too little too late on this issue of conserving water. The problem is set to intensify because the region has boxed itself into a corner.
Nonsense. These things are talked about all the time. Scientists have been warning us of these problems, but until our politicians make some hard decisions, we are going to be down to drinking water only. Soon.
This is so scary. I come from California even if I don't live there now. Callfornia doesn't really get any rain at all. There is even a song about it never rains in California in the summertime. That I'm sure is still true. It also doesn't rain in the spring or the fall. It only tends to rain in Dec. and Jan. So sure yes they should try to store this- rainwater when it happens--all regions should work on storing rain water as much as they can so that it doesn't evaporate. I think we need to take seriously the threat of less food at higher prices and understand that the poor in poor countries are going to d*e of famine. The sooner we see this, the sooner we can come up with real solutions.
The Population in Ca has doubled since 1970 And they haven’t built any new water infrastructure since then, Why? because it’s harmful to the environment. Relying on the snow pack as a main water source is like relying on solar panels to power your car. Let’s see how that works out.
It’s time to consider using recycled water for farming. Others countries have done this already, and is needed versus pumping it into the sea and else where.
Blame California’s government. Stop allowing businesses to use water for free... seriously - if there’s a cost people will use it more efficiently. That’s what prices are - a metric of scarcity. Nobody would ever invest in hydroponics, or any efficiency measures when water is artificially free.
1. Blame the Government in Sacramento for not building new reservoirs that can provide all the water California needs. 2. Ditto regarding desalination plants. 3. Israel is drier than California but has no water shortages. Bad California governance is the issue.
More reservoirs is DEFINITELY not the answer. There are far too many reservoirs in California and throughout the west as it is. The excessive number of reservoirs has drastically reduced native fish populations as well as negatively affecting the health of the rivers. This is about a population that has exceeded the carrying capacity of the land and has also been far too slow to take the necessary steps to conserve water. This is not just a California problem but a problem throughout the west. And it isn't just because of over population, but also climate change which is the main reason for the prolonged drought that has been going on for 22 years and is intensifying this year.
@Lloyd Jones. You are making a false comparison with Israel to the California. California is state and Israel a country. Israel receives three billion in aid from the US every year. Israel is also a fraction the size of the California with a much smaller population.
Because people laughed back in the 80 when scientists warned us. Bills to invest in clean energy gets block by oil stock owning republicans. All attempt to fix things gets gutted and blocked. Republicans never act until it threatens their pockets.
California is sitting on a $100 billion tax surplus. Is any of that money going to addressing the drought at all? Almonds and cotton require huge amounts of water. Not the right crops for this region!
@@foodiejustin557 Yup. California is a big place. If you go due east from the southeast corner of California, the first foreign country you hit is Morocco. There is your desert. But if you go due east from the northeast corner of California, the first foreign country you hit is Canada.
@@danielcarroll3358 Due East from northern California is not Canada you may have worded that wrong but still don't see you point (Lifelong California resident)
I work for a pump company and farmers wast tons of water there line leak they water when it not need they water the roads just because it dusty they really need a different watering system. but there all stuck in the past and none of them want to change there ways. all they really care about is that pay check there some of the most weathey people In the usa biggest farm land owner bill gate but there always complaining there broke and need help. What do they expect when you try to get the cheapest labor and irrigateter there are part of the water problem is the ag farmer sh#t they guys that grow pot are better at conserving water. they try to tell home owner to conserve but the ag farmer waste the most amount. Has any one seen how a well get tested that is mandatory by the state is done. people would really loose there minds if they seen how much get wasted instead of being used. There a lot behind it that no one see all you see is the people complaining and the news trying to blow it up in to a storyline with only a part of the info like as always ⛲💦👍✌️💯🤯 I also live in California
These are not your family farmers. You do not see this produce at a farmers market This is agribusiness big agro, millions of dollars. A big business that should be taxed for there needs. You have to pay property tax, you get charged for all the services you need. I am sure the CEO's of these agro businesses want the citizens to pay for the water to grow in a desert.
Did you really expect things to be okay when the water you count on is from Northern California and Northern Nevada. The water was stolen and directed to L.A, it was not meant to sustain the millions a thousands miles that did not have its own supply of water for a city basically that was dry and arid to begin with. The destruction of natural forest in the name of progress is whats leading this drought and nobody is to blame but money hungry developers who are still making millions today and people who are buying homes will find that its worthless when their will be no access to water
That soil is so bare. Clearly hasn’t been managed with regeneration in mind. No cover, little to no litter, aggregation, or biological activity. If it did rain the soil wouldn’t hold much of anything. Californias Central Valley is in trouble
@@Streghamay absolutely! a large scale conversion not only can sequester a ton of atmospheric carbon in the soil but also help to create more rainfall through transpiration. Regenerative is the only way forward
It might well be climate change and drought at this time but at what point do you refer to it as desertification? The commenter was right to mention 'new normal' but that new normal is changing fast with much more to come. This new normal is only fleeting. Each degree Celsius temperature rise means 7% more moisture in the atmosphere which is not on crops nor in reservoirs. That warming is between 1.5 times and 2.0 times as much on land per degree Celsius. Mitigation and adaptation are needed urgently that means moving from fossils even faster, divesting from fossils into renewable energy and serious investment in resilient infrastructure and public transport.
In addition to the measure you mentioned, we need to shut down all animal agriculture industry operations, as animal agriculture uses 50% of California’s water resources. But, not just here. We need to end all support of the animal agriculture industry worldwide effective immediately. And get busy restoring the biomass of wild flora and fauna, while also growing food forests using Veganic Permaculture and gardening methods, to restore our planet, and heal our relationship and balance with nature.
I've lived in San Joaquin county for 4 years now and haven't heard of any water restrictions or any issues with the supply Everyone also likes to keep their 20 ft swimming pools full 😂 Maybe it's a separate issue at hand ?
@@benjaminyoung9694 there's a Saudi Princess that's transforming a desert into an oasis after she started a permaculture project. They are not bringing in truckloads of water or having it brought in by waterlines, no they're relying on rainfall. Though some projects I've seen were given a boost by doing so in the beginning then they stopped bringing in water to watch what works and what failed.
HOW ODD I HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH SNOW FALL IN THE SIERRAS AS I DID THIS PAST WINTER BUT DID ANYONE THINK OF STORING EVERY INCH OF THAT INSTEAD OF PLOWING INTO A SEWER???!!!
Of the state really cared, the state would ban almond farming and rice paddies… we could all Live without almonds and there’s no reason to grow rice in standing water in the middle of the central Valley… this state is really good at not addressing issues and then running around worried when the chickens come home to roost
The state eliminated a significant number of almond orchards in the Central Valley of California years ago. A few still remain, but that is a fraction of what was there before. Besides global warming, the problem in California is that there are a ton of green lawns everywhere. So much water is wasted to keep the grass green in such an arid place, it is ridiculous!
Growing food like melons crops, which consume inordinate amounts of water, should be just plain banned!! Very little real sustenance except sugar which, less face it, is overly provided for from other sources!
