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- Strict water restrictions come into force for millions of people in California as the US west coast continues to experience a crippling drought.
Many predict will get even worse during the summer.
People in the state's agricultural heartland, who have been struggling with water shortages and contamination for years, say it’s time for people in metropolitan areas to conserve water and do their part.
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Who'd have thought having lawn mandates and maintaining pristine golf courses in an arid climate was unsustainable. Such a shocker.
Haha that's brilliant!
A lot of golf courses actually use recycled water to water their greens
My friend lives in Utah for her job at a hospital there. She is mandated BY LAW to have a lawn and to have sprinklers to keep it green and lush - which she does not want. She wants desert plants. This is the best bit - this is so American. She is not ALLOWED to cut her own grass she has to pay the approved contractor that belongs to the housing developer to cut her grass...
What a f-ked up messed up country.
@@CricketEngland got to have a decent supply of water to even recycle. And no Cali doesn’t have that luxury
@@jeremyfugarino7901 they recycle toilet and Bath/shower water etc it’s not that difficult just not good for drinking
I live here. Believe me, hardly anyone is acting like we are in a drought in southern California.
are you thinking about moving to other states?
Yep.
@@imranhq13 yes, but it's tricky because I'm taking care of my folks and they want to stay. But we have a lake that supplies our town's water, it is drying up, and wealthy folks are moving here. Water consumption is rapidly increasing, the lake is disappearing, and no one at City Hall has presented a comprehensive plan moving forward so...who knows. 🙄
@@jj-wp6wc Like the frog slowing boiling to death.
Because there isnt one. this is a typical Dem issue to push votes.
*"Anyone who believes in indefinite growth upon a physically finite planet are either mad or an economist"* ~ Sir David Attenborough
Can't a machine like this be made for the water problem? Let's lay the biggest 1.5 kilometer cylindrical sewer pipe in Arabia. But not underground. Let's insulate it with earth. Let's insulate the inputs and outputs like a refrigerator. Can't snow be produced electrically inside like old snow-making refrigerators? What if the same environment is provided in that tunnel by solving the mathematics of refrigerators with frost problems very well, and snow is produced and swells. Wouldn't we have produced water with refrigerator resistances that make huge snow? This system already works with solar energy or wind electricity. Can't this type of structure be researched?
@@basketball78838 Or... maybe people could build rain capture systems and store that water into tanks to utilize later, redesign their yard landscapes for sustainable native plants that limit watering, utilizing compost toilets or limiting flushing, taking more conscious showers or limiting how many showers someone takes, the list goes on. Very practical and something all home owners and individuals can consider. Things that can be done NOW.
California, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, Texas, and New Mexico are all facing crippling droughts.
They only get rain during December-Feb. Are they already out? Did it not rain this winter? (west of Rockies)
south east texas literally drowning though
@@Morristown337 there was barley any rain to make up for the loss. We in California had one good storm but we need 15 of the same storm to make up for the lack of water. The issue is reservoirs are shared for most of Californa with other states as there the biggest but water will go fast if your not getting enough to make that up for the dry months.
@@bellaswan1459 Im sorry. I hope that the warm air coming from the gulf of Mexico mixing with cold air from Rockies giving plentiful rain to the midwest breadbasket never stops any time soon.
@@Mr.Pop0 kinda funny for a minute there i was confused then remembered west texas exists
Yeah, they've been under that same catastrophic drought for the last 20 years. Yet people are still feeling swimming pools and even more mind-blowing is we're still growing almonds in the desert of Southern California at 1200 gallons of water per pound of almonds! That's more than ridiculous! Every other crop takes approximately 2 to 4 gallons per pound. They should outlaw almond trees in California
Omg yes!! And so many people drink almond milk thinking they’re being more conscious of the planet and it’s really not good.
Dude preach. We as a human race are so selfish it’s unreal
My friend lives in Utah for her job at a hospital there. She is mandated BY LAW to have a lawn and to have sprinklers to keep it green and lush - which she does not want. She wants desert plants. This is the best bit - this is so American. She is not ALLOWED to cut her own grass she has to pay the approved contractor that belongs to the housing developer to cut her grass...
What a f-ked up messed up country.
BTW - its not filling the pools thats the problem cos that's a one-off thing - its that they dont have pool covers on them to stop evaporation cos its "inconvenient" to have to remove it when you want to use it.
It is absolutely more than ridiculous.
The industrial sector far outweighs the public sectors use, don't distract from that with something as small as almond trees when you see how much companies think throwing money replenishes water.
Almonds are one of the most water dependent crops to grow, and California grows a ton of it
Avocado too.
