California is dumping a trillion gallons of fresh Water in the ocean and according to the Public Policy Institute of California, a San Francisco-based non-profit, farmers in California’s San Joaquin Valley region, who account for half the state’s agricultural output, will need to severely limit their water use if the State’s groundwater resources are to be conserved.
Who would declare a water shortage disaster after spending years dumping good, fresh water into the ocean to protect a non-endangered bait fish? For years the southern 1/3 of the beautiful San Joaquin Valley’s farmland has been turned into a “man-made” dust bowl.
The water is being allowed to just run off the mountains, through the river system, through the delta, and out into the ocean. The water is being reserved for the little Delta Smelt, a three inch bait fish, that isn’t even on the endangered species list.
California had a wet November, a moist December, an absolutely drenched January and February, and so far a fairly watery March. Los Angeles exceeded its average annual rainfall a month ago, less than halfway into the “water year” (which runs from October through the following September). The Sierra snowpack is at more than 150% of average. The state is soaked.
Epic Drought Means Water Crisis on Oregon-California Border
Federal officials announced Wednesday that farmers who rely on a massive irrigation project spanning the Oregon-California border will get 8% of the deliveries they need amid a severe drought. By Associated Press April 14, 2021, at 10:39 p.m. https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2021-04-14/epic-drought-means-water-crisis-on-oregon-california-border
Wow, I knew the draining of the lakes that used to be in California was an artificial thing, but I never knew it was this bad...
I finally got to see it myself on a vacation a few years back where we took the Amtrak across country and decided instead of flying home from San Francisco we'd get off in Sacramento and drove a rental car to Lake Tahoe and then down to Las Vegas to visit family before flying home from there.
Mono Lake makes it very obvious as the entire history talks about the greediness of LA and all the water redirected and decades of lawsuits to stop the drainage. Mono Lake used to be much bigger a century ago and as you walk down the path from the visitor parking to the shore you pass all these signs showing where the shoreline used to be 70, 50, 30, 15 years ago and you're walking past structures that had formed underwater.
Even more striking through is Owen Valley which is the mostly dry bed of what used to be Owen Lake. You drive through what looks like desert and need to see the satellite view to find where the remaining water even is and you find out that only a century ago that valley was all green and the highway you're driving on should be underwater.
California ruins everything it touches while trying to virtue signal about the environment.
I am at the point where I pray for the souls that should be saved to get out now & quickly bring a Sodom & Gamorrah event to the big cites there.
Does Friday evening work for you Lord?