All that soil left open to sun and heat must be terrible for the soil. This is a huge country. I don't care that you get efficiency of scale by growing all in one place; it is not sustainable. We need to grow in MANY places in this country
@@metro3692 Wow! I was in high school, working as an usher at the theater when Easy Rider came out, and know Jack Nicholson. This might be my first middle-aged moment, even if I'm a senior. Jack Nicholas might have sounded good as the pro golfer.
@@metro3692 I saw Billy Jack and was surprised when it became a huge cultural thing. Same with The Shining, seeing that as a boring movie. My modern bad movie recommendation, don't ever watch "Sling Blade".
This has been coming on for 10-20 years and to this day they haven't made golf courses or mcmansions quit using millions of gallons of water on desert ground. They build whole housing additions on these same grounds, while not stopping the oils and fracking and other things that destroy the environment.
So I guess you want to live in a tent and shoot rabbits and not wear shoes or have a computer or even a sleeping bag or clothes? Oil and fracking make your life perfect. So go ahead and live with the scorpions and snakes, let us know how it turns out with your new sunburns.
@@KB-ke3fi You put it as all or none, if you destroy the whole planet what shoes do you wear or foods do you eat. They were getting oil before fracking. A lot of things can be done to clean up, and a mass transit system can be built in areas instead of a thousand cars driving to the same place each day. Trump didn't just stop progress for four years he worked at backing it up 10-20 years.
I farm in an arid region of Southern alberta and have had to adopt minimum tillage and direct seeding into last year's crop residue in an attempt to save every drop of moisture the soil has. It works for us but not sure how it would be for California and the types of fruits and vegetables they grow. It took us millions of dollars to invest in machinery capable of working in previous years residue and a few hiccups along the way but now we can grow more abundant crops on half the rainfall we required back in the 80s. Our soil is under constant protection now from wind and rain erosion and the organic matter is now double what it was 15 years ago which means our moisture holding capacity is better as well during periods of drought.
If Israël can manage desalination for their lands, why can’t California adapt this same process here. The Guv just announced a multi-billion surplus of money...so, let’s see if we can make this happen on the Calif. coast, as in San Diego.
And where do you get the massive amounts of electricity required for desalinization plants? Burn more fossil fuels? And what do you do with all the salt brine that you can't pump back into the ocean? I smell an eco disaster if we go down that route.
@@Kurt1968 You're right. Let's import our produce from China, get rid of our dams, and take our bucket down to the stream 3x a day for our water. 21st century - figure it out.
This could be the beginning of a 500 year drought (West of the Rocky Mountains): Utah, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and California (some impact in Oregon).
@@mikehertz6507 Lake Powell and Meade disagree with you. And their water levels would be much lower except Wyoming & Colorado gave a good chunk of our precious reservoir water to keep Lake Powell from dropping another 15 feet.
@@mdb1239 Native Americans use to grow corn in the the 4 corners area thousands of years ago. Couldn't do that today. And lake Meade is a man made lake made in the 30's. You know this right?
People in Ca need to be required by law to plant a self sustaining garden instead of a lawn. And then be forced to be vegan if they choose to live in a desert. They should only eat what they are able to grow in place of there water sucking lawns.
Industrial water use needs to be re examined by every state at every level. It rain really hard every day this spring in my state but still they have water shortages. Residents are always told to cut back every time they say this but residents aren't even capable of that much waste. Only large scale industry is capable of that much wasteful activity. They're building thousands of wind farms that have very large concrete bases and also need freshwater sand to mix it. How much water does that use? How many cities and towns have outdated water treatment plants to recycle their wastewater and treat pollution problems? I can think of thousands of ways industry uses millions of gallons of water per day and yet the pressure always falls on residents to cut back, conserve, or lower their standards. Residents and homes are not where the usages peak. Someone is misrepresenting facts if they're claiming that.
In my community, which has massive agricultural capacity for CENTURIES, we've been invaded by Balfour brothers who are carving up land like a kosher Christmas ham. It's luxury housing and solar (bs) farms. Also, industrial warehouses and parks with a flood of strip malls. Why? Unlimited greed for money. They LIE to community boards and representatives about continuing agriculture and then after acquisition and various approvals they turn around and say "agriculture is DEAD on Long Island" and then do what they want. Speaking as someone who knows, agriculture was thriving and making a massive comeback until the Balfours KILLED IT. Famines are created by evil men....... NOT THE EARTH!!
In all of these drought articles, I hear nothing about actually correcting the problem. The problem is the turning of wild lands to deserts and the turning of wild lands to roads and homes. This includes turn our cities and home properties into local food forests. If you go back and re-wild the wild places, and re-plant the land that has been laid and left bare, you will get back the moisture absorbing sponge/properties that is the soil and top soil. This sponge is responsible for creating a micro-climate in your areas which would over time contribute to more rain overall. Just going and grabbing and holding all water is not going to help, you would be taking a lot of water that the soil over all needs. We need a living soil again that holds carbon and moisture. Read up on it! Its called retrofitting and restoring the land using permaculture principles.
Civilization is holocaust, there is no peace on Earth until the war machines are restored to rust.
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Right?!? We see a “farmer”standing in front of his degraded, exposed, lifeless soil complaining about not having enough water to continue the exploitative processes of industrial agriculture. It’s not a good sign when people are pushed to the brink and still don’t seem to even consider changing course.
Trying to fix micro-climate is pointless when the macro-climate has gotten all whacked out of recognition. A hotter planet means the atmospheric conditions needed to bring moisture to the region in the winter aren’t in-place anymore. Instead the precipitation gets dumped all at once over the seas, nearer the equator as tropical monsoons and cyclones. The same mechanisms also exacerbate those so-called Polar Vortices in the winter, this time dumping more snow in already wet areas inland, instead of over the drier areas by the western coasts.
@@ainabearfarm8075 so true, but we are all slaves, the farmers dont even own the land they worl on they are
Just slaves to Machine corpartaions and chmeical companies, they have no say snd if they refuse they lose it all, but eventually we will lose it all anyways.
@@Ryan_Christopher 🌬💨🌊🏭🌱
I’m no farmer but I think it’s pretty hard to grow crops in a place where there’s an inadequate water supply.
lol yea don't take nothing but a lil common sense to see that
I was driving through s.california they are growing fields of flowers instead of food! Grapes for wine ! Instead of food. They water the golf course! What do they expect?
Homeowners need to get rid of their USELESS, thirsty lawns and start growing some of their own food with the space they take for granted. Self sufficiency is never a bad thing. Sadly apartment dwellers can't do much.
People that move to a desert are obviously not very knowledgeable when it comes to growing anything. Think,
and it will come to you.
Grass lawns are an American staple of a family home. "It looks beautiful!", "My children can't play in the yard with no grass!". I personally believe gravel yards can be just as pretty, plant some desert shrubs here and there. Plus kids can wear this thing called shoes.
We should al stop with the golf-club cut grass around our house.
Residential water use accounts for only 13% of the total water used in Ca. (And they want us to conserve)? Yet industrial & farming who make profits & export their goods around the world get to use as much as they want.
@@Eli-9 but the difference is farming and industry is much more important then the green lawns or sprinklers.
Putting all our food production in one arid growing region was always short sighted.