Iirc almonds are grown almost exclusively in California
And We don't even need almonds!! Just a snack really
No,... Alonds grow in the worm and dry climate . Mediterranean!
Beef needs twice the water nuts do so they should get rid of the steaks first.
I live in the west and just last week I removed a large part of my front yard grass.
A neighbor whom is in her late 50’s asked me why I did it. I told her. “We’re running out of water and grass is a super resource hog. She responded. “The weather always changes but just wait good times are ahead of us, you should’ve kept the grass.”
I used to believe we could change and fixed climate change. Now I have little to no hope.
Stop watching the news then, that's programmed you to think that way.
fu greenie
Typical boomer response. They got to enjoy all the cheap oil and setup all this destruction for my generation and the next one
She is ignorant like 90% of Americans. Co2 is the driver of a over heating earth and also, the Arctic that is loosing its ice and snow, it is absorbing twice as much heat then when it was covered with snow and ice. Methane is being released in billiosn of tons of melting permofrost. there is about twice as Co2/methane trapped in the arctic permofrost then all of the entire permofost of earth.
you can't fix stupid and ignorance
Eastern Australia went through the same as this 4-6 years ago, now we are having flood after flood. To get through it many things were banned, washing cars, watering your garden or lawn, hosing down your driveway etc.
Yeah I remember what it was like growing up with timed showers and people dobbing neighbours in for watering the garden. Things can get rough.
@@TheKingBrewer Yeah I remember a gunman went to the local public pool and just massacred everybody to conserve water.
Three years of la Nina might have something to do with the flooding on the east coast. What is happening outside of your backyard unseasonably strange weather? We are having thunderstorms in the dry season up north
In Australia, regardless of how much you're encouraged to conserve water, they still want you to pay for it. If the pipe runs past your house, you can't say you don't want it, so there's no reward for people who use water tanks, apart from chlorine and flouride free water. Rates are also costed on the value of the property, nothing to do with water, and sewerage charges on the number of toilets. I know it's a difficult concept for some governments to grasp, but if they want people to conserve water, they should make it a finacial benifit to do so.
Maybe we shouldn't be growing water intensive crops and livestock in areas like California or deserts in Arizona? What a crazy idea.
Allah bless sunny🌞
Do we really need all those almonds?
Beef is fine Almonds are not. never heard of livestock using alot of water. We just have too many people.
Try telling that to US farmers.
@@waseemyasin4475 thanks for the worthless comment.
Maybe it wasn’t a great idea to turn a desert into one of the states with one of the largest agriculture industries in the country
It wasn't a deserted 120yrs ago. Also maybe if the "bread basket of America" didn't poison their water supply they would still be an agriculture power house.
We knew it's Finally here
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The solution is simple salt water desalination plants just what gave Israel a water surplus.
Have they quit watering the golf courses yet?
Farming is being successfully performed in quiet buildings and warehouses… using much less water and no pesticides. Farms are wasteful and expensive. Fewer people would be a better solution… but whatever.
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@Cinthia Albeth It's not watching tutorials videos and wasting time on strategies. I was also ignorant doing so till I met Ms Miranda Chamberlainjnr sometime last year in New York at a startup funding event
All this does is restrict water on the poor. The rich can pay the fines to keep watering their million dollar mansions. “Always, the poor must suffer” -State of a California motto
That's capitalism
This is what happens when you put 40M ppl in a desert
Farmers - people in cities should do their part.
Also farmers - let's grow some of the most water intensive crops on the planet in the desert...
Its not their fault. All those vegans in cali need their almond milk and avocado toast
It's actually because of overpopulation
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Lol yeah humans could do without almonds, except in bakewell tarts. And 'bakewell tart jam'. Seriously though I wonder how much of that water they're putting on almond trees evaporates off the soil or drains down deep? There are agricultural methods that can conserve MUCH more water!
@@mikehawk2610 lol
When you move to a desert, try to make it not be a desert, only for it to come back and bite you on the rear because at the end of the day, you can’t make it rain when you need more water.
Israel is drier and hotter then the desert sw. They manage there water more efficiently and dont have any emergencies.
Doesn't agriculture consume more water than residential users? Maybe they should focus on less water intensive crops. Almonds take a considerable amount of water, as does dairy.
Yeah... just don’t give the cows water hey..?
@@Nothinglefttosay I think he means phase out dairy farming... not kill the cows via dehydration
Cows are mostly in other parts of California, there aren't many cattle in the central valley 250,000 checking online out of 5 million most are in the north and east where there is open range and different water sources.
@@drscopeify central valley, north and east are all in the same watershed aren't they? All on the Sacramento river watershed? So any water taken doesn't end up down stream. It also can't end up in nestle water bottles for next to nothing.
