California's Drought: A City Without Water
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- Опубликовано: 12 июл 2015
- The Town of Porterville is ground zero for the drought and on it's Eastern edge lies East Porterville, a town where local residents have run out of water entirely.
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Produced by:
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Valerie Bischoff
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Valerie Bischoff
Editing and Story:
Valerie Bischoff & Laurie Thomas
here because of the electoral college video. great example of the majority exploiting the minority
+Muddy Shoe This is not about rain. California is suffering a drought due to lack of rain fall. The Central Valley, specfically the San Joaquin Valley, is suffering a depletion of it's ground water due to the diversion of surface water in Northern Calfornia. The Central Valley is dealing with a crisis that has nothing to do the the statewide drought. The problem in the San Joaquin Valley is about diverting the surface water that naturally flows from the Sacramento River and the San Joaquin River Delta into the Central Valley. 10 years of rain falling every day will not solve the diversion of water from the Central Valley. This is the same thing that happened to the Owens Valley when the LA Aqueduct was built. It diverted the water from the Lower Owens River into the Aqueduct and dried up Owens Lake. Owens Lake is not like any other dry lake bed in California. It dried from the surface down....instead of the bottom up as the water naturally was used and not replenished.
The situation in the Central Valley will impact every Californian. It will impact the U.S.economy. This is not just one small town not preparing for a dry period. Imagine if St. Louis, Missouri decided to divert the Mississippi River and cut off the Lower Mississippi. Yes this won't happen....this is just an example. The impact would be devastating to the southern states.
The surface water being diverted from the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers is clean water that is being pumped in to the delta and flushed out in to the ocean. This is being done to save the Delta Smelt. A fish that is still going extinct because the predator fish that feeds on the Smelt is also increasing in population. In fact, the Smelt's extinction is actually moving quicker due to the interference of the government than if it had been left to mother nature.
The farmers and communities in the the Central Valley are now being forced to rely on ground water drilling due to the loss of the natural recharge provided by the surface water from the San Joaquin River. The farmers and communities would not be drilling deeper wells, using ground water and running the aquifers dry if the water from the river had not been diverted from flowing south as it did naturally.
And the water to help flood the delta for the Delta Smelt could have been through reclaimed water, desalinated water right there from the coast, or they could have taken some of the naturally occurring run off from rain water in the area and used that to achieve their goal. Instead they took the cheapest way (for the government) and just blocked off a river from flowing south in to the Central Valley and caused a man-made or should I say a government-made crisis in the Central Valley.
One final point. Without rainfall CA will not get better. You did not prepare. As you dig deeper wells the ground will sink by multiple feet as it already has in many areas. CA will be a dust bowl within five years make no mistake. Ground water siphoning is not the answer as aquifers do eventually run dry as demonstrated many times throughout history. What you fail to realize is that the ground has a huge water storage capacity. You are sucking water out very deeply. If rain comes it will fill the ground first. After the ground water tables stabilize and the ground becomes saturated the water will begin to pool on the surface. Even if the rain did come there is a massive amount of ground water that must be replaced first. You would literally see the ground soak up the rain like a sponge. I would leave CA before home prices are totally destroyed due to inability to literally live there. Make no mistake the CA govt and EPA are lying about the severity.
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CA will be evacuated within five years if current conditions persist.
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Water is already a commodity globally and the lack of consistent precipitation is only encouraging the exponential reality of a mass migration out of CA.
+Muddy Shoe Very good insight into a problem that few understand the magnitude.
Great production, very informative, thanks
Keep up the great work....your videos are the best.
Back in the 60s -80s in Santa Rita NM,, our windmill used to put out good water,, and it rained allot then... then the Mines next to us drilled a deep well , and the aquifer dried up...
You should have done a video at lake success it's outside of porterville. I mean in the 15 years I have lived I've never seen it with small amount of water.
16,000 golf courses across the united states, each one uses an estimate 450,000 gallons on average every single week.