How to resolve this issue
1. Cloud seeding this is emergency situation and should be done 🚨
2. Using dehumidifier let’s states in the drought provide there people with dehumidifier gets moisture out of the air water gose thru filter and the water is usable drinkable and you can do anything with that water
3. maybe get water trucks from different state of USA with no drought to bring the water and try to refill the lake or use the water trucks to bring to emergency shelters like Red Cross
@@thesilencereviews8633
And everyone receives
a free magic rock. Just tap the rock (once) and water comes out...
@@fredgervinm.p.3315 or a magic counch that says witty advice
Or how about building cities in the desert with so much light you think night was day.
@@merak0044
Build it and they will come...
We were warned and told to prepare for this back in the 80's. No one wanted to listen. Some people still aren't listening.
we can do the cloud seeding to make a lot of rain in California like right now.
Blame the right
@@Rungr and cause more drought in other areas?
We were warned in 1879 but no one wanted to listen. The West without Water: What Can Past Droughts Tell Us About Tomorrow? (Ohio State University)
As bad and worrisome as these more recent historical droughts in California and the West were, they pale in comparison to events uncovered in the geological record.
A glance into the history of the Southwest reminds us that the climate and rainfall patterns have varied tremendously over time, with stretches of drought many decades longer than the one we are experiencing now. Long dry stretches during the Medieval centuries (especially between 900 and 1350 CE) had dramatic effects on the native peoples of the Southwest (the ancestral Pueblo, Hohokam, and Sinagua), including civilizational collapse, violence, malnutrition, and forced social dislocation. These earlier Americans are a warning to us.
The past 150 years, which we have used as our baseline for assumptions about rainfall patterns, water availability for agriculture, water laws, and infrastructure planning, may in fact be an unusually wet period.
Powell published his Report On The Lands Of The Arid Regions of the United States [1879], a careful assessment of the region’s capacity to be developed. In it, Powell argued that very little of the West could sustain agriculture. In fact, his calculations suggested that even if all the water in western streams were harnessed, only a tiny fraction of the land could be irrigated.
When Powell presented his findings to Congress, politicians howled. Powell found himself denounced by pro-development forces, including railroads and agricultural interests. Prescient as Powell’s study has proved to be, it was almost entirely ignored at the time.
@@LCCreole so you had joe Biden in the Senate for fifty years wtf was he as impotent then as he is now?
Restoring the dried out Tulare Lake in southern San Joaquin valley would create a lake effect bringing more rain. Cotten farmers drained a large lake in the valley to turn it into fields. Removing a lake dried the weather out further.
At this point, with all that herbicide sprayed on that soil, restoring that lake may cause another poisonous lake like the Salton sea. But your right California shot itself in the foot by draining that lake.
@@Fishing4moby you may be right. That’s so sad the dried Tulare Lake could be so full of chemicals it can’t be restored.
@@karld1791 heavy use of impermeable liners would be called for.
You can’t bring back a lake
@@glovenchkirielen4229 California created the Salton Sea artificially so it can be done. There’s many issues like pollution and land owners so it would be very difficult to get it to work out well.
we're going to have to move the majority of American agriculture...to somewhere else in the US. CA is not suited for being responsible for growing 2/3 our produce anymore. Ideally, we should redistribute our agriculture across larger areas so if one area gets messed up, we still have the other areas that grow.
What’s the point of that if every person is just going to pretend drought sand climate change doesn’t exist?
We have morons thinking “great farmers produce soil “ without even knowing the entire biology of soil. The only time these people wanna throw in “organic” is whenever drought and climate is brought up in agriculture lol. People like that don’t care
Tons of vacant farms in east Tn. Wasn’t profitable anymore so they just sold all
Their equipment and found jobs locally.
There are very few places where widespread cultivation of many fruits and vegetables like those from CA can be grown.
The agriculture that's in California is there because the climate is suitable. If there were other areas with a Mediterranean climate they'd be in use already. It's not a starvation issue, there's plenty of available food, it just may not be what some people are used to eating.
We're so used to taking the land for granted and getting whatever we want whenever we want. The wake-up call is painful and the crash back down to reality will be even more so. It's time to live within our means, y'all.
Good farmers grow plants. Great farmers grow soil. Conventional agriculture is not sustainable when climate becomes varied.
This is exactly the problem. Nothing is done to keep the soil healthy. The farmers have gone to drip systems due to lack of water. No effort has been made to protect the soil.
Man made drought.
I live in Northern California this is a warning there will be a major food shortages this year due to droughts in California the farmers of Northern California do not have the water necessary to grow enough food this year. Yes they can grow a few things, but it will not be anything major rice, beans, the corn used to make ethanol and animal feed, many varieties of nuts and legumes and even tomatoes anything that uses any of these products most likely will not be in stores come this next winter and whatever we will grow will be stunted due to the lack of water. We had a cold snap come through the week prior that damaged a good portion of nut orchards in the surrounding counties along with ours. Roughly %50 of our fields in my county alone are fallow this coming growing season. My county is the top producer for rice and beans in California, typically anywhere between 3-6 months for rice packaging season, we will be lucky if we have even a months packaging. It doesn't help though that deals the farmers and the government have made leads to a good portion of our rice actually gets sent over to Asia annually. Pardon the use of the word county so many times. in the end the United States could be self-sufficient and keeping our produce and our agriculture goods only here in the United States the fact that the government and the farmers are willing to sell out of the country the goods that are supposed to stay here and bolster our own economy and people is a reprehensible act. Not to mention when there is shortages of food in the drought happening the only people that really suffer are the common folk out here not the farmers. No the farmers all get subsidies and insurance payouts from the government even if they produce some products.
I blame Biden. Its his fault, I'm sure. And I don't care if the Ministry of Truth does see this. I'm not afraid of them.
And "Suffer" we will...
@kevin Ironside Exactly! I can only hope, as I'm renting from a renter, and will have to move again soon in this terrible housing market. Doesn't give me much opportunity to garden anything. This situation is going to impact people like me even harder. So, I'm voting in June & November like my life depends on it.
@kevin Ironside The soil is so depleted of minerals that even if you know how to grow your own food it will be lacking in nutrients. Steve Solomon talks all about it in his books. He farmed in Oregon and ate 70% from what he grew. His teeth started to fall out.
Or just move out of California
If you are still growing a grass lawn then you will be part of the population that will starve to death in 5 years. You need to grow food on your lawn, not grass
So you're going to help create the droughts by watering, right?
@@KB-ke3fi your point is moot
We were told in the 70s that we were going to starve to death, still waiting
Says a gamer lol
Blame California’s government.
Stop allowing businesses to use water for free... seriously - if there’s a cost people will use it more efficiently.
Nobody would ever invest in hydroponics, or any efficiency measures when water is artificially free.
Parts of the Central Valley have subsided 6-8 feet due to extraction of ground water 💦. California has been on notice for years about the need to recharge and capture better.