Every canal and water storage area needs to be covered with floating solar panels to preserve water from evaporation.
Every home and business should have a rain water collection and storage system. No more green lawns in the desert.
Use native drought plantings and stop watering lawns. Rain water collection systems should be standard on any new home or business building.
Great ideas, but opposing American corporations own the Government, so I’d imagine it’s impossible to get them through the senate. I also read that collecting water like you suggested is against the law. Can you believe that!
@@helenpauls1496 yes, collecting rain water is prohibited, even someone arrested because of that
@@Cleeon Crazy!! Everyone should do it. They can’t arrest you all. Honestly, the more I find out about America, the more I feel sorry for so many of you and do hope things can change for the better. Take care.
@@helenpauls1496 LA city and several others allow rooftop capture. They even give away free rain barrel if you attend a seminar. But there are not many barrels but many times more people signing up for it. You can buy your own at a store that sells it.
why solar panels, you can put those anywhere in the desert for a lot less complexity, idea is just as bad as solar roadways. A simple cover would do the job
The almond farms use an unreal amount of water. Maybe dont grow them in a desert
What? Don't you realize that almonds are an important, profitable, export, cash-crop commodity for the state?
Golf courses and lawns are crazy in a desert.
It's actually because of overpopulation
@@user-lvqk2wdp8sjn so is water
Maybe don't build cities like Las Vegas in the desert. How much water do you think the 675,000 people use in Vegas in a single day. How much water do you think all those hotels and casinos use in a single day also you moron.
My backyard is an agricultural region that supplies a high percentage of our food needs. We are also blessed with plenty of native black walnut and other trees that bear nuts. Rain is copious and wildlife is abundant. I don't think establishing an agricultural region in a desert classifies as a brilliant farming strategy. I think pepitas are superior to almonds, anyway.
A year round food supply demands it. Of course golf courses and lawns,..... dont eat grass.
You had me at bear nuts.
@@danielmorse6597 I weeded my garden today and had the weeds for lunch. My backyard is organic, thankfully.
California's central valley is literally one of the best places in the entire world for agriculture, you have no idea what you're talking about. It's only a problem now because of global warming. Obviously mass agriculture in a dessert is a bad idea, but it hasn't always been this way
@@masondicroce917 Well you have to do it sustainable.
Just tapping wells and rivers that fluctuate wont be a stable long term source. Specially when human consumption has grown to these levels.
Nuclear powered reverse osmosis could turn sea water into freshwater. Very sustainble. At a stable rate etc.
California is the worlds "5th largest" economy. Weird how they have not invested in the future, for such a "progressive" state. Legislation needs work in Cali. Just look at the mess they made out of highspeed rail.. They need some efficiency..
I live in irvine and literally they are building a water park! Instead of conserving it!
Eliminate all water use for golf courses.
Agreed
How about stop building cities out in the middle of nowhere. Tell that to the democrats that have been running California for decades.
Why... that would eliminate all fantasy tycoons and their oh so green electric golf carts.
Good luck with that one.
The hospitals will have to close the therapeutic swimming pools before they c lose a golf course.
your politicians will never do that, they gotta golf
Lawns, too.
The city of Phoenix, Az has reduced water usage by 30% even with an increase in population. Farming accounts for 60% of water consumption. Perhaps we should stop growing in the desert, or growing high water consumption crops like lettuce, avocados and almonds!
There are successful methods for growing food in areas that get very little rain or access to running water. We just don’t practice them. Yet.
All the technology you could imagine in Silicon Valley yet the government doesn't listen or apply options provided.
Knee jerk reactions won't produce change or stop the fires yet to come this season.
Beef industry uses the most water by far.
Don’t eat we want grow it. The farms were there first. Then all the people showed up ,then they get hungry. Where does it all stop?
@@johnhancock1739 how insightful.
The southwest coast, we’re drenched in rain here in the northwest
Everyone should live in a rural area for a while - it really does hammer in the importance of water conservation.
I love living in a rule area I used to live in the suburbs but I live in a rule area now and I’ve gotten so self-reliant that I’m even going to come up with a water system even though there’s not a water shortage in my area to where I can use my well water for drinking showering things like that but I’m going to collect rainwater for irrigating my garden and watering my plants so that way it splits the burden but yes living in a rule area does teach you conservation you learn to conserve your resources while living in the suburbs or living in towns there’s excess of everything if you have the money and people just go apeshit and conservation is not on their priority list because many people that live in the cities think that they’re better than people that live in rule areas and they they should have cream of the crop or first pick in everything including water. It’s eventually going to get to where they demand the other states pipe them water so they can maintain their extravagant lavish lifestyles. Without conservation
This catastrophic situation is given little to no coverage in the US. American media seems happy to keep our citizens ignorant on climate change & it’s devastating consequences.
