An added problem is that when rain does come, it seems to come in more extreme downpours. There is a partial solution to this. Get absolutely fanatic about having beavers in all the river catchments. By holding the water on the land during these severe rainfall events, water is directed down into the ground instead of flowing straight down to the sea and being wasted. Beavers cause the ground water to be recharged.
The main problem is that people are focused on LeBron's new jersey & what one of the Kardashian family tweeted instead of such literally earth-shattering issues of today. Tick tock. The planet will continue on with or without human civilization.
king and Country so pathetic. You’re joking about your fellow Americans suffering. Also California provides a large percentage of what you eat so you will suffer if they do.
@@michaelbelt8768 It's expensive here, depending on where you live but I live in a retirement community with very low rent and a sizable disability check. I got no reason to leave and have my rent go up and get on some other list for subsidized living. I can't stand the urban areas anymore. Too many people, too much traffic.
I hated living in California. Excessively high taxes, phenomenal traffic congestion, declining infrastrure and a closed minded political system that says only our way is correct.
Martin Rademakers I lived there 38 years and it use to be a real nice place in the 70s and before but now it’s the worst place in the country to live. I have never been happier since I left. Living way better too for less money, a lot less.
During the Civil War, the entire San Juaquin Valley was under water. Many towns were wiped forever off the map. Marysville and Sacramento rebuilt after it finally dried out. They had nothing to drain the rivers to the ocean. From south of Bakersfield where the mountain range starts and up to Redding and the mountains of Mt. Shasta were under water. There was no coverage of this due to the Civil War. I researched it and saw many photos. Huge disaster. California has been underwater before and in very recent times. We are not as safe as we would like to think we are.
We lived on a farm outside Palmdale. Our well level kept going down (29feet down, then 50, then 75 feet, 85 feet last) as greedy contractors and landowners kept sucking out more water. Rich guys like WallStreetJournal and Buffet say water will be the next oil.
@Succ The hedgehog getting in bed with companies that trash, damage, or destroy the environment for kickbacks, pollution rampantcy, and other factors and corporations out there that they make shady deals with
@@Thirdwardwolf yes, very much so. California has an abundance of resources few states do yet they squander it all on their perverted agenda. You should know that as well
The Imperial Valley was once, millennia ago, under water and connected to the ocean. An uplift closed it off from the ocean, and over a million years it filled in with blown dust. So it will subside and form a long, deep valley much like it was when under water.
I would like to an update on on this as it has been a few years and wondering how much has sank since and how the water has affected crops. Very informative video thank you
It isn't the state pumping water. It's farmers. If the farmers somehow built their own desalination plant, California would fight the pipeline to the valley. If the pipeline ever was built, California would shut down the desalination plant because their "scientists" would say the farmers were turning the ocean into freshwater and endangering all saltwater marine life. The farmers are pumping because Sacramento would rather watch all the water flow into SF bay than let the farmers and communities use it. This is a government caused situation
This is a ridiculous idea. Desalination is incredibly costly and environmentally destructive. You need massive amounts of energy to boil literally billions of gallons of water.
@Jy Byrd That's really good news! I love California. I have relatives there. I'm in Texas. We've had more than enough rain. Would you know anything about Lake Mead/Hoover Dam area current water levels?
U guys need to slow the flow of water via vegetation and marsh and stop the drilling. Open air farming in the dessert is not sustainable even with desalination plants pouring water into tge system
2018 and my friends in CA aren't out of the woods yet. Mother Nature ALWAYS has the last word. This is how deserts are formed . . . RE-formed in many cases. If these areas are not covered with natural grasses, shrubs and/or crops to hold it in place when the rains return, flooding is guaranteed. Time to get my garden enlarged.
Why should that surprise anyone? California's water table beneath earth's surface has been drained for years, the displacement is bound to affect the surface! A native Californian and resident there for most of my life, I left there 20 years ago because the Golden State was becoming tarnished. I loved my State, but found it best to leave and I'm glad I did!
@@roymyers549 NEVER!! You can be sure of that! I am in the lower mountains of another still pretty much north-western State now, in a fairly small town, it's beautiful, with none of the problems where I left! I am far more relaxed, healthier and happier!
@@roymyers549 I love Montana, I visit there when I can, it's a great State with great people. Maybe you'll get back some day; there's always tomorrow or next year, good luck to you.
@Amygdala I grow my own too. My point is quit blaming others if you are paying them to provide for you. It's like blaming the drug dealer for your addiction or their toxic waste production that you are paying them to produce.
@@danoarmstrong2597I agree with that but I have a feeling if those that leave are sick and tired of droves of illegal immigrants, protecting criminals via sanctuary state, no moderate housing prices and high taxes, then they will change their vote!
@@millerjoan Hope so, but I have seen a lot of Californians move to my state (Montana), thinking they were hard core republicans, until they meet us locals (we tend to be more libertarian). Then, by comparison, they see they are not really conservatives. We have already lost one city to them (Missoula), which went from red to blue because of them. They stated welcoming muslim refugees, and voting for gun control. Needless to say, Californians ain't all that welcome anymore.
@@earlbrooks7874 How did you decide the San Andres was overdue? it takes a couple hundred years and it's only been 113 years. It's the Hayward fault that's overdue.
If it wasn't for Los Angeles, water from the American River could be used to irrigate the central valley. It appears grass lawns in LA are more important than this damage to the most productive farmland on Earth. Only in California. ....
douglas carpenter you are right. Why are the Democrats, and also stop making excuses why you why they haven't done anything to help their state survive the Democrats so far. They keep voting them in again and again.
Guilford News Network 74 million kids murdered where? I know they're trying to pass the Bill where you can murder a newborn baby if the mother wants it that way. So you may be right, I wouldn't put it past them. But I would like to know where the 74 million kids were murdered. I truly do hope the Democrats all voted out on their asses and never elected again.