11 years
@@daschundloverable 35 years
Yes I grew up in the Salinas Valley Carmel Valley on a ranch. We knew this was coming in the 1980s. Crazy Nothing was done but to keep pretending it wasn't happening. Santa Cruz was the last place I lived and we had Extremely strict water usage policies in the early 1990s. Permaculturre practices and rainwater capture must be deployed now. And a morritorium on building new developments when there is no water for them across the SW and PNW. We are climate change refugees. Increasing heat, drought and wildfires. Left Oregon for the Midwest no housing. Climate Migration has begun. 400,000 people moved to Oregon. Rental Vacancy rate in Our county was 1.1. Average rent on an apartment with no AC or other amenities is 1200. Minimum wage is 15. No one can survive. And we already lost 10,000 plus homes to wildfires. Plus the California folks who lost their homes or moved because of drought and wildfires. Oregon will be in as bad of shape as California soon. So glad we made it out. Loving the Midwest 2 hours from Chicago. In the high 70s this week. And it rains so much the tree frogs sing in the Summer. Plus buildings are built to withstand more temperature extremes. And almost every place comes with AC.
Half the reason we left Arizona was bc it was clearly unsustainable. When I moved there in 94 the Colorado River was already maxed out and yet everywhere: golf courses! and swimming pools and retirees trying to recreate the landscaping of Connecticut around their new slump block casitas and the endless suburban creep into the surrounding desert. This region was never meant to carry this many humans, who can only survive as long as water and electricity for A/C are readily available. And if folks had any idea how janky and precarious the power grid is out there, they would be very, very concerned.
Arizona is unhealthy lol
Just talking about the water is ignoring the topsoil. Over-farming, top-soil loss, and over-use of fertilizers
had reduced crop yield dramatically.
Using fertilizer reduces crop production??? Have you told this to farmers that they have been wasting millions of dollars of it? Get a clue, clown.
@@kevinfreeman3098 he said “over-use” bro
@@kevinfreeman3098 I watched a documentary about farming in California and over-use of fertilizer was a big complaint. I don't remember the technical explanation, something about phosphates and nitrogen, but using up, or burning up, the natural soil and becoming dependent on fertilizers is too expensive for profitable farming.
@@johnwattdotca You are exactly correct. The Soil Food Web by Dr. Elaine Ingham. She and her associates are going around the country re-training farmers on how to bring life back into their soil.
Even though this happens year after year, why is this a surprise to anyone? Now it has become severe, but yet, no one took the warning signs seriously? Glad to see the government taking such good care of their people here.
They’re taking good care of the farmers who don’t have to pay for water - then they wonder why everyone use up as much as possible.
Why do you think California specializes in cultivating products that use absurd amounts of water?
Why would anyone ever invest in hydroponics or water efficiency in general when it’s free?
The United States Needs huge amounts of Money for Infrastructure projects! New dams to prevent flooding during Rainy season and a water source for during Wildfires!
The Republicans have been Cutting Funding for decades to agencies that study and recommend solutions to these problems!
The Rich and Wealthy have been allowed to NOT PAY into our Tax Base that would have Funded water projects, Tree planting in the Forestry Agency, F.E.M.A that would fund Housing for Hurricane, Tornado, Flooding and wildfire Victims!
Small Government to a Republican only Means That the Rich Pay O or very little Taxes while these problems are not solved!
VOTE FOR DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES IN EVERY ELECTION!
@@kellibarnhouse6160 No. Go do grant research for a few years and see how that business works.
Put a price on water and you’ll adjust for scarcity.
@@kellibarnhouse6160 No, don't talk crazy. Democrats will be eating steak and you will be eating Bill Gate's insect wafers. Democrats, republicans both dislike you. But Democrat also want authoritarianism. So vote Republican if you have to vote.
The Republicans have Been in Control of Most of the Last 40 years, Starting with Reagan and the United States has Not done anything to Fix our Rusted out Bridges, Crumbling Dams, Broken water and Sewer pipelines!
Our Area had a Major Pipe break at a water treatment plant that dumped 7 million gallons of raw sewage into one of our lakes!
Guess who has run out State since the 90s?
Our Republican leaders give Huge Ten Year tax breaks to Corporations and then Have raised our Property tax 45% in the last 15 years!
VOTE FOR DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES IN EVERY ELECTION!
All the water from the Sacramento river just flows right into the ocean. There has not been a dam built in 50 years. There has not been any new electricity produced in over 50 years. There has not been any new refineries built in 50 years. What did you think will happen in California?
Olivenhain Dam was built less than 20 years ago.
@@SCHMALLZZZ Yes a small water supply dam you are right.
California also needs to protect the Salmon which is why California needs a certain amount of water flowing in the Sacramento River.
@@palace927 I'm starting to wonder with climate change and the desertification of California maybe it's time to stop giving so much to the fish. Do fish belong in the desert? It seems like an uphill battle that's not worth the fight.
We have to do things efficiently. Spain grows food inside greenhouses to maximize water usage. CA does it in open fields and floods their crops with large channels of water. This is wasteful. Time to modernize agriculture or else it's too late. Also almonds, pistachios, and alfalfa are too water dependent. Most of those are shipped overseas to China. Let's be pragmatic about what's sustainable for California's future.
Sounds good, but most CA farms are owned and operated by large corporations using up massive water and maximizing their profits. They couldn’t careless about preserving the future of CA. It’s about what they can profit today.
I can only imagine working in a greenhouse in Tulare County when it's 100 outside the hothouse lol
@@SCHMALLZZZ have you been inside one? They aren't hot houses. They are temperature regulated and are often cooled to grow a variety of plants. They are only warm in the winter to grow warm weather crops but otherwise cooler in the summer than being outdoors.
We need to stop exporting our food. Grow it here. Keep it here. Sell it here. Stop feeding other nations that hate our guts.
Efficiency would be ending all animal agriculture industry operations worldwide effective immediately. There is nothing efficient about basing our lives on farmed animals. It has succeeded in being the biggest monocrop this planet has ever known. We need to end all support of the animal agriculture industry worldwide effective immediately. And we need to restore the biomass of wild flora and fauna. While using Veganic Permaculture and gardening methods to heal the planet and heal and nourish ourselves. Eat plants. Plant trees.
This is what happens when the gov't claims water aquafers to be state property and pumps the water out of state to sell it.
I'm curious which state has the state government claiming the aquifer and then pumping it out of state. I've missed this one, and that is a major issue that is even worse than Saudi Arabian governmental entities purchasing extremely high water crops like alfalfa grown in Arizona ( alfalfa - desert is like fried ice cream, technically you can do it but it's still a bad idea) to export to their country. By the way did you know Saudi Arabia drained their aquifer almost completely to grow wheat. Sort of like growing rice and alfalfa in arid regions.
Yet you have the problem in states like Arizona and California where the aquifers are being pumped dry by business interests, and the state has no claim to the aquifer. In fact in Arizona rural areas are being depopulated by large agribusinesses that have sunk wells over 1,000 ft causing most of the rural homesteads in the state to have their wells go dry.
There is a term for pumping water that essentially cannot be replaced for centuries of not millennia, water mining. Just like removing oil or deposits, it's not going to renew within the practical lifetime of the people involved.
@kevin Ironside I thought I had a reply, but either something went wrong when I posted it or I said something the Google algorithm didn't like. To try to keep it shorter, I'll advise searching right of first capture. What it essentially says is that many resources, and that routinely includes groundwater, goes to whoever gets it out first.