And you are wondering why there is a water shortage? I couldn't possibly figure out why.
DIRTY SECRET.... California's water shortages are admittedly in large part due to lack of rain fall and snow fall. But there is another huge cause. Its the same reason cities like Detroit are in such disarray. The fact of the matter is wells and large above ground stock tanks were not dug because of highly restrictive California environmental laws. As an example of what California should have done we only need to look at TX. In Texas citizens are encouraged to dig massive lakes on their land. This helps with water storage, wildlife flocks to the new water thereby increasing populations, wildfire resource, relieves dependence upon local municipalities.... California's insane political ideologies placed more value on a rare lizard than their own people. Its a tough pill to swallow i know but the fact is that Cal does not have to be in this situation. Hold people responsible!
I'm A treaty Status Indian from Canada . On Aug 1 2015 - I Put some water on Ground & A little ceremony For mother Earth to help you guys out over there . Things will Change. ( Believe )( no bs )
WARPAINT GAMER { Canadian } they always do
we had 2 months nonstop heavy rain in indiana, its still pouring as we speak
So, just wondering. The grass is green across the street yet nothing can be done in a timely manner to provide water for the community.
The area is drying because there is no trees, woods, to acumulate water, naked area soil is burning, so people must go to planting and caring for soil, land and plants.
California not getting rain is sad.
I don't hear about this anymore 🤨?? What happened??
There is a new invention that avoids this: PROCESS OF CONVERTING SEAWATER TO HYDROGEN, PIPING IT AND REFORMING IT TO FRESHWATER. that converts seawater into freshwater AND transfer it inland at minimal cost.
Never know what u got 'til it's gone. I used to be homeless, but I did have my car to sleep in. I had like about 10 plastic juice bottles that I would fill up with water from gas stations and the like. I would then find a vacant place to park and then clean myself up. Pretty soon, there will be a lot of people doing this
only a matter of timebefore a fire sweeps through there :(
Wow so Nestlé pays just $524 a year to pump as much water as it can (100,000 gallons of water a day) from California's San Bernardino National Forest, then makes a huge profit by selling it back to Californian's who no longer have access to water. That is truly fucked up!
I'm watching this video and it's raining, how ironic
without water, there is no life what we are experiencing in this days is painful
Except for very wet years, that river never flows down in the valley. Water comes from an upstream reservoir. Long term, they will need to form a water district and find supplemental funding.
A single Watermelon can now fetch more than $20 dollars a piece.So $100 dollars four Watermelons.You think it got something to do with the lacks of water ?
I may be horribly wrong but aren't some of the big corporate farmers the reason for wasted water? Plus some of the other companies like nestle and walmart selling the water at a huge profit? Sorry if it's too vague
Im all ready saving water in 2lit soda bottles .
California's facing drought while us Floridian's are at risk of a Hurricane. My how things are different on the East and West Coast. The only the they have in common is being Murican and having a Disneyland/World.
Hi Tim, I'm subscribed and listening since you went to Europe, great work! Since you are in the area, are you able to drive to Anaheim Ca for the Hockey Game. I'm in Edmonton, We the Oilers sang the USA national anthem yesterday when the microphone broke. I'm am Wondering if USA will return the favor. The Nation is Watching, For sake of sport.
It breaks my heart to see the pastor giving out Nestle brand water. Bless him for his generosity, but this is exactly what Nestle wants. They're counting on more droughts like these.
pray for rain.
After the Texas drought of 2010-2011 and a brief recovery, we are back in a growing drought again. I believe this is a national if not international problem. Climatologists are now discovering that droughts can last for DECADES, not just years.
Damn California is screwed
At a time that "California farmers are getting zero of the water needed from the Federal Water Project. Some California farmers are going to get as much as 10% of the water allocated from the State Water Project. The Guv is giving the needed water to the fish and allowing rain water to flow into the ocean, instead of capturing it. He refuses to spend $2 billion the voters gave him for water storage facilities."