@Meadow Apple long ago.... the entire state was under water you fucking idiot. Maybe why we are able to find fossilized sea shells and evidence of sea life at 5,000' up to 9,000' above sea level in Nevada and the Sierra. Lake Bonneville ring a bell Moron? That AssCrackiforniaStan education at its finest!
@Meadow Apple I think that they're talking about a very, very, very long time ago. Not a couple hundred years. Here is a link to something showing what they mean. And it isnt only this person that came to this theory either. I've seen it elsewhere in other academic journals as well. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2434633/What-North-America-looked-like-550-million-years-ago.html
in excessive pumping up and using ground water, there is also the danger of higher mineral salts layering and destroying the surface soil for agricultural purposes ~
@Karen T There will be jobs making, repairing,& programming, the robots. Other jobs will be manufacturing the components for robots, windmills, & inventing new technology,etc. I wish someone could think of a way to get rid of garbage, think of a way to make it decompose faster..
@@wilecatrexy WOW & you know this How? Negativity.. There will be humans on the planet we will be doing something. I watched a TH-cam video regarding this topic & people right now are developing jobs for humans that robots cannot do. Educate yourself instead of being negative. Better yet invent a business that employs humans.. you might even become a millionaire.
Me too ! Always check for rattlers first. You can get bit even walking downhill and stepping off a ledge. I live in West Texas, so they are a problem here.
Build dams, and reservoirs, like your grandfathers had planned. Or don’t.,hows that speed rail working out in Fresno? How much water could have been saved with those funds?
It's a shame to the US that one of your most prosperous region like California doesn't have a HSR. The amount of supply side economics is phenomenal and revolutionary. Just the land sale around a high speed rail line can pay for the line itself. And the greatest shame, China built 20,000km in a decade, you lot have been grumbling about Money for 30 years.
Curious The water shortage is big money. They charge big fines for anyone who uses too much in a home. I also wonder how much of that water is going into fracking. Looks like there is a drill every quarter mile on Google.
California Aquaduct is buckling from land subsidence. High Speed Rail is doomed. Even if they get it running, the tracks will be constantly shifting which will be very costly to maintain.
Kimberly F I know you were joking. I've heard a lot of people joke about it that way. the idiots that didn't know you were joking or probably sitting on a beach in California waiting to watch the show thinking they might get something free out of it. California is a beautiful place, but not for Americans who have worked all their lives or still working trying to feed their kids. It's for the rich or the illegal are the criminal now, not legal, law-abiding Americans anymore. It's a damn shame cuz it is a beautiful place, but that will change for the worst to thanks to the Democrats
Can't just blame pumping of ground water by farmers and cities. A very large portion of mountain snow melt that use to run out into the San Joaquin Valley is very efficiently captured and diverted to southern california rather than recharging the aquafer. And of course less rain and snow means less water for everyone.
I read somewhere that the water is also pumped and stored to sell off. People's wells are drying up for years and simply move away when they can't afford to drill deeper. The water situation there is a quagmire
Not very efficiently... in fact, if they would have spent the 'bullet train' (HA!) money on some better RESERVIORS, there wouldnt BE a fucking problem... !! But NO, gotta waste ALL the monies on STUPID SHIT! On TOP of being a SHITHOLE SANCTUARY STATE!! SANCTUARY FOR WHO??! Certainly not WHITEY! Or my Red brothers...! Ridiculous!!
People in general don't think of what is beneath the ground, that the earth is spinning, that it is flying around the sun with the other planets in our solar system, expanding and more. What will happen if an area where a lot of fracking has been done? We know they cause earthquakes strong enough to damage homes. Islands are sinking even though they are doing nothing to cause it other than home use water. We think too small and too slow.
Insane stats. 25 years? Holy moly. But also the insurance companies growing water guzzling cash crops like almonds to make up for their losses (probably from 08-09) is pretty crazy.
Or a great distraction for the truth that big oil is pumping and fracking the shit out of the state. I suspect it's more the oil than the water. But as always big oil is sooooo important. Trying drinking some when you're thirsty, or watering the farms with it. Enjoy1
CA was predicted to fall into the sea 50-60 years ago because of the plates moving underground along with other areas around the world. Changes that have happened since Day one along with environment, weather patterns, many recorded by those who witness them at those times. Mankind needs to make changes and adapt like plants/animals always have.
I made a suggestion to a guy one time .if you can pipe oil why not water from other ares ,like Oregon or Washington state.that guy came unglued .but I said just during the rainy season ,pump it back in the aquifer
We in CA feed the nation...but Jerry Moonbeam and now Gaven Noisesome would rather take down dams and let water run into the Pacific. To 'save the planet' no doubt. God bless the farmers.
Picture of 40 plus feet subsidence near Mendota in my 1968 Geology 101 textbook. More water can be stored in the Valley underground aquifer than by any number of reservoirs added to the Calif. Rivers. The benefit of storing underground in plus water years, less subsidence.
What about desalinization sea water plants to pump and replace water from underground - it sounds nuts and costly but it will cost more yearly for flood damages and etc...
Chris, my man, you’re an idiot. Trump stands up to any world leader and doesn’t take any shit from them. Record low unimployment, record high stock market, thriving economy freedom of speech even if your crowd doesn’t want it. Prepare for a landslide in 2020 my friend. Things are just too good in America right now, and it’s on Donald’s watch. Socialism sucks, won’t work out here, you can move.
This might also contribute to sinkholes as well. It`s a difficult problem considering the farmers do need the water and these farms feed most of the nation not to mention exports. Some kind of task force should be put in place to consider different options.
Wouldn't this create a massive sink hole as the pressure in the place of the underground water being pumped would change so there's not as much holding the land up above ?
I disagree. More than half the nuts come from California. They watch as their state is destroyed but keep electing the DemocRats to run it. That's nuts.
I appreciate you taking the time to research and write this article. There are multiple simple solutions to stop this process. Plenty of water and can easily be redirected to refill the water table. Now if we can just get the state to stop creating the drought conditions we will have solved the farmers problems. If you want to do something about this contact me.