Fossil fuel companies rule the world.
Don't spread fake news. We are aware... it's reported very regularly. Don't be CNN, bro.
media is fucked up anyways. They cover too much Ukraine and not the important stuff!
@MikeN Ike The climate HAS changed and this change has been made extreme and accelerated by man's activities such as pollution, heavy carbon14 and methane dumping by way of burning fossil fuels (oil, coal, natural gas, etc.) and raising a tremendous amount of livestock, and deforestation and habitat destruction. Combine it all and you have a recipe for disaster. If you cannot see that, crack a book for once in your life.
@MikeN Ike You have been working off some pretty damn poor info. The fossil fuel industry's efforts to confuse the issue seem to have worked on you.
I'm only in my early 20s and I am absolutely terrified for what the future holds.
why, 50% of CA water goes to the Ocean per the Demicatat policies over the last 20 year. Had this issue in the 80's and all got better.
Just learn from your elders’ mistakes, that’s it. And don’t be a moron and breed
California's drought is their own fault, do not let the media fearmonger you.
Yep we’re fucked.
Every problem has a solution. The news likes to present a scary one sided version of the truth. It's good for ratings.
Up here in NorCal we got an average rain year. The problem is much of it fell between October-December and we hardly got much beyond that. SoCal is hurting for sure, way worse than up north.
Yup we also have the Hetch hetchy reservoir. A man-made dammed valley fed by a river that 4 counties in the Bay Area draw water from.
California has suffered recurring serious droughts since at least the mid 1800s. Perhaps the issue now is the number of people living there?
The number of corporate agricultural crooks*
23years of Drought but still growing crops like water intensive Avocados , Almonds and one of the worst , Pistachios and no real investment in Solar powered desalination plants , desert air water catchment
It's actually because of overpopulation
Reactor Desalination is also an option.
Tell that to the stupid democrats that have been running the state for decades. They're more interested in handing out millions to all these illegals they let come in every day.
106 gallons of water goes into making just one ounce of beef. By comparison, just about 23 gallons are needed for an ounce of almonds. And most of the beef water consumption is in foodstock production. Why blame the almond?
At least desertification also affects the people who caused it
Yea but those who can afford it can move away
What?
Everybody who drives, flies and eats have contributed to this, not just those who chose to live in one particular place.
Unfortunately most of the people who devised ways of exploiting the limited water-resources (like Mullholland constructing aquaducts & dams, & others that engineered dams such as Hoover Dam), are long dead!
@@mk1st droughts have happened long before vehicles were invented. Shut up you old hippy.
There are thousands of leaking sinks in Calif… perhaps a program to fix those would save some water.
I live in San Diego county (1.5M people) and no one is talking about conserving water at home here. We have known for years conservancy was absolutely necessary and people here are still irrigating grass lawns and filling swimming pools. They are still developing and expanding with no regard for available resources.
Then it's not a huge problem. If it were then the govt would ban pools and make people have more native lawns.
Why not remove the lawns. I did.
I'm glad that I did, because now, I enjoy my back yard much more.
I put in a courtyard. Cactus plants,
outdoors woodshop, Plus exercise
trails. Win - win !!!
Front yard. :: cactus plants, plus lots of Arizona rocks.
I even get good comments!
Lots of cactus flowers attracts
people who take photos.
Win. ! Win. !!!
TRY IT!!!!
Try it. !
After 35 years of cutting.grass, just to throw the grass away, I realized, that a Arizona yard in So.Ca. would
be better! Yea!!!! Try it!!!!!
We in Somalia have been struggling with this disaster of drought...
I know this isn’t much, but I wish you and your people the best of luck.
there's internet in somalia? who would've thought
@@imranhq13 Are you joking?
@@dominospizza4386 when i think of africa i can only imagine people are living in jungle
I'd say you have it much worse than California, they should take notes from your country. Maybe Californians can actually learn how to actually LIVE in a desert
California needs to step up their desalination capacity. These droughts are only going to get worse and I don't see the lush suburban lawns and golf courses going away anytime soon.
Desalination is incredibly inefficient and expensive.
@@timjones2329 it's better than not having water
@@timjones2329 also if people in California are willing to pay so much for their house than they probably can afford expensive water to water their lush lawns and golf courses.
then they need to make the desalination more efficient for both energy and it's byproducts... on the energy side it could be mitigated by plugging it on renewable energy but the brine byproduct would be trickier as pumping it back to the sea would just cause another issue as it makes the surrounding waters more salty + chemicals used on the desalination process
It's a battle, should a state with iffy water security be using desalination to water green lawns? Should water be used in Agriculture to be sent and exported to other states in the east or overseas at the expense of residents of California who are having high water rates and having to conserve. Who should benefit and lose?