And yet there is water and the abuse of the resource " gets worse. “- Because of an overabundance of supply, the San Diego County Water Authority has dumped a half billion gallons of recently desalinated and treated drinking water into a lake near Chula Vista."
www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/san-diego-dumps-water-into-lake-oversupply-of-water-reaches-a-new-absurd-level/
Alright I'm moving
And here i am doing 50% water changes on my aquariums trying to grow aquarium plants but they don't grow?. so i try to add fertilizer but now the plants start melting like an ice cream cone in a young child's hand dripping to the floor... then i decide to invest in a Co2 system which cost me 250$ and now my plants just sit there with a thick layer of algae saying F U i won't grow for you. Now i'm sitting here watching this video about a drought in California and i'm thinking, how the fuck are those farmers growing plants in a drought and my plants in my aquarium don't give a fuck about life? so i said to my plants, i hate you!.. but i did another 50% water change because in my head i'm really thinking i just want a nice planted aquarium show tank in my living room... It's almost November, and winter is coming. I hate cold weather.... I wonder if i should grow my mustache? what would my co-workers think? I probably won't because i have a weird looking mustache when its long... Karaoke was fun last night. I met this girl and she was from Toronto, her face was bae and her body was 1hunnid. I hope she has a safe flight home on Tuesday.
When the recommendation is to dig a deeper well, the solution is to move out. You are fucked. No wonder there is such flight from california towards other states.
have you watched cowspiracy?
I don't think its a water issue its a lack of infrastructure issue. A 100 foot well in Texas would be a joke everyone would drive by and make fun of the owner. Its a cheap ass well.
Wow this is worse than I thought. I have a question that I've been burning to ask anyone living in California.
You guys get sunny days like nobody else's business. Which is good for solar energy.
You guys have very long coastlines, there's hardly any serious storms that damages infrastructures, and you have endless supply of sea water.
Now If I was an elected guy with power, I would build a lot of Desalinization plants, powered by solar, to make LOADS of fresh drinking water.
Heck build enough of them, and you can build an aqueduct to nearby states that also have drought/water issues.
This would create jobs, clean electricity if you have surplus (or use that to power pumps for the future aqueduct pipes) and solve a few problems all at once.
My question is: *Why isn't anyone doing it?* -- honest to god question. WHY NOT !? It's been burning me from the inside.
Someone outta bring this idea of mine (some east coast Canadian, of all places) to your representatives and get this ball rolling.
Stop depending on the rain and stop watching entire towns go dry. My 2 cents.
Unfortunately, this just the beginning, the water situation is gonna get much worse, not only in California, but across most of the world. :-(
Too bad, we the people are to blame, not the lack of rain.
This is what they think happened to the Mayans.
That's scary
There is technology in Israel turning the sea water to irrigate the field. The challenge now is drinking water. Everywhere in Africa, India, Pakistan same problem no more drinking water. Is the the effect of climatic change?
Move over here to the East :)
Jeremy Williams or just move a bit north
+Jeremy “superduperjew” Williams Floridian?
A very good article on the history of the government caused water crisis in the Central Valley......and it isn't caused by the lack of rain.
www.investors.com/california-drought-caused-by-environmental-activists/
To all the people saying God brought this on, nope. Just good ol' human ignorance as to the effect we have on our environment. We've made some progress but there isn't enough funding for research to find ways to lessen our effect on our planet. How can you help? 1. Vote for people that support climate change research. 2. Donate to organizations that do research. 3. Volunteer.
Move to Florida
we r not in a freaking drought its maby that people don't water there plants and trees and other thing and ya we need some rain :')
Wow that's not cool!
Politics baby
Good thing I live in England, temperate climate.. It rains for at least one day a week in england.
Invade that golf course!! @Gunpoint!!
Selfishness, stupid golf course
There they go all 'God Bless you' again...well he already did...with a sandy dry well...but keep on thanking non-existent deities for your misery...sad humans