Whats the cost of desalination, pumping to the farmland, and reversing the wells to put water back into the subterranean reservoirs. Pumping desalinated water back into these well to help stop the sinking. Question is which option is cheaper: billions in repairs or desalination stations, pipelines, and reverse pumping? And will replacing the water used eventually inflate the area back up? Doesn't seem likely we'll be able to raise the land back up. But we sure can stop the sinking and refill the underground reserves in the event they are needed in the future. Is this one giant aquifer we can use to distribute water with a single input well? Cheers from Seattle.
Mycel When facing billions, not millions, in damage from the sinking land, one has to wonder if the cost to pump desalinated water to the area is a cost efficient means to prevent billions in damage. Sinking 2 inches a month is a serious issue!
in like a refugee Is it more expensive than the billions in damages to the areas infastructure if we continue removing water from the aquifer? The failing leves are a direct result of the sinking. The land is sinking at 2 inches a month during the dryest months of farming. Either stop the farming or find a new water source. Even if we suddenly stop the wells the land will continue to sink until it hit the water table and is once supported by the water. How long will it continue to sink after the wells are plugged? We don't know the answer because there is no record of how much is being pumped out. The worst part is they simply flood their fields rather than directly watering the plants with specialized irrigation equipment. Millions of gallons is lost to evaporation this way. The largest water resource we have is the ocean. The more we utilize it, the cheaper the process becomes.
Cameron Hollis Smoke another joint, have a latte, and go snowboarding the rest of the day and let the real scientists figure out how to fix stuff Cameron. Mom.
The Oroville Dam supplies California farmers 60% of their water. This water comes from the mountain streams and rivers. Whats happening underground is mostly from fracking. You cant remove that much oil and gas without some consequences. Look at how much drilling into the crust is going on in the southern part of the valley. Millions of wells litter the area. And look where most of the sinking is occurring
Time to take the state house to the whipping shed. The efforts to destroy the wonderful capabilities of this state and our farmers, Everything needs to be investigated. The water in California has always been a point of contention and criminal activity. Revamp the entire process. Good honest management is the key.
I'm living in southern California NOW, in July, 2019. I don't really believe it is sinking, but what IS true is, more and MORE new houses are being built, MORE new apartment buildings are taking up more space less than 10 miles from the beach, and two-story houses have already been built on those TALL Palos Verdes mountains, NO, I don't live in those,thank goodness. These are absolute facts, now, at this moment.
Couldn't the subsidence be caused by now-empty underground caverns/streams that have been emptied of their water for irrigation? Much of California is almost desert and needs a lot of water to grow crops.
so now its 2019 and everything is still functioning. How much of tax payer dollars were diverted due to this doomsday article. Its all about research grants; follow the money.
I remember as a teenager in 70s how much the land had dropped even then. So 40 +years ago it may be in line for a biblical drench. Not to mention the salt accumulation
This is what happens when you have people that are running your state that don't know what they're doing. During the times of lots of rain and flooding you should have reservoirs ready to contain those waters for use but you are so set on the idea the climate is getting hotter and it will never change that you are not thinking about mother nature and that this has been happening over the span of time that the Earth has been here the Earth gets warmer it gets colder and it's not because we have cars and it's not because we have cows that fart it's because it is the way it is. To keep California green you're going to have to have reservoirs that contain the water that falls from the sky and not let that water run into the ocean. Is there any reason the Farmers can't have their own reservoirs?
bob,when you boil it down there are those who want and embrace forward motion,and then there are those who control everything,they want to take us back to the good ol days of slavery and debauchery that existed in the 10th century for their amusement and demonic egos
One of the biggest crops in CA is rice. If you have ever flown over the central valley, you can see all the flooded fields of rice. They also flood irrigate other crops too.
_"desalinate the Sea it's easy pessy pumpkin squeezie"_ If you're made out of money, maybe. For everybody else, it's more expensive and more of a PITA than every other alternative. To desalinate water, you've got to distill EVERY drop of it; boil it away and recollect. That takes a LOT of energy, and thus a lot of money. The only nations that regularly get most of their fresh water this way are the stupidly-rich Gulf States.
Ok this was published back in 2015 by now that land should be 6ft deeper I'm sure It would be catastrophic by now. Is there any update or is this just bogus???
Joe Trueblood There was heavy rains in Feb 2017 that filled to overflowing (and flooding and evacuations) in Feb 2017 all Resevoirs in Northern California. Maybe that helped restore some. We just had another heavy rain go through the state...would have been better BEFORE the fires.
Joe Trueblood I can see the water from my home and there is a downhill section before it goes uphill to my house so I’ll let you know if I’m ever beachfront property
The Anglese basin has been sinking since the oil draw of the signal hills exploration. CattleMen hills in southwestern Central valley has a inpressive subsidance since the oil work there. It is the water table drop in the Central valley that is disturbing as the recharge will take years since the rivers out of the Sierra are dammed.
An added problem is that when rain does come, it seems to come in more extreme downpours. There is a partial solution to this. Get absolutely fanatic about having beavers in all the river catchments. By holding the water on the land during these severe rainfall events, water is directed down into the ground instead of flowing straight down to the sea and being wasted. Beavers cause the ground water to be recharged.
Approximately 5000 years ago, The Sahara was a lush jungle with lots of rivers and lakes. The earth is always changing.
SO TRUE......SCIENTISTS CAN LOOK AT ALL THE ICE CORES AND IT TELLS A ACCURATE STORY ON HOW MUCH CLIMATE CHG. HAS EFFECTED EARTH FROM DAY ONE
The main problem is that people are focused on LeBron's new jersey & what one of the Kardashian family tweeted instead of such literally earth-shattering issues of today.
Tick tock. The planet will continue on with or without human civilization.
What's going on with the Kardashians.. did I miss anything
Could the earth continue without human civilization?