" Since it was Filled " LOL.
There should be more water conversion plants along the coast. But the last one built in Carlsbad, CA took 24 yrs to get a permit. The plant previously in San Diego was dismantled & sent to Cuba years ago!! They now have a large commerical project there!!
This should have happened like at least 8 years ago
More like 30.
@@dan_hitchman007 More like 100 before they even established the State’s borders.
Here's a solution for you. Its called desalination plants
V energy and money intensive
No. It's called using less water.
Or build a couple new Aqueducts across states lines from the Pacific Northwest into Northern California replenishing the Old reservoirs. Digging a ditch ain’t hard nor so expensive. We already have the biggest fresh water lake in the world, not including the three😅Replanting trees causes some cooling effect like it does for Phoenix so that’s another option. My State AZ has been I a drought for 30+ years or even longer but we always understood we live in a desert, so lastly stop taking thirty minute showers and I don’t know, use a system that puts a timer of water usage for showers instead of letting people use the water then later get a bill for it because that is not working. Also desalination can work too like it does for my other family in Isreal and yeah it’s a bit expensive but hey, it work just fine. We are already have inflation up the ass today sooooo, gotta start some where.
Okay. Can we come dump all that excess salt in your yard? Drain your bank account to pay for it? The solution is an attitude adjustment. So we can live responsibly and as softly as possible on the delicate surface of this earth.
Applying more more organic decomposing materials on the ground such as wood chips, mulch, straw, etc. helps retain moisture in the ground thus help keeping the plants and trees going without as much or any irrigation at all or over time.
You sound like you just read abook of bill mollison haha you think polititians don't know it? If so you are naive. What you say about trees and mulch works for a farm of Humans not a city of pigs!
@@Cuisinenomade1 Nope but, I sure know of him and yes, I'm sure a few do know, certainly not all of them, that is evident and to assume so that they all do is also naive and thus sounds like some dickwuad conspiracy theory bull shit. Relentless Education and Practice is Key. Do you still live in California? What are you doing about it yourself if so? What are you contributing to society? For the sake of stupid argument - Isn't the city more like a farm of humans at that POV? What part of the state do you live in?
@@drurandolph4786 The way YOU percieve my message tells a lot of your heart. Conspiracy and ahressive language? That's what I am writting. The "pigs" that feed you, house you, give you work and laws, those are the ones you should be asking questions, not me. And thats not a conspiracy becaise they do it openly for all to see, if they can see. Go sit among your plants so you calm down a little.
@@Cuisinenomade1To bad we can't have this convo face to face to better understand each other.
@@drurandolph4786 on that I absolutely agree! Yet even then if there is no "word" difficult to communicate differently, and thus mass shootings and a decadent culture. No body listents to each other nor do they want to. The just want "hear" offense and contradiction. But how could anyone be at peace in a country where there is so much anger and "selfishness"?
The opening shot of the desert with a lush green landscaping in the middle really shows the problem
yup & then in the comments are people saying "we need desalination, cause those lawns aren't going anywhere" that's really pathetic imo!
It's gonna be a shit show in the coming decades...
In the coming months*
And to add insult to injury, its thundering where i live
Here too.
Those reservoirs are fed primarily by the Colorado River which in turn is dependent on rainfall (obviously) but also on meltwater from snowpack and glaciers in the Rocky Mountains. Given the limited/decreasing replenishment capacity of those sources, it only takes a little thought to work out the ultimate fate of those reservoirs.
And the ultimate fate of those living downstream...
The maddest thing is the water pressure in California and Nevada compared to the uk. You'd have thought it would be less to conserve water, but its about x2/x3 as strong! Fastest bath I ever ran.
The drought will get worse. And it is important to know that 70 percent of water usage in California is used for animal agriculture (that includes growing the crops for the animals). Time to evolve and eat plant-based.
Very true ,the huge beef consumption in the USA is a big problem , go vegan or as close as you can is the best way
Nope, love my tbone steaks and bacon
@@PD-yd3fr Yeah the LOrd said all meats are clean. We can eat pigs!
After 20yrs ist no longer a drought it's the new climate.
The problem with California , the EPA won't let anyone build reservoirs for the last 50 years . Every year the state lets 7.4 million acre feet of water back into
the ocean because of high spring runoff . I'm all for the environment but reservoirs are not a bad thing . Yes there is a co2 increase to build them
but they are talking about piping water from the Mississippi to Lake Mead . TALK ABOUT A CO2 INCREASE
Good thing California has the worlds biggest water bottle companies.