California was supposed to be reforming this in 2021, but I haven't followed if they actually made significant changes of close the loopholes. I do know that in many areas they are now having to pump water from 2,000 feet down, that actually comes from millions of years ago. Also as they are pumping that water they are having massive subsidence, which is damaging roads, irrigation systems, buildings, etc . Several small towns have totally lost their water sources because they can't afford to drill new wells that go down 2,000 ft.
Arizona is on the same track. They now are routinely drilling 1,500 ft. In fact in many largely rural counties homeowners are being forced off their land. Their wells have gone dry, and under state law they have no recourse against the agribusinesses that have drained the aquifer below 1,000 ft.
So neither of those states has claimed the groundwater, let alone shipped it to other states. Now there are states that will not let you even capture the rainwater off your roof, because that affects people with senior water rights. It was one of the western states, I cannot remember which because I am pretty settled where I am.
Just for the record the dust bowl was not caused by overpumping. It was caused by plowing under grasslands, that were semi-arid, and then having one of those dry spells that put the "arid" after "semi". They didn't have either the electrical grid nor the affordable technology for pumps going that deep. At least affordably
@@shawncarroll5255 Government corruption. And the Nestle Co. bottles water from California. WTH!
40 million people living in a desert and they're running out of water? Who would of thought?
As a Farmer in Utah, we are also facing drought conditions. The biggest threat to American Agriculture is our own government. The prices of diesel fuel costs are out of sight. This push for electric cars would devastate Agricultural industry. Can you imagine having electric tractors? The costs for farmers would crash the industry's productivity.
How would having more electric cars have any impact whatsoever on agriculture?
BS!
Electric Cars would ease our oil supply and lower gas prices on gas motered engines!
Solar Panels on New Home and business Construction roofs would help lower the Cost of Energy Production, Wind Power would reduce the Costs of energy Production on Farms and Ranches!
Clean Energy does not completely leave out Gasoline production for the next 50 years, it just makes The Cost of Energy Cheaper!
@@gg-gamers I know coal burning, overloading grid line, cars are better.
I'm absolutely horrified that so many California farmers have not taken notice of the installed high pressure dome keeping California bone dry to serve the Geoengineering operations to keep the Ice pack covered in the far north. Each and everyday SRM Spraying aircraft can be seen off the coast of California laying down the spray media used in Geoengineering programs .the News Media and I mean all of them have been forced to play ball by signing a federal Gag order so you will not hear about the grave and actual conditions in America today they are intentionally keeping the general population ignorant and devoid of the fire circumstances in our country today...
I can see electric tractors, slower moving less ground to cover, while that doesn't fit every situation it might be 50%. Farms can have their own solar/ wind charging stations. The most common sense options would be hybrid that shifts in and out of diesel even for big trucks, with slide out battery packs like your cordless tools so some could be charging. And to clean up power plants to produce more cleaner.
Growing nuts like almonds use an insane amount of water. They squandered the water in California and now its come back to bite them.
I live in California and I agree. We don’t need almonds, at all.
Stupid people, win stupid prizes.
It takes a crazy amount of water to grow almonds - several gallons of water to produce each almond. California can't afford to keep wasting their water on growing almonds and growing grass in people's yards. People need to replace grass with plants that can actually thrive in the desert environment.
I agree about the almonds, unfortunately most of the water that comes from the Sierras bypasses the Central Valley to go to San Francisco or LA. Since they’re right by the ocean why don’t they have water desalinization plants?
@@Jujubean9795 2 words Almond Joy. But in all serious someone in charge needs to be tried for this.
While we cannot grow almonds in Ohio. In Ohio we can grow all the corn, tomatoes and melons the US needs, and we have plenty of water here. Come to Ohio, farmers we are glad to have you here.
No, you can't
California as a state is facing a uncertain future. Increasing prices, homelessness, drought, desertification, and fires. Plus large amounts of California’s industries are leaving like big tech and the movie industry. And declining population 😬
that's what happened when you cut the trees
They knew about this for decades and now everyone is supposed to shed a tear for these fools with farms in the desert. SMH.
It can be changed. Food industry is so busy with extracting value, they don't' think about building an ecosystem. ruclips.net/video/ITph5GJoKbA/видео.html
Grow your own food or shop local!! Most of us have lawns or outdoor space. Also start urban farming in abandoned lots, green spaces, patios, balconies, and churches.
Yup that's what I'm doing
it is a simple solution in most of CA. You just need to change a lot of laws and regulations and put thousands of desalination plants supplying all coastal areas and most the central valley
sure becuase desalination plants are CHEAP and great for the environment OH wait nevermind
@@djcesar7934 That would be a great option.There are not many other options for the west coast.
Desalination sounds so simple to the uneducated.
You have water storage for 20 million people in a state approaching 40 million.
maybe it wasnt a good idea for millions of people to live in the desert. ya know, a place where its main characteristic is its lack of water.
Well there there now so you need to come up with a solution rather than an obvious historical fact.
@@wanaraz Here's a solution, people should stop living in California. Or industrial desalination plants. Or both.
@@_HonkeyKong_ Every place has it's problems.
Israel is in a desert and they have no water problems.
@@palace927 Yes, they don't have all the extreme environmentalists either.
California has a bad habit of letting rich people waste water on their precious lawns and golf courses. So much water waste....and then they move out of state ready to destroy other areas when the going gets tough.
Eating the rich will soon be the only solution 😋
Locusts
80% of water consumption is by agriculture in California.
@@danielcarroll3358 So, you are saying it is okay for the 20% to be void of water responsibility?
@@TheDerangedBlood So you are suffering from words in mouth disease?
You can find descriptions of family farms from pre-WW1 up in the Great lake states that had orchards of a couple of hundred fruit trees near cities that supplied them with seasonal produce. The plants grew without irrigation, and many farms near the cities ship that fresh fruit and produce to them.
The spread of all that irrigated farming west of the Mississippi actually put those smaller family farms out of business. That and other kinds of agribusiness like mega farms that produce pigs or chickens. So we turned the small sustainable farms around cities in areas with enough rain to support them, into consolidated grain producing agribusiness. They couldn't compete with the huge agribusinesses with access to artificially cheap water in many more arid states .
Obviously that is now going to change. Americans are going to end up paying a fair bit more for food, and meat will become even more expensive. Maybe this can help Americans and get back to healthier farms and healthier diets.
Truth!!! We need to get back to working with nature, not against it. 💜🌎🍀
It will come back. These farms only went away because of cheap labor and energy, and add in the competitiveNess/efficient distribution of walmart and big groceries.
Now that people are going to be broke, and have time on their hands local farmers markets will thrive. I think retail dedicated to local farmers markets should be tax free, and even subsidized. The issue isn't the farmers, it's getting their products in front of retail consumers who only have time to shop after 5pm, and maybe Sundays.
@@nicholasr7987 Good points!
I've been in those areas, they just flood the farms daily. It's ridiculous
If only people knew how bad almond orchards are out here. They are all over and sponging up all the water.
@@---lr3bt when I drive from Sacramento to LA all I see are Almond orchards!
That's strange. All the tomatoes I see in my grocery store are from Mexico.....