I always laugh when we say "we are killing the planet". The planet will continue just fine. We just won't be here.
Wolfreign Valenford: So you seem like a nice normal guy, do you like puppies as much as I do? What’s your favorite ice cream?
Somebody finally gets it. Take a selfie and tweet it around the world
How about all the water that Nestle is pumping everyday?
Holy crap!! CA won't break off in the Pacific, it'll just lower so much, the Pacific will breach and then CA will be under water!
Salty water joins with salty leftie tears .
king and Country so pathetic. You’re joking about your fellow Americans suffering. Also California provides a large percentage of what you eat so you will suffer if they do.
All of California's sports teams then can be named after fish. Good thing they don't waste any of that water on fires.
rob1248996 1/10 of food made in the US comes from Cali and 99% of many foods are grown there. Good luck
Same result. Just slower than actually breaking off. Still sinking into the Pacific.
California use to be the place everybody wanted to go now everybody's running away
I did, and NEVER looked back.
@Eaxl Just across the border to the east is very reachable
Tina Hachey we did 1yr ago they can have it
@@karenrollins1469 I left too (about 5 years ago), though it cost me $1,400 to escape; ain't ever goinin' back to live
@@michaelbelt8768 It's expensive here, depending on where you live but I live in a retirement community with very low rent and a sizable disability check. I got no reason to leave and have my rent go up and get on some other list for subsidized living.
I can't stand the urban areas anymore. Too many people, too much traffic.
I hated living in California. Excessively high taxes, phenomenal traffic congestion, declining infrastrure and a closed minded political system that says only our way is correct.
and heavy chemtrail ..no more dark blue sky...R.I.P. USA 😎
Martin Rademakers I lived there 38 years and it use to be a real nice place in the 70s and before but now it’s the worst place in the country to live. I have never been happier since I left. Living way better too for less money, a lot less.
Glad you left, and don't go back.
Sounds Like New Jersey where live
We got out in '03. An answer to my prayers.
'Nearly half of the nation's fruits, nuts and vegetables are grown in California' ...Ain't THAT the truth!
Yes California is the land of the fruits and nuts !!!
Fruitcakes, nutters and veggie brains more like it.
@Richard Conner well that's easy. STOP BUYING GAS ! get an electric car
Yes, and the other half of the fruits and nuts live there......... Ain't THAT the truth!
@Richard Conner enjoy the democratic state.. if you look at all Democrat states it's high taxes... I'm so lucky
During the Civil War, the entire San Juaquin Valley was under water. Many towns were wiped forever off the map. Marysville and Sacramento rebuilt after it finally dried out. They had nothing to drain the rivers to the ocean. From south of Bakersfield where the mountain range starts and up to Redding and the mountains of Mt. Shasta were under water. There was no coverage of this due to the Civil War. I researched it and saw many photos. Huge disaster. California has been underwater before and in very recent times. We are not as safe as we would like to think we are.
In the 1860's there was so much rain in California's central valley you could actually sail from San Francisco bay to the outskirts of Bakersfield.
really - how do you know this?
@@theronwinsby Just Google it. It's in the written history of California. Since I was born there I studied CA's history a lot. Thanks for asking.
We lived on a farm outside Palmdale. Our well level kept going down (29feet down, then 50, then 75 feet, 85 feet last) as greedy contractors and landowners kept sucking out more water. Rich guys like WallStreetJournal and Buffet say water will be the next oil.
I'm sure somewhere in this conversation there's a new tax.
Now That's Funny!
@nrawayne Maxine Waters has an I.Q.?
@nrawayne rather give the money to illegals than fucking lazy pieces of shits that are on Gov Welfare.
@@pennywisetheclown2557 Her IQ is Impeach "45"
@@pennywisetheclown2557; for u wanna come down here kid? In RENO? Behind the statium huh?/ I know where you sleep 2
Calli Politicians are sucking the life right out of that beautiful state
i dont know about the beautiful part there are to damb many pepole there for it to be beautiful
it's gone
@Succ The hedgehog getting in bed with companies that trash, damage, or destroy the environment for kickbacks, pollution rampantcy, and other factors and corporations out there that they make shady deals with
@Succ The hedgehog Politicians have a lot to do with conservation of water and response to the droughts.
@Succ The hedgehog you're an idiot not worth the education.
Billions and Billions of tax payers dollars are also be wasted on a failing "high speed rail" project in this area too.
Nothing will be done until they're faced with an absolute crisis.
Then beg for federal tax money for their dimwit decisions
Independant Thinker you realize that there are over 30 more states that are more federally dependent than Cali? Most of them are red btw
@@Thirdwardwolf yes, very much so. California has an abundance of resources few states do yet they squander it all on their perverted agenda. You should know that as well
Independant Thinker yeah, they’re debt to assets ratio is horrendous.
Thank you for describing the entire U.S.
The Imperial Valley was once, millennia ago, under water and connected to the ocean. An uplift closed it off from the ocean, and over a million years it filled in with blown dust. So it will subside and form a long, deep valley much like it was when under water.
I would like to an update on on this as it has been a few years and wondering how much has sank since and how the water has affected crops. Very informative video thank you
For all that they've spent on pumping up ground water, they could have built desalinization plants and transferred ocean water inland.
littgaia Too true, in fact California has desal plants already built but don't use it.
Yea but that makes to much sense for California.
You nailed it.
It isn't the state pumping water. It's farmers. If the farmers somehow built their own desalination plant, California would fight the pipeline to the valley. If the pipeline ever was built, California would shut down the desalination plant because their "scientists" would say the farmers were turning the ocean into freshwater and endangering all saltwater marine life.
The farmers are pumping because Sacramento would rather watch all the water flow into SF bay than let the farmers and communities use it. This is a government caused situation
This is a ridiculous idea. Desalination is incredibly costly and environmentally destructive. You need massive amounts of energy to boil literally billions of gallons of water.
