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.
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They’ve been doing this for ages. When the snow pack melts in the Sierras, they just let most of the water run into the ocean. The snow pack is how California gets most of its water.
Then they say it’s a drought and that residents have to ration how much water they use. Agriculture takes up 97% of the state’s water supply, not residents, so it doesn’t do a thing to help. Unfortunately, there’s not much to do about rationing water for ag, unless you want to cause a food shortage and inflate food prices.
I’m a born and raised Californian who got the hell out of there. I watched it all happen. Every. Single. Year.
they won't build new ones, and want to remove the current ones
Yet the population has doubled over the last 20 years.
Mostly illegals
This makes me rethink the story about the man who peed in a water reservoir and the city decided they would drain the whole reservoir
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2004420/Reservoir-drained-man-urinates-Portland-Oregon.html
Instead of stupidity, I wonder if it was intentional now.
That dude was pissing Uranium 1
You needed to re-think that? A man pisses into it, how much bird shit daily gets in there that no one cares about? The don't even drain the pool if an infant shits in it.