Well, those living in the suburbs should have to make do with artificial grass lawns. The technology is now so good that you can hardly tell the difference. Would save an enormous amount of water, power and labor.
Microplastics. I just don't understand having the desire to have a lawn in a place lawns don't grow. Delusional
Why do they need a lawn at all. Plant stuff that actually survives in a place like this naturally....
Why? Agriculture is 98% of the water use.
@@MrGhosthacked - why? Because every little bit helps.
@@chickennugget6233 - A lot of truth in that. If you go to the southern Mediterranean (eg Southern Spain, Portugal and Greece) or North African countries (eg Morocco, Libya, Tunisia) they do not tend to have lawns, but instead have large potted plants. California has a similar climate. Time to make changes.
Guys look up 'water cup india" on youtube america is just ignoring solutions as always
Showing a lake in Nevada while explaining conditions for California
What's crazy is Sacramento calls for limited water usage while they turn around and say we have too much water and sell it off for millions...
As a lay Californian, when we get tons of rain, or snow melts from the Sierras, California doesn’t have enough reservoirs and water just heads out to the ocean. They mentioned wild fires, but I hear very little about Forrest management. California has $100 billion surplus but infrastructure is crumbling (roads, dam maintenance, forest management, additional reservoirs.) with that much surplus, California gov keeps raising taxes. Spending on frivolous programs, needle exchange programs. Early release of convicted felons, illegal immigration...I digress..
Yeah california should stop spending $100 billion on needle exchanges.
Erasing those programs ain't gonna fix the water issue. They def have money to start working on better water programs now, but they choose not to b/c it doesn't affect them. When the water really runs out, the rich can leave.
"Agency unanimously rejects California desalination project
The California Coastal Commission has rejected a long-standing proposal to build a $1.4 billion seawater desalination plant to turn ocean water into drinking water"
#repost & #repeat
Why they complain about the problem but also complain about the solution.
Maybe someone should ask the Governor and the Speaker of the House to close down their wineries? Maybe that would help.
STOP SELLING TO NESTLE
Whether it’s guns or water, the average American talks about rights but rarely about their obligations to their fellow man or the environment.
How many thousands of buffalo were slaughtered when the founding fathers Landed?
Meanwhile the indigenous people only took what they needed. It’s all about greed.
It’s the American way
Congratulations on an epic history fail comment!
You are so right. Pass-the-buck-ism is too prevalent. Change has to occur on the individual level. I’m not talking about throwing things in the recycling bin. I’m talking about using every single scrap in every single use before it’s disposed of. I’m talking about living on the level of need, not greed. I’m talking about educating oneself and others. I’m talking about using every tool at your disposal. Boycott the industrial farmers. Boycott Nestle and tell them it’s because they are sucking drought prone areas dry for the profit on bottled water. I’m talking about improving the soil your residence sits on to the point where it is healthy enough to hold what little water falls from the sky. I’m talking about becoming a functioning component in this ecosystem until it is a successful ecosystem rather than a taxed ecosystem. I’m talking about standing up to every single troll until trolls are an endangered species. Jimbo, are you listening? Your comment may have been snide, in which case I applaud you. It may not have been snide, rather, entitled. If that is the case, shame on you.
The sun never sets on the British Empire.... no greed there🤣
This is something California has had to do in all of my 7 decades. Putting bricks in our commode tanks, timing our showers, limits on watering our yards, yet the paved paradise grows.
Over 2000 townhomes were recently built near Disneyland.
Concrete and asphalt reflect heat and interrupt the water cycle.
As an Aussie, where we have had legislation banning those toilets being installed since the 1980's, it really blows my mind that you still don't have anything like that 40 years later! Aussie toilets use 4.5 litres on full flush & 3 litres on half flush, without any bricks needing to be added. Since the 80's it was simply a case of all new toilets were replaced with the efficient ones until no old ones were left
@@nba1942 Spammer! Google close this account!!!
Asphalt is black it absorbs heat, idiot it doesn't reflect heat.
Gail i am sorry, that is a assumption. Please read Climate Change wikipedia or watch "Before the flood". Co2 emissions are the driver of holding in heat on earth. Humans are 100% responsible for Climate Change that is quickly putting Earth on a path to Extinction.
@@LK-pc4sq and yet the denier is probably doing more to fix the problem than you are. Doesn't really matter if people believe it's manmade or changing or not does it. What matters is what people are willing to do to fix the problem. What are you willing to do to fix it?