With the way that state is being run sinking in the ocean is probably the best thing for it..
Haha . true
Except it will be the Golden gate bridge;
@@Skateborder1 oh ya let's bottle some more Dasini
It should be Florida if you are going by people
@@shartmeself if we are going by the people then NYC and Chicago should be added..
The most interesting part is all the food we grow in this country and we send it overseas as we get the same products backs from other ones. So stupid
Tip: reaching under an overhanging slab into the shady interior of a potential rattlesnake habitat is probably unwise.
lol was thinking same thing... im like why in the world would you do that lol.
Video was October 9th 2015! What's going on in May of 2019? Seems like they've been getting rain the last couple of years.
Thank you for the dates.
Finally someone bothers to check the date of this video! 😂
@Jy Byrd That's really good news! I love California. I have relatives there. I'm in Texas. We've had more than enough rain. Would you know anything about Lake Mead/Hoover Dam area current water levels?
U guys need to slow the flow of water via vegetation and marsh and stop the drilling.
Open air farming in the dessert is not sustainable even with desalination plants pouring water into tge system
2018 and my friends in CA aren't out of the woods yet.
Mother Nature ALWAYS has the last word. This is how deserts are formed . . . RE-formed in many cases.
If these areas are not covered with natural grasses, shrubs and/or crops to hold it in place when the rains return, flooding is guaranteed.
Time to get my garden enlarged.
And this was 4 years ago. I wonder how it's progressed since then.
Was just thinking the same thing lol
who knows what to believe these days.
Why should that surprise anyone? California's water table beneath earth's surface has been drained for years, the displacement is bound to affect the surface! A native Californian and resident there for most of my life, I left there 20 years ago because the Golden State was becoming tarnished. I loved my State, but found it best to leave and I'm glad I did!
i dont know where you moved to but just dont try to make it like what you left
@@roymyers549 NEVER!! You can be sure of that! I am in the lower mountains of another still pretty much north-western State now, in a fairly small town, it's beautiful, with none of the problems where I left! I am far more relaxed, healthier and happier!
@@MJLeger-yj1ww good i wish i was back in montana but i can not aford it
@@roymyers549 I love Montana, I visit there when I can, it's a great State with great people. Maybe you'll get back some day; there's always tomorrow or next year, good luck to you.
@@MJLeger-yj1ww i can always hope thank you
One of the laws of physics: For every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction. No room to wiggle.
The old professor
Correction...that was nanny professor who said that.
Very true Clan
From 1:41 to 1:49 there is a road and bridge behind her.. Are they saying that road and bridge were also repaired over time dropping by that much?
It's falling apart everywhere!!! Too much pocketing goin on!!!!
It's your fault if you eat fruit, vegies and nuts.
@Amygdala I grow my own too. My point is quit blaming others if you are paying them to provide for you. It's like blaming the drug dealer for your addiction or their toxic waste production that you are paying them to produce.
The smartest and most sensible folks are or have already moved from California. So, too bad for the rest!
Just as long as those who fled, don't start voting democrat in their new states, so the same stupid policies get enacted all over again.
@@danoarmstrong2597I agree with that but I have a feeling if those that leave are sick and tired of droves of illegal immigrants, protecting criminals via sanctuary state, no moderate housing prices and high taxes, then they will change their vote!
@@millerjoan Hope so, but I have seen a lot of Californians move to my state (Montana), thinking they were hard core republicans, until they meet us locals (we tend to be more libertarian). Then, by comparison, they see they are not really conservatives. We have already lost one city to them (Missoula), which went from red to blue because of them. They stated welcoming muslim refugees, and voting for gun control. Needless to say, Californians ain't all that welcome anymore.
left there in 1997 .moved to the south . red state .
@@danoarmstrong2597 I just moved to and left Montana... blue as blue gets. Good luck you libertarian pussies.
If.... California would manage their waterways. Reservoirs build dams to keep what comes from the sky. They would never need to drill.
Brown made it illegal to do so. That man is crazy. A true loony toons.
Yeah add more weight to an already overrue San Andres fault. Smart.
Earth just needs its mass extinction event
Back from 1912-1960 they found ways to hold water and not dump it all into the ocean.
Imagine that
@@billp6016You can thank Brown and Clinton for that mess. Their Green Forest Program.
@@earlbrooks7874 How did you decide the San Andres was overdue? it takes a couple hundred years and it's only been 113 years. It's the Hayward fault that's overdue.
If it wasn't for Los Angeles, water from the American River could be used to irrigate the central valley. It appears grass lawns in LA are more important than this damage to the most productive farmland on Earth. Only in California. ....
They grow lots of food in the valley.
What’s really scary is when all those politicians pack up and leave what’ll be their new home states...now that’s bone chilling🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
What ever the solution the Politicians will just blame and tax normal people.
douglas carpenter you are right. Why are the Democrats, and also stop making excuses why you why they haven't done anything to help their state survive the Democrats so far. They keep voting them in again and again.
I have a sinking feeling California's days are numbered.
I'll watch from high ground.
The rest of us don't give a fuck,just waiting 4 thier next earthquake that's sure gony b a hoot lol
David Maccormack I don't want to see anybody die, not even dumbass Democrats and their voters. that's their way of doing things not ours.
Guilford News Network 74 million kids murdered where? I know they're trying to pass the Bill where you can murder a newborn baby if the mother wants it that way. So you may be right, I wouldn't put it past them. But I would like to know where the 74 million kids were murdered. I truly do hope the Democrats all voted out on their asses and never elected again.
Walter Palmer way to get rid of illegals they can all move back to Mexico lol
@@patriciagamble4978 74 million abortions.
california showed as an island on older maps . So I guess its returning to its origin
would love a link to that!
@Meadow Apple Actually it's true.
@Meadow Apple long ago.... the entire state was under water you fucking idiot. Maybe why we are able to find fossilized sea shells and evidence of sea life at 5,000' up to 9,000' above sea level in Nevada and the Sierra. Lake Bonneville ring a bell Moron?