For now
Soon we will rely on China for our produce. Can't wait!!!
Almond trees are one of the biggest water waste and should not be allowed to be irrigated
Most water is used to grow food to feed livestock because humans want to eat animals. You can't say you're concerned about the water crisis if you're not vegan
Actually about 94% of water used for livestock is classified as green water. Green water is rain water that happens to fall onto the grazing fields of animals, the water is then soaked into the soil and then evaporated back into the atmosphere. It’d be the same whether or not animals are present there. In actuality animals use about as much water as crops. In the end animals are just as sustainable as normal crops
@@mrziggyzaggy113 the fact that you think all farm animals live on grazing fields really shows that you are completely out of touch with reality
I'll have my steak med please, with a glass of milk.
@@ANotSoHotRodGarage You may not like your heart attack.
We became vegetarian 2 years ago. The cattle industry causes pollution from the methane gas.
Lack of water is not a problem. Overpopulation is a problem.
Blaming climate change is convenient, but too much growth in areas that are historically dry is not a good idea.
Climate change is due to growth! The way we model our societies and economies are entirely to blame for this. And we always try to "tech" our way our of every mess thinking if we just throw enough money at it we can solve any problem. Just look at how we botched the COVID pandemic. Sadly humans are collectively becoming dumber and less cooperative with each other and nature as the years pass. And time is running out. The house or cards will eventually come tumbling down hard if we keep breeding boundlessly and sucking the planet dry of it's resources.
Arizona uses less water now than it did 50 years ago despite the population being many times larger. The problem is drought and the non stop agriculture exports during the 20 years of drought,
Pipeline for the flooded east to dried out west. Filter and purify on the way west.
This is what you do....change your crops for the conditions. Where there is drought you plant drought resistant plants. Also find a better way of watering crops...sprinkler systems...watering during day..it evaporates so it takes more water. Drip systems, hand watering, water bags for trees, etc. Use your imagination and build it.
Invention is key
Yeah Israel grows a lot of crops in the desert using drip irrigation. Advances in drip irrigation was spurred by charging full price for water. California could shift to a lot more mariculture growing oysters, clams, muscles, kelp, and seaweed in the ocean.
Almonds actually are made for hearty weather like in CA. Our government doesn’t let farmers farm properly though.
@@zerotodona1495 It takes a gallon of water to grow 1 almond.
Why can't California build a pipeline from Northwest to capture all that water getting lost to the Pacific?
Keep building more houses! Bring in more people.
Yep, that's what they want to do. To be fair people keep having kids!!! Stop having kids!
We're blessed with a Mediterranean climate that no one else has...
uuhhh...then why is it named after somewhere else?
This has now court up with all of the US, and it's time for you guys to now FINALLY invest in repairing and creating new infrustructure to help the environment. Both for yourselves and the land.
the solution is to grow local and buy local.
@@laturista1000 In NYC? Sure.
Why they government letting people grow almonds... they take so much water
we just had a trillion dollar repair bill by biden
and I have yet to see anything being worked on or fixed
time for another trillion dollar repair bill
Our government is more concerned with pro-nouns and what dress they will wear to their bachelor's party. Infrastructure? More like fight the patriarchy.
We have been spoiled because water planning began during wet years and we never thought it would be as dry as it is. Now we have to try and stretch what we had over all users on the farm and in the city. The state has tried to reduce water usage by implementing new standards for faucets, shower heads, toilets and sprinklers. They have encouraged home owners to remove lawns and replace their irrigation with drip systems. In some areas they have okayed setting up grey water systems to irrigate your yard. Water districts use recycled water on landscaping. I work in one of those big box stores and in spite of the drought, which is obvious to anyone who looks, I still hear comments about having to cut back on watering and how lousy the low flow fixtures are. Well, if we had SPENT THE MONEY and implemented ways to capture and reduce water usage in the past it wouldn't be so bad now. You can complain about how much water some crops use but don't forget agriculture is BIG BUSINESS in California. In 2020 it was 55 Billion dollars which was more than 12% of total US agriculture. That's a lot of jobs directly and indirectly. We not only feed a lot of the U.S. but send our products around the world. The world isn't going to go back to what it was so we all need to pull up our big kid panties and get on with it. Whining and fighting amongst ourselves does not solve the problem.
agamerica.com/blog/california-agriculture/
Sorry bout the rant but I get tired of some of the stuff in the comments.
Maybe people in southern cali should stop trying to keep grass lawns growing in an increasingly arid climate
Yes! Why did they reject the Huntington Beach desalination plant. That would really help during droughts. It might be expensive, but then it should be expensive to live in the desert with no water source.
It takes 1800 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of beef.
That's one of the many reasons why we went vegetarian.
almonds take TOO much water to grow in a desert dummy
Alfalfa is the biggest consumer of water. California is also the largest producer of dairy.
Fish take too much water to grow in a desert.
Well a silver lining to upcoming food shortages may be that it starts to curtail the nationwide obesity epidemic. They say obesity related treatments was around $171B in 2021 alone. I always try to look at the bright side of things.
Ah yes, less fresh fruits and vegetables will help make people less fat. Brilliant.
@@mpls1982 Umm, of course? Fruits and vegetables can end up as fat as they are metabolized.
Yet we'd only be so optimistic they'd been eaten enough of daily. Only 1 in 10 Americans eat the recommended amounts of fruits & vegetables. So what are they eating mostly instead I wonder? Answer: Junk food and fast food followed up by soda and dessert that's what.
Of course, fast food, junk food and desserts don't come directly out of the ground. No, they come from base agricultural natural products. That are then corrupted by our industrial food complex in very efficient capitalist driven processes making them both cheaper and more convenient than fruits & veg.
Long story short: a food shortage will diminish all foods. But, now that you mention it, fruits & veg will be the *first* to go from people's food budgets as fast food and frozen processed is cheaper.
Maybe if LA stop stealing our water! We build a bunch of desalination plants and bring water from the ocean to here.
Blame California’s government.
Stop allowing businesses to use water for free... seriously - if there’s a cost people will use it more efficiently.
Nobody would ever invest in hydroponics, or any efficiency measures when water is artificially free.
They can turn ocean 🌊 water into usable water but they won’t do it .
So. Can we push more climate policy now?
Ummm I love how they push the whole climate change thing, they don't talk about the fact millions have moved to the southwest using much more water, they don't talk about letting millions walk into the country using that much more water, they don't talk about cutting down trees to out up concrete jungles that trap heat.
Arizona uses less water now than it did 50 years ago despite the population being many times larger.
Limiting Housing Construction in the Southwest and forcing Golf Courses to Stop watering their Properties would Help
@Z F G. You are correct about the population moving to California over the last decades, however California population is actually in decline losing 117 K last year and this is the second year of population decline.
And the claim of millions coming over the border is also an extreme exaggeration. The west has been too little too late on this issue of conserving water. The problem is set to intensify because the region has boxed itself into a corner.
True
Nonsense. These things are talked about all the time. Scientists have been warning us of these problems, but until our politicians make some hard decisions, we are going to be down to drinking water only. Soon.
Mismanagement of land & water.