Yes I have cut back on water use but residential use is a SMALL percentage of overall consumption, approx 10%
Imagine drinking water from a glass ....
...but then being shocked that there is less water in it.
It's way past time that the people in the cities started conserving water. They should have been conserving from the get-go. This is our karma.
People in the cities could cut back on their water usage by 20% and it still wouldn't solve the problem. After all, the average residents aren't the ones growing enormous quantities of almonds and avocados in the desert or dumping millions of gallons into fracking.
I live in the west and just last week I removed a large part of my front yard grass.
A neighbor whom is in her late 50’s asked me why I did it. I told her we’re running out of water and grass is a super resource hog. She responded. “The weather always changes but just wait good times are ahead of us, you should’ve kept the grass.”
I used to believe we could change and fixed climate change. Now I have little to no hope.
One key issue I noticed no one mentions is the mandated water release of huge amounts of water to reestablish the Colorado River Delta, I can't help to think it might not have been a good idea during this drought.
San Diego, in California has no drought :). So weird.
in Monterey they only get water from 4am to 10am....
Who knew that moving into a desert, then allowing commercial farms to take all the water to grow crops that could not live there otherwise might be a bad idea. Why should the people ration when businesses get to steal their shared supply?
What do you eat?
@@stevenseagull1938 I know you're trying to be a smartass, but nothing I eat requires taking water or essential resources from the area in which I live. If other areas are dumb enough to put MY food ahead of the wellbeing of its own citizens, that's on them. But for the record, I don't eat almonds or anything else grown in California.
@@stevenseagull1938 Why does that matter? We can switch diets and source of food saying we have to keep justifying bad farming practices because we eat a salad
@@stevenseagull1938 don’t eat meat and millions of acres of prime land open up for cultivation.
@@haught7576 Not in california though. I don't think dairy is a big deal there.
I feel for those in California and in other south-western US states. As a Canadian, I also fear what might happen when (not if, sadly) those states become so desperate for water, they start looking north for supply.
Be proactive but charge so much they can’t afford it. If they complain blame it on the free market.
That might just put them off and make them find a different solution without invading…
I don't. They brought it upon themselves.
CA refuses to add more desalination plants.
The rich and well to do have to water their precious landscapes.
They let in up to 10 million illegal immigrants. They need water also.
Don't feel sorry for them. They brought it on themselves
There's a comic series about that exact scenario. It's called, "We Stand on Guard". PEI is turned into a prison colony
We have the Great Lakes Compact between the eight Great Lakes states and Ontario and Quebec.
Warmer temperature less precipitation? That doesn’t make sense- warmer temps, more moisture in the air -more rain
we had water restrictions and we foolishly relaxed them when water levels rose.
Agriculture, with their meter-wide irrigation pipelines and 5,000hp pumps, tells citizens, with their 19mm connection to the water system, "Hey, you people need to conserve water."
By the way, the agriculture lobbyists are behind the distraction of the Bottled Water plants. Water bottling plants, using trucks to ship out their product, simply cannot match the water consumption of industrial agriculture with their MASSIVE pipelines. My garden hose can literally fill two trucks per day.
Who is using the water ? = industrial scale agriculture.
J h I can tell you re one of those peoe who hates plenty of relatively cheap and diverse food.
Yeah. Go ahead. Cut back ag water to the San zjaowuin Valley and the Imperial Vslley.
See what happens then to your food choices and budget.
Learn to Redrink your urine or Repent of your sinful ways.
The issue that I raised here is the dishonest and deceptive lobbying.
I'm not anti-food. I'm anti-liars.
A local industry pulled a similar BS lobbying trick, slyly mixing up liters of water and cubic meters of water.
do you feed on grass and leafs
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Holy shit.
I think this is a good opportunity for hydroponics. It uses 85% less water because it's constantly recycled.
Also desalination plants will have to pick up the slack for fresh water reservoirs and water tables
Trevor, I study Anthropgenic Climate change you nailed two answers right off the bad. United States goverment is just a ignorant country and greedy as hell to now warn society on WHAT IS CAUSING climate change and to LIMIT co2 levels from holding in earth heat to cook the planet.
Imagine being the entrepreneur in the 1920s-30s that sold all of the sod and grass to people who essentially live in a desert.
The person was a genius opportunist.
The 100 year long ponzi scheme of the american south west
Yeah, but that desert was supplied with enough water from big and consistent winter snow packs. There would be enough water if the snowfall amounts had kept up, although, ironically it's the number of people living modern lives who have affected the climate to the point it now doesn't supply the snow. Kinda a roundabout logic but it's not being in a desert that was the poor choice when a good method of moving water was developed.