That AssCrackiforniaStan education at its finest!
@Meadow Apple Damn you're dumb as fuck!
@Meadow Apple I think that they're talking about a very, very, very long time ago. Not a couple hundred years. Here is a link to something showing what they mean. And it isnt only this person that came to this theory either. I've seen it elsewhere in other academic journals as well.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2434633/What-North-America-looked-like-550-million-years-ago.html
What's the status now?
If California floods they can grow RICE!!
Steve Galvan Yep. San Francisco is already being fertilized like Korea used to for growing rice. Feces in the streets.
They already do grow rice, and have for years!
Well i am still eating california rice, but the problem is the whole california will sink, only L.A city survive as an island.
in excessive pumping up and using ground water, there is also the danger of higher mineral salts layering and destroying the surface soil for agricultural purposes ~
One of these days. some genius is going to wake up and ask "What in the hell have we done?" By then and it might be too late now it WILL be too late.
I see you're asking, but, are you AWAKE?
@Karen T There will be jobs making, repairing,& programming, the robots. Other jobs will be manufacturing the components for robots, windmills, & inventing new technology,etc. I wish someone could think of a way to get rid of garbage, think of a way to make it decompose faster..
@@wakranich3488 then eventually the robots will be so far advanced to the point of repairing and building themselves. Well you'll be obsolete.
And if there is a genius that says that it sure won't be on the left.
@@wilecatrexy WOW & you know this How? Negativity.. There will be humans on the planet we will be doing something. I watched a TH-cam video regarding this topic & people right now are developing jobs for humans that robots cannot do. Educate yourself instead of being negative. Better yet invent a business that employs humans.. you might even become a millionaire.
Overthrow the government and save California.
Don't save it...just the wall
No will to fight.
When that guy stuck his hand in the crack I thought for sure he was going to get bit by a rattlesnake for a split second
Oh, i was expecting pennywise to grab him.
The snakes in Cali. are vegan.
Looked like he thought so too.
Me too ! Always check for rattlers first. You can get bit even walking downhill and stepping off a ledge. I live in West Texas, so they are a problem here.
Into The Mystery you need to stop taking those drugs again
Don't worry because more taxes will solve the problem.
Just ban hour dogs like New York is doing along with higher taxes and free everything, and that will solve everything
Now all that poop and trash on the streets will end up in the ocean?
Build dams, and reservoirs, like your grandfathers had planned. Or don’t.,hows that speed rail working out in Fresno? How much water could have been saved with those funds?
It's a shame to the US that one of your most prosperous region like California doesn't have a HSR. The amount of supply side economics is phenomenal and revolutionary. Just the land sale around a high speed rail line can pay for the line itself. And the greatest shame, China built 20,000km in a decade, you lot have been grumbling about Money for 30 years.
Curious
The water shortage is big money. They charge big fines for anyone who uses too much in a home. I also wonder how much of that water is going into fracking. Looks like there is a drill every quarter mile on Google.
The politicians don't care that the infrastructure is falling apart, they can just reloacte to one of their 100+ homes in any of the other states.
California Aquaduct is buckling from land subsidence. High Speed Rail is doomed. Even if they get it running, the tracks will be constantly shifting which will be very costly to maintain.
Why don’t ya’ll catch rain water why not clean around your forest get the dead shit out be easier to control for the next fire
Nothing is forever. All things must pass.
That is history's lesson.
Or sink lol
Did you mention that all this well drilling was specifically caused by the restrictions placed on the use of river water...to protect the Delta Smelt?
That’s ok.... we have been waiting for that Oceanside property in AZ for a while now. Let it fall in the ocean....
Continue the good work started ny Lex Luthor before Superman meddled.
Not soon enough
Fuck that shit hole state
All of your negative comments make YOU all look stupid cuz it was a joke....idiots! Obviously what I said would never actually happen.
Kimberly F I know you were joking. I've heard a lot of people joke about it that way. the idiots that didn't know you were joking or probably sitting on a beach in California waiting to watch the show thinking they might get something free out of it. California is a beautiful place, but not for Americans who have worked all their lives or still working trying to feed their kids. It's for the rich or the illegal are the criminal now, not legal, law-abiding Americans anymore. It's a damn shame cuz it is a beautiful place, but that will change for the worst to thanks to the Democrats
Ok , it’s August 2019, a year later and as usual, just kick the can down the road until there is no can to kick Winter 2020 good luck California
Can't just blame pumping of ground water by farmers and cities. A very large portion of mountain snow melt that use to run out into the San Joaquin Valley is very efficiently captured and diverted to southern california rather than recharging the aquafer. And of course less rain and snow means less water for everyone.
I read somewhere that the water is also pumped and stored to sell off. People's wells are drying up for years and simply move away when they can't afford to drill deeper. The water situation there is a quagmire
Not very efficiently... in fact, if they would have spent the 'bullet train' (HA!) money on some better RESERVIORS, there wouldnt BE a fucking problem... !! But NO, gotta waste ALL the monies on STUPID SHIT! On TOP of being a SHITHOLE SANCTUARY STATE!! SANCTUARY FOR WHO??! Certainly not WHITEY! Or my Red brothers...! Ridiculous!!
It's now 2019...what's the follow up in this story??
People in general don't think of what is beneath the ground, that the earth is spinning, that it is flying around the sun with the other planets in our solar system, expanding and more.
What will happen if an area where a lot of fracking has been done? We know they cause earthquakes strong enough to damage homes. Islands are sinking even though they are doing nothing to cause it other than home use water. We think too small and too slow.
2019, I think it will burn up before it sinks...
@D. R. California is doing an excellent job of destroying itself...
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Was listening to this earlier today
If you take water from the ground then you sink and sink because there are big spaces under the ground
Hurry, send them biodegradable life vests. The ones that dissolve when wet.
Make good fish food as full of nutrients as so much shit in them
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No plastic!
