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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That's bull shit the state is not soaked.
The climate and precipitation amounts in LA and San Diego don't affect anything in central california let alone Northern california which is what they're talking about.
Northern california hardly got any rain this year. It has easily been the driest year I can remember in my whole life. ALL OF THE RESEVOIRS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ARE DRYING UP BECAUSE THERE IS NO RAIN OR SNOW PACK TO REPLENISH THEM.
Driving by shasta lake it looks like a puddle surrounded by acres and acres of dry mud.
That water absolutely needs to flownout. I think they're talking about the sacramento river which is basically what makes the San Francisco Bay. Tons of ports and docks are dependent on the delta.
I myself live on one of california's largest rivers and it's way down. We require snow pack on the mountains to feed the river well into summer and there is absolutely zero snow. We didn't get any rain all spring, and it's been windy as hell all spring and in the 110°s
Not only to several ports and other industries rely on the delta, and besides the smelt there is salmon and all sorts of wild life that is key to entire ecosystems that depend on that water flowing out.
SALMON populations are 1-3% of their historical average. Not allowing the little water that is there would kill the chinook off and they would never come back not to mention it would dry the ecosystems up leaving them to inevidnly be finished off by wildfires that are almost certain to hit this year.
Those farmers in thale valley using archaic industrial farming practices turned that valley in to a desert long before the severe deputy hit.
The entire central valley used to be a lush wet lands full of springs creeks and streams and had the entire western slope of the sierra nevada, and the eastern slope of the coastal ranges as it's water shed, but they fucked it up with shitty, greedy farming practices. Now they want to take water from Nor Cal and Oregon. It's like a spoiled rich kid who got his ingeretence and blew it on drugs and is now trying to borrow more from other people to go gambling and to buy more drugs.
It's a mess created by gian t corporate owned farms and now they want to fuck up other ecosystems to support their crappy behavior
Basically what they want and you people are rooting for is to destroy northern California so that the a few corporations can get richer and several illegal aliens who work the farms can have jobs while they also finish the central valley off with their corporate megafarm practices