@@mk1st it's not the reason why, but its certainly not helping
Plantings trees is the other ways to regain water up because trees brings rains.
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good idea on the long run, do you know how much trees drink water per day....it is a lot you know , well you know now, anyway thanks.
@@adrianpeters2413 Prioritize the water to the trees and crops, make the cities build desalinization plants for their use
@@PD-yd3fr yes totally agree , they are rich enough to do that , look at the house prices there now ..used to live on potrero hill , totally great idea ..
Can't do that when you have 5 inches of rain a year and all of it falls in the winter months. Idiot
_Harsh_ fines for anyone caught watering during the day when water evaporates in the heat, and for wasteful or ineffective watering like puddles, soggy yard, sprinkler left watering the side of the house or the driveway. Some people are clueless and uniformed or just don't care.
Why do you love government overreach “harsh fines” Why can’t the California government use ocean water once the salt is taken out? There is enough water for every one
@@mohamedsaid9416 Its expensive and government overreach isn't telling you to turn off the water sprinklers
I never understood the people that thought there wouldn't be issues with building farms and golf-courses in flat-out desert regions.
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Drought or over populated.
California is meant to be a desert, so drought
Overpopulation is an elitist myth.
BOTH!!!! 😒
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It's like that Robert Cray song, "The Forecast Calls For Pain."
To be fair every lawn sprinkler system I've walked past in my area has had a sign saying recycled water in use
As much as I love them, I think that we could do without almonds.
And less beef
Tell that to all the liberal vegans that live in California they can't have their almond milk.
While reducing residential use can be impactful agriculture tends to use far more water. If you want to improve water usage perhaps quit farming and building where there's no water.
Most of the produce in the US grows in California. Shut that down, during the time when all other countries are starting to stop their export of food, and let the American people starve during the time of inflation. There are more nuanced solutions available than just - keep it goin or shut it down. That’s what SOUND policy should be about.
@@gfd5606 except we've known about these issues for decades and should have had plenty of time to adapt before it became a problem and didn't. And yes clearly I'm saying we should stop farming this instant and let people starve...
In Houston Tx we water the concrete. Busted water lines all over the city.
Sad
All these years, then realization? Desalination facilities? Or just too little, too late!
California needs to plant more trees to encourage more water retention in the ground and change their mentality on the importance of watering pretty grass
remember the day they said we may run out of oil... but the water was never ever in our lexicon.
They can have some of ours UK Kent, it never bloody stops.
Poor governance in the state of California is largely responsible for the water shortage and fires. The state refuses to build new reservoirs and desalination plants, and forests are not sufficiently cleared of dead trees and brush, nor are there a sufficient number of controlled burns.
Believe it or not, wildfires in California have become world news these days. Building desalination plants sounds reasonable and feasible. Any reasons why you can’t build them? It might be profitable if extra desalinated water can be sold to Nevada or elsewhere.
I’m so glad I live horizontally almost the furthest I could from CA. I lived there for nine months in ‘00 and that was plenty for me, I’ll take the smoky mountains all the way.
well it cant be to bad, they still allow boating on it, which we know that boat motors distribute some water into the air which helps to evaporate the water quicker. they keep building subdivisions and golf course after golf course, seems like no one is taking it to serious.
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They should start researching in saltwater to drinking water, from the ocean
They did. It's expensive and creates more pollution
Yes I know, BUT the ways there have been tried is NOT the only ways! They could potentientally try to make a "Reverse osmosis". So the saltwater to clean water is not at a lost cost!💧🧂=💧
I WANT TO scream at people who keep on denying climate change.
its already too late, the damage is done. Saying "I told you so" doesn't help the situation either.
Believe me unfortunately they just won’t get it… And yes it is beyond madness.
this is why we needed competent leadership when it counts. We need people to make these decisions who are educated and rational thinkers, and not listen to the noisy few who aren't.
@@Robrulz666icloud I can't imagine what the world will look like 10 years from now.
It's actually because of overpopulation
And yet the developers keep building houses at a furious pace.. 🤦🤷
They should interview the people with the lawn sprinklers on and the swimming pools getting filled.
Who would have thought so many millions of people in the same area would use so much water?? The Romans even knew this. But lets just blame it on the climate... change...
Both things can be true.
farmers should do their part too.
There are permaculture techniques, tree plantings, no till, which preserve water and keep the soil in good condition (carbon and bacterial life, )
Absolutely. Thank you. Monoculture farming has destroyed the earth. Agriculture has ruined every single area it has been practiced in, more than any other human activity, in the entire history of the human race. These industrial farmers have no right to complain. None whatsoever.
Can someone let the aliens know that we need fresh water too
im so happy i moved out of cali.