Lol.
4 years later, not a major problem
Insane stats. 25 years? Holy moly. But also the insurance companies growing water guzzling cash crops like almonds to make up for their losses (probably from 08-09) is pretty crazy.
Or a great distraction for the truth that big oil is pumping and fracking the shit out of the state. I suspect it's more the oil than the water. But as always big oil is sooooo important. Trying drinking some when you're thirsty, or watering the farms with it. Enjoy1
Don't forget all the water they use to keep golf courses green. God FORBID something happen to the country clubs... but you mentioned almonds(food)???
CA was predicted to fall into the sea 50-60 years ago because of the plates moving underground along with other areas around the world. Changes that have happened since Day one along with environment, weather patterns, many recorded by those who witness them at those times. Mankind needs to make changes and adapt like plants/animals always have.
I don’t think it’s possible for California the sink any further than they have in the last couple years
Oh Yeah? Here hold my beer and watch this. . .
Almonds use up more water than all the other crops combined. They were planted to absorb excess water so farmers didn't have to give it up.
how long befor it is part of the ocean and you are right california dose produce a lot of nuts
Finally some good news....But if it does sink I imagine Liberals will say the sea has risen
nw5052001 😆😆😆😆😆
Lol agree
The liberal state is the greatest state and the conservative state are broke af. Just wanted to say that thanks.
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if they raise the taxes, they can prevent this sinking after a ten year study by the families of politicians
Your Grandfather left Texas for California? Well, that was a mistake right there. Hello from Houston.
@Sally Hillal I don't live in TX anymore and just hearing that saddens me 😞😞😞
@Sally Hillal
I don't think so.....are they SHITTIN in the streets of Dallas?
Houston is no better.
@@1969CampEvans Ummm, I would say Austin instead of Dallas.
Yeah, sure miss those hurricanes, Tex.
I made a suggestion to a guy one time .if you can pipe oil why not water from other ares ,like Oregon or Washington state.that guy came unglued .but I said just during the rainy season ,pump it back in the aquifer
We in CA feed the nation...but Jerry Moonbeam and now Gaven Noisesome would rather take down dams and let water run into the Pacific. To 'save the planet' no doubt. God bless the farmers.
i dont beleave that cal feeds that much of the nation
Well said!
Educated farmers have the opportunity to be the smartest citizens if it were not for government overreach.
Picture of 40 plus feet subsidence near Mendota in my 1968 Geology 101 textbook. More water can be stored in the Valley underground aquifer than by any number of reservoirs added to the Calif. Rivers. The benefit of storing underground in plus water years, less subsidence.
What about desalinization sea water plants to pump and replace water from underground - it sounds nuts and costly but it will cost more yearly for flood damages and etc...
We learn from pumping groundwater out that it destroys ecosystems it was tried in Arizona and all it did was create sinkholes and landslides
How? With some solar panels? LMAO
Are there still plants off shore extracting salt for table salt? Could pipe desalinized water to land for irrigation.
To say California produces most of the country's nuts is an understatement
Chris, my man, you’re an idiot. Trump stands up to any world leader and doesn’t take any shit from them. Record low unimployment, record high stock market, thriving economy freedom of speech even if your crowd doesn’t want it. Prepare for a landslide in 2020 my friend. Things are just too good in America right now, and it’s on Donald’s watch. Socialism sucks, won’t work out here, you can move.
"More than half the nation's fruits . . . and nuts are produced here." I already knew that.
i'd say 99%
Yep. Fruit flakes n nuts state. Lol.
There is a lot more to this article then just that kid! Duh!
This might also contribute to sinkholes as well. It`s a difficult problem considering the farmers do need the water and these farms feed most of the nation not to mention exports. Some kind of task force should be put in place to consider different options.
Curious if there is an update status for 2018?
Wouldn't this create a massive sink hole as the pressure in the place of the underground water being pumped would change so there's not as much holding the land up above ?
the most honest point made on this video is that over half the nations nuts come from California! 4:15
actual nuts don't digest in our system they taste good but we just shit them out so who in the hell needs nuts
I disagree. More than half the nuts come from California. They watch as their state is destroyed but keep electing the DemocRats to run it. That's nuts.
I read that average IQ of all that voted for tRump, ? Lower than average IQ’s. 😳🤔👀😂😂😂
Plenty of NUTS in OHIO also. GO BUCKEYES!!!
I appreciate you taking the time to research and write this article. There are multiple simple solutions to stop this process. Plenty of water and can easily be redirected to refill the water table. Now if we can just get the state to stop creating the drought conditions we will have solved the farmers problems. If you want to do something about this contact me.
Whats the cost of desalination, pumping to the farmland, and reversing the wells to put water back into the subterranean reservoirs. Pumping desalinated water back into these well to help stop the sinking. Question is which option is cheaper: billions in repairs or desalination stations, pipelines, and reverse pumping? And will replacing the water used eventually inflate the area back up? Doesn't seem likely we'll be able to raise the land back up. But we sure can stop the sinking and refill the underground reserves in the event they are needed in the future. Is this one giant aquifer we can use to distribute water with a single input well?
Cheers from Seattle.
Desalination is expensive dude, too expensive for agricultural needs.
Mycel When facing billions, not millions, in damage from the sinking land, one has to wonder if the cost to pump desalinated water to the area is a cost efficient means to prevent billions in damage. Sinking 2 inches a month is a serious issue!
in like a refugee Is it more expensive than the billions in damages to the areas infastructure if we continue removing water from the aquifer? The failing leves are a direct result of the sinking. The land is sinking at 2 inches a month during the dryest months of farming. Either stop the farming or find a new water source. Even if we suddenly stop the wells the land will continue to sink until it hit the water table and is once supported by the water. How long will it continue to sink after the wells are plugged? We don't know the answer because there is no record of how much is being pumped out. The worst part is they simply flood their fields rather than directly watering the plants with specialized irrigation equipment. Millions of gallons is lost to evaporation this way. The largest water resource we have is the ocean. The more we utilize it, the cheaper the process becomes.