This is so scary. I come from California even if I don't live there now. Callfornia doesn't really get any rain at all. There is even a song about it never rains in California in the summertime. That I'm sure is still true. It also doesn't rain in the spring or the fall. It only tends to rain in Dec. and Jan. So sure yes they should try to store this- rainwater when it happens--all regions should work on storing rain water as much as they can so that it doesn't evaporate.
I think we need to take seriously the threat of less food at higher prices and understand that the poor in poor countries are going to d*e of famine.
The sooner we see this, the sooner we can come up with real solutions.
we can do the cloud seeding to make a lot of rain in California like right now.
well here in india we live almost 3 month in 45'c temperature
It never rains in Southern California by Toni Toney Tony
With Biden in office, we are going to be a poor country very soon.
@@Rungr Howard Hughes tried that it doesn't work well enough.
How about build some desalination plants along the coast like San Diego did...they have no water shortage.
The Population in Ca has doubled since 1970 And they haven’t built any new water infrastructure since then, Why? because it’s harmful to the environment. Relying on the snow pack as a main water source is like relying on solar panels to power your car. Let’s see how that works out.
Yeah they are actually getting rid of dams. Soon we will be walking down to the local stream to get a bucket of water 3 times a day.
Greenhouses, permaculture, and aggro forestry? Plus the waste of fresh produce like by 30 %
It’s time to consider using recycled water for farming. Others countries have done this already, and is needed versus pumping it into the sea and else where.
they already do that.
Blame California’s government.
Stop allowing businesses to use water for free... seriously - if there’s a cost people will use it more efficiently.
That’s what prices are - a metric of scarcity.
Nobody would ever invest in hydroponics, or any efficiency measures when water is artificially free.
1. Blame the Government in Sacramento for not building new reservoirs that can provide all the water California needs.
2. Ditto regarding desalination plants.
3. Israel is drier than California but has no water shortages. Bad California governance is the issue.
More reservoirs is DEFINITELY not the answer. There are far too many reservoirs in California and throughout the west as it is. The excessive number of reservoirs has drastically reduced native fish populations as well as negatively affecting the health of the rivers.
This is about a population that has exceeded the carrying capacity of the land and has also been far too slow to take the necessary steps to conserve water.
This is not just a California problem but a problem throughout the west. And it isn't just because of over population, but also climate change which is the main reason for the prolonged drought that has been going on for 22 years and is intensifying this year.
@Lloyd Jones. You are making a false comparison with Israel to the California. California is state and Israel a country. Israel receives three billion in aid from the US every year. Israel is also a fraction the size of the California with a much smaller population.
Our government always wait till the last minute when its too late and SHTF everyone panics. Why?
Because people laughed back in the 80 when scientists warned us. Bills to invest in clean energy gets block by oil stock owning republicans. All attempt to fix things gets gutted and blocked. Republicans never act until it threatens their pockets.
Man is not worth it buying a house if there's gonna no water in for the future.
There is drought in half of the country.
Um, California's climate is changing back. It's not becoming a desert, it already was one.
It's been getting dryer for the last 5000 years and these morons think it's because of people driving around
California is sitting on a $100 billion tax surplus. Is any of that money going to addressing the drought at all? Almonds and cotton require huge amounts of water. Not the right crops for this region!
Farm in desert, complain about lack of water.
Where is logic.
Thinks he's smart.
Complain about higher prices.
Where is the logic in that?
California is only 25% desert there bud
@@foodiejustin557 Yup. California is a big place. If you go due east from the southeast corner of California, the first foreign country you hit is Morocco. There is your desert. But if you go due east from the northeast corner of California, the first foreign country you hit is Canada.
@@danielcarroll3358 Due East from northern California is not Canada you may have worded that wrong but still don't see you point (Lifelong California resident)
@@foodiejustin557 I said from the northeast *CORNER* of California. The point being that the range of geography and climate of California is vast.
Not climate change and drought
...it's too many people living in a desert without adequate water in the first place
The rich 10% could fix all of these problems if they really wanted to
Or...the useless people who only take resources and contribute nothing to the world, should use less if they really wanted to.
When did the rich care about the common good?
I work for a pump company and farmers wast tons of water there line leak they water when it not need they water the roads just because it dusty they really need a different watering system. but there all stuck in the past and none of them want to change there ways. all they really care about is that pay check there some of the most weathey people In the usa biggest farm land owner bill gate but there always complaining there broke and need help. What do they expect when you try to get the cheapest labor and irrigateter there are part of the water problem is the ag farmer sh#t they guys that grow pot are better at conserving water. they try to tell home owner to conserve but the ag farmer waste the most amount. Has any one seen how a well get tested that is mandatory by the state is done. people would really loose there minds if they seen how much get wasted instead of being used. There a lot behind it that no one see all you see is the people complaining and the news trying to blow it up in to a storyline with only a part of the info like as always ⛲💦👍✌️💯🤯 I also live in California
These are not your family farmers. You do not see this produce at a farmers market This is agribusiness big agro, millions of dollars. A big business that should be taxed for there needs. You have to pay property tax, you get charged for all the services you need. I am sure the CEO's of these agro businesses want the citizens to pay for the water to grow in a desert.
Did you really expect things to be okay when the water you count on is from Northern California and Northern Nevada. The water was stolen and directed to L.A, it was not meant to sustain the millions a thousands miles that did not have its own supply of water for a city basically that was dry and arid to begin with. The destruction of natural forest in the name of progress is whats leading this drought and nobody is to blame but money hungry developers who are still making millions today and people who are buying homes will find that its worthless when their will be no access to water
That soil is so bare. Clearly hasn’t been managed with regeneration in mind. No cover, little to no litter, aggregation, or biological activity. If it did rain the soil wouldn’t hold much of anything. Californias Central Valley is in trouble
We would be SO SO much better off if they would transition to regen ag
@@Streghamay absolutely! a large scale conversion not only can sequester a ton of atmospheric carbon in the soil but also help to create more rainfall through transpiration. Regenerative is the only way forward
It might well be climate change and drought at this time but at what point do you refer to it as desertification? The commenter was right to mention 'new normal' but that new normal is changing fast with much more to come. This new normal is only fleeting. Each degree Celsius temperature rise means 7% more moisture in the atmosphere which is not on crops nor in reservoirs. That warming is between 1.5 times and 2.0 times as much on land per degree Celsius. Mitigation and adaptation are needed urgently that means moving from fossils even faster, divesting from fossils into renewable energy and serious investment in resilient infrastructure and public transport.
In addition to the measure you mentioned, we need to shut down all animal agriculture industry operations, as animal agriculture uses 50% of California’s water resources. But, not just here. We need to end all support of the animal agriculture industry worldwide effective immediately. And get busy restoring the biomass of wild flora and fauna, while also growing food forests using Veganic Permaculture and gardening methods, to restore our planet, and heal our relationship and balance with nature.
I've lived in San Joaquin county for 4 years now and haven't heard of any water restrictions or any issues with the supply
Everyone also likes to keep their 20 ft swimming pools full 😂
Maybe it's a separate issue at hand ?
Stop having children they won’t have water to drink , or food eat.
Overpopulation
California should look into doing permaculture it will help retain water.
Or reintroduce beavers into the environment
@@benjaminyoung9694 there's a Saudi Princess that's transforming a desert into an oasis after she started a permaculture project. They are not bringing in truckloads of water or having it brought in by waterlines, no they're relying on rainfall. Though some projects I've seen were given a boost by doing so in the beginning then they stopped bringing in water to watch what works and what failed.
The Central Valley is truly a paradise. Let's not lose it!
HOW ODD I HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH SNOW FALL IN THE SIERRAS AS I DID THIS PAST WINTER BUT DID ANYONE THINK OF STORING EVERY INCH OF THAT INSTEAD OF PLOWING INTO A SEWER???!!!
Of the state really cared, the state would ban almond farming and rice paddies… we could all
Live without almonds and there’s no reason to grow rice in standing water in the middle of the central
Valley… this state is really good at not addressing issues and then running around worried when the chickens come home to roost
The state eliminated a significant number of almond orchards in the Central Valley of California years ago. A few still remain, but that is a fraction of what was there before. Besides global warming, the problem in California is that there are a ton of green lawns everywhere. So much water is wasted to keep the grass green in such an arid place, it is ridiculous!
And then we sell the food to other countries.
Growing food like melons crops, which consume inordinate amounts of water, should be just plain banned!! Very little real sustenance except sugar which, less face it, is overly provided for from other sources!
All that soil left open to sun and heat must be terrible for the soil. This is a huge country. I don't care that you get efficiency of scale by growing all in one place; it is not sustainable. We need to grow in MANY places in this country
"Call on the Lord in the day of trouble,
and He will deliver you."
Psalm 50 :15
Build more water storage, stop with the BS.
Anyone who is interested in government corruption and water in California should watch "Chinatown",
starring Jack Nicholas, a movie from 1974.
Jack Nicholson
@@metro3692 Wow! I was in high school, working as an usher at the theater when Easy Rider came out, and know Jack Nicholson. This might be my first middle-aged moment, even if I'm a senior. Jack Nicholas might have sounded good as the pro golfer.
@@johnwattdotcaCool, I worked as an usher too.
1971 - Diamonds are Forever, Billy Jack,etc.
@@metro3692 I saw Billy Jack and was surprised when it became a huge cultural thing. Same with The Shining, seeing that as a boring movie. My modern bad movie recommendation, don't ever watch "Sling Blade".
Tahoe sets new December snowfall record with nearly 18 feet of powder in 2022 in the Seirra's
This has been coming on for 10-20 years and to this day they haven't made golf courses or mcmansions quit using millions of gallons of water on desert ground. They build whole housing additions on these same grounds, while not stopping the oils and fracking and other things that destroy the environment.
So I guess you want to live in a tent and shoot rabbits and not wear shoes or have a computer or even a sleeping bag or clothes? Oil and fracking make your life perfect. So go ahead and live with the scorpions and snakes, let us know how it turns out with your new sunburns.
@@KB-ke3fi You put it as all or none, if you destroy the whole planet what shoes do you wear or foods do you eat. They were getting oil before fracking. A lot of things can be done to clean up, and a mass transit system can be built in areas instead of a thousand cars driving to the same place each day. Trump didn't just stop progress for four years he worked at backing it up 10-20 years.
I farm in an arid region of Southern alberta and have had to adopt minimum tillage and direct seeding into last year's crop residue in an attempt to save every drop of moisture the soil has. It works for us but not sure how it would be for California and the types of fruits and vegetables they grow. It took us millions of dollars to invest in machinery capable of working in previous years residue and a few hiccups along the way but now we can grow more abundant crops on half the rainfall we required back in the 80s. Our soil is under constant protection now from wind and rain erosion and the organic matter is now double what it was 15 years ago which means our moisture holding capacity is better as well during periods of drought.
California might be worried about killing an endangered beetle or something.
We all should do cloud seeding so it will end the drought.
it takes moisture out of the air, so you might just cause a drought elsewhere...
It's not a perfect science.
If Israël can manage desalination for their lands, why can’t California adapt this same process here. The Guv just announced a multi-billion surplus of money...so, let’s see if we can make this happen on the Calif. coast, as in San Diego.
And where do you get the massive amounts of electricity required for desalinization plants? Burn more fossil fuels? And what do you do with all the salt brine that you can't pump back into the ocean? I smell an eco disaster if we go down that route.
@@Kurt1968 You're right. Let's import our produce from China, get rid of our dams, and take our bucket down to the stream 3x a day for our water. 21st century - figure it out.
@@cavemancaveman9746 sometimes there is no solution without consequences. I predict humans will perish in the end because of stupidity and greed.
This could be the beginning of a 500 year drought (West of the Rocky Mountains): Utah, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and California (some impact in Oregon).
You forgot Washington State, Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming are all in a drought.
@@palace927 I didn't realize. OK
It's been getting dryer for the last 5000 years. This is nothing new.
@@mikehertz6507 Lake Powell and Meade disagree with you. And their water levels would be much lower except Wyoming & Colorado gave a good chunk of our precious reservoir water to keep Lake Powell from dropping another 15 feet.
@@mdb1239 Native Americans use to grow corn in the the 4 corners area thousands of years ago. Couldn't do that today. And lake Meade is a man made lake made in the 30's. You know this right?
Anybody thought of building new reservoirs?
Nope
Stop consuming and throwing half of the food in the trash. that's been in American culture for decades.
People in Ca need to be required by law to plant a self sustaining garden instead of a lawn. And then be forced to be vegan if they choose to live in a desert.
They should only eat what they are able to grow in place of there water sucking lawns.
Great idea! Tons and tons of water go to waste with their green lawns, it is ridiculous because the state is arid.
Y'all better get busy building some desalination plants ASAP... AND get busy putting in WATER PIPELINES instead of oil pipelines!
Industrial water use needs to be re examined by every state at every level. It rain really hard every day this spring in my state but still they have water shortages.
Residents are always told to cut back every time they say this but residents aren't even capable of that much waste. Only large scale industry is capable of that much wasteful activity. They're building thousands of wind farms that have very large concrete bases and also need freshwater sand to mix it. How much water does that use? How many cities and towns have outdated water treatment plants to recycle their wastewater and treat pollution problems?
I can think of thousands of ways industry uses millions of gallons of water per day and yet the pressure always falls on residents to cut back, conserve, or lower their standards. Residents and homes are not where the usages peak. Someone is misrepresenting facts if they're claiming that.
Stop Growing Almonds.
In my community, which has massive agricultural capacity for CENTURIES, we've been invaded by Balfour brothers who are carving up land like a kosher Christmas ham. It's luxury housing and solar (bs) farms. Also, industrial warehouses and parks with a flood of strip malls. Why? Unlimited greed for money. They LIE to community boards and representatives about continuing agriculture and then after acquisition and various approvals they turn around and say "agriculture is DEAD on Long Island" and then do what they want. Speaking as someone who knows, agriculture was thriving and making a massive comeback until the Balfours KILLED IT. Famines are created by evil men....... NOT THE EARTH!!
And nobody believed this would happen. People spoke of this in 1960.
Being a farmer in California sucks
Every business, every structure must begin now to capture roof run-off. Much, much cheaper than recharge.