The other problem is the eco activists protest most of the solutions for water and energy.
Cameron Hollis Smoke another joint, have a latte, and go snowboarding the rest of the day and let the real scientists figure out how to fix stuff Cameron. Mom.
How could the land sink this much 1:45 and not damage the road beds, homes and buildings in the area?
Both the US and Russia have been hit hard with loss of cattle, crops. Seasonal planting is gone for many. Food prices will rise.
When California sink make sure the I.R.S. goes down with it🤣🤣
The IRS isn't American. They're in the U.K. Not U.S.
I don't give a shit where it is !!
Keep up the good work and let it sink below sea level🌊🎉
The Oroville Dam supplies California farmers 60% of their water. This water comes from the mountain streams and rivers. Whats happening underground is mostly from fracking. You cant remove that much oil and gas without some consequences. Look at how much drilling into the crust is going on in the southern part of the valley. Millions of wells litter the area. And look where most of the sinking is occurring
So California is going to be underwater before Florida
:)
NO it wont be.....
Let's hope so.
@TakeanL and all the food they grow (never amazed......by American shortsightedness )
Time to take the state house to the whipping shed. The efforts to destroy the wonderful capabilities of this state and our farmers, Everything needs to be investigated. The water in California has always been a point of contention and criminal activity. Revamp the entire process. Good honest management is the key.
I read the title a few times---Hurray!!! Is there a way to speed this process up?
I'm living in southern California NOW, in July, 2019. I don't really believe it is sinking, but what IS true is, more and MORE new houses are being built, MORE new apartment buildings are taking up more space less than 10 miles from the beach, and two-story houses have already been built on those TALL Palos Verdes mountains, NO, I don't live in those,thank goodness. These are absolute facts, now, at this moment.
Couldn't the subsidence be caused by now-empty underground caverns/streams that have been emptied of their water for irrigation? Much of California is almost desert and needs a lot of water to grow crops.
so now its 2019 and everything is still functioning. How much of tax payer dollars were diverted due to this doomsday article. Its all about research grants; follow the money.
CALIFORNIA SINKING?? CALIFORNIA COULD FLOOD?? Damn, SH!T floats. Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Oregon better pass and enforce sewage regulations.
I remember as a teenager in 70s how much the land had dropped even then. So 40 +years ago it may be in line for a biblical drench. Not to mention the salt accumulation
So, rice will be our new bumper crop ?
This is what happens when you have people that are running your state that don't know what they're doing. During the times of lots of rain and flooding you should have reservoirs ready to contain those waters for use but you are so set on the idea the climate is getting hotter and it will never change that you are not thinking about mother nature and that this has been happening over the span of time that the Earth has been here the Earth gets warmer it gets colder and it's not because we have cars and it's not because we have cows that fart it's because it is the way it is. To keep California green you're going to have to have reservoirs that contain the water that falls from the sky and not let that water run into the ocean. Is there any reason the Farmers can't have their own reservoirs?
But the ones who are voting are stupider the the stupid elected..
There are countries which have perfected desalination - why can't the USA?
bob,when you boil it down there are those who want and embrace forward motion,and then there are those who control everything,they want to take us back to the good ol days of slavery and debauchery that existed in the 10th century for their amusement and demonic egos
A new tax will not stop the land from sinking. The earth is gonna do what its gonna do.
So everyplace they find ground sunk it will be lakes and ponds we the rains and snow melt, and they can grow rice
skeets it will all be desert sunken down like death valley
Ya don't grow rice in a desert, dumbass.
One of the biggest crops in CA is rice. If you have ever flown over the central valley, you can see all the flooded fields of rice. They also flood irrigate other crops too.
_"desalinate the Sea it's easy pessy pumpkin squeezie"_
If you're made out of money, maybe. For everybody else, it's more expensive and more of a PITA than every other alternative.
To desalinate water, you've got to distill EVERY drop of it; boil it away and recollect. That takes a LOT of energy, and thus a lot of money. The only nations that regularly get most of their fresh water this way are the stupidly-rich Gulf States.
I'm gonna buy that beach front Nevada Property in advance 👍😜
Viking Beard.. No, ARIZONA OCEAN beach front property!
You've seen that mural of ocean waves crashing up against the I-10 freeway sign announcing Blythe next exit?
Ocean front property in Arizona too
Can we please speed up this process. Just make sure piglosi and Harris and mad maxine are there when it goes under.
...I cant believe you forgot Feinstein, you should be ashamed !
@@threecreationleather6596 your right ! Hanging my head in shame. Lol
So, how can I contribute to flooding CA? Seems like a good solution to fix all their problems in one go!
California needs to sink faster, now if we could just figure out how to do that too New York City and Seattle .😃
Ok this was published back in 2015 by now that land should be 6ft deeper I'm sure It would be catastrophic by now. Is there any update or is this just bogus???
I don't believe this report. It is another "man-made" global warming :(
ImForgivenToo : I think I saw a lot of Bullshit in this report. My contribution to solving the problem is NOT BUY Kalipornia food
Joe Trueblood There was heavy rains in Feb 2017 that filled to overflowing (and flooding and evacuations) in Feb 2017 all Resevoirs in Northern California. Maybe that helped restore some.
We just had another heavy rain go through the state...would have been better BEFORE the fires.
I go to bed with goggles and a snorkel every night.
Joe Trueblood I can see the water from my home and there is a downhill section before it goes uphill to my house so I’ll let you know if I’m ever beachfront property
Going to laugh when, instead of cali going into the ocean. The ocean goes into Cali.
The Anglese basin has been sinking since the oil draw of the signal hills exploration. CattleMen hills in southwestern Central valley has a inpressive subsidance since the oil work there. It is the water table drop in the Central valley that is disturbing as the recharge will take years since the rivers out of the Sierra are dammed.