How California's Droughts Lead to Other Disasters
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- Each year, California and the Southwest break new records for droughts and high temperatures, leading to heat waves, wildfires, and even flooding. Learn how these catastrophes operate together-and how engineers are working on new technologies to help us survive.
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California has 4 seasons a year. They are: Drought, Fire, Flood, and Earthquake.
you forgot springbreak
You forgot santa Ana's
Earthquake isn't a season, but otherwise you're pretty close. Starting with winter and ending with fall, I'd say it's Flood, Allergy, Drought, and Fire.
Florida seasons: Rainy, Sinkholes, Hurricanes, crackheads.
Earthquake coming up next!
Some people think you should not use pure water for toilets use... From France.
And to water your lawn.
How do you separate drinking water and potable water in houses?
And then you have the geniuses that want a lush green lawn in the middle of the desert 🤷 maybe plant some natives that can handle the local conditions instead of dumping water into an antiquated status symbol
I think they also sold the water off to bottling and cattle businesses.
@@OmeedNOuhadi The Governor dumped 5 years of water reserves so now they state has a water shortage.
@@FLDrummer01 Nope again. Not true.
@@eh3477 it’s true. Search it.
@@eh3477 Shocking new reports indicate that over the past several weeks, the California State Water Board has routed at least 90 percent of Delta inflow right into the sea, leaving farmers with no water to grow their crops.
“It’s equal to a year’s supply of water for 1 million people,” tweeted Central Valley farmer Kristi Diener, along with the hashtag “#ManMadeDrought.”
While California’s reservoirs are designed to hold up to five years’ worth of fresh water for the state’s water needs - and had been filled to capacity back in June 2019 - the state’s water overseers are now flushing all that water down the toilet, essentially.
Californi is one of the most blessed states in the whole world ! We produce 98 percent of kiwis, 88 percent of fruits, 90 percent of nuts, man we need California to have the whole country strive.
All we need to do is kick out all liberal politicians and homeless, lower taxes then Commie-fornia will return to its glory.
@@henryjohnson-ville3834 what a horrid statement
Henry Johnson-Ville don’t eat any of California’s produce just eat pure crap then.
@@henryjohnson-ville3834 How is lowering taxes going to help solve the water shortage?
@@rdean150 Stop sending it to L.A.! Someone is paying and someone is profiting. Develop some de-salting plants in L.A. to clean ocean water instead of buying water from other counties.
"HOW CALIFORNIA'S CHRONIC WATER MISMANAGEMENT HAS CAUSED A MAN-MADE DISASTER."
Title correct for accuracy.
facts
Couldn’t agree more. Water management dept?That has to be someones title up in that shiny building with green grass.
absolutely
@JitzyJT From San Francisco south I agree. The northern part of the state is completely different.
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And stop it with the elitist golf courses. What a total effing waste of everything.
Steve Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury in the Trump Administration received a 7-figure PPP loan last year to fund his elite Golf club in Brentwood, CA. There's not only a complete waste, but a corrupt one at that; Mnuchin is reportedly worth over 300 million. And yet he received 7-figure PPP "loans" for his elite Golf club in the LA area. Fraudulent in my mind and should be investigated.
Uh…but trump…….
Why can't golf courses be made out of turf? Crazy thought I know
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I lived in Southern California for 10 years and then Northern California for 10 years. What I came to discover is that California is basically mostly desert and occasional Mountain areas. The fact that so much of the middle of California is productive Farmland is only because of the water that is taken from various sources to make it able to grow crops. When you take all of that water to produce all of that food you're taking the Water Supplies away from the millions of people that live in California. As far as the fires are concerned other than arson a lot of those fires are natural and happen every single year. I really think the biggest problem that you have in California and you have too many people living in a state that is not supposed to support that large of a population.
Exactly, geographically it really reminds me of Pakistan. Which is having the exact same problems.
Overusing water resources in a desert is never a good idea. People should learn to reuse the water that way they can have an unlimited amount of water.
Was it too contentious to mention most of California’s fresh water goes to crop irrigation, and that the price for that water is kept cheap by the state? That doesn’t treat this as everyone’s problem to bear and solve.
Reagan made California the number 1 Dairy State in the US (over Wisconsin). oops.
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@@sanbruno3606 Let's see it, then we'll talk.
You could also bottle it up, reverse osmosis it, and sell it as exotic, fresh, bottled water. The best deals are national parks that sell to companies like Nestle.
It goes to both crop irrigation and large cities in southern California.
You got to clear out the dry underbrush. Roaming herd animals are good for that and turn fire hazards into food. They also help the soil in the process.
since the extinction of the megafauna after the ice, there is a huge imbalance in the ecosystems in north america.
Ah yes, Trump's "rake the forest" argument.
LOL
@@paulmccarter908 you need to look at studies at the University of Colorado performed. About wildfires and grazing.
But a lot of the land is actually federal land...
Arizona has a hard time preserving water
Well who would move to a desert I'm not getting that barely any water to begin with
They invested in underground reservoirs unlike California and well all the deserts in the US.
Soo vages uses 4 to maximum of 6% of mead water Arizona 20 to 25%.
Last year they said there trying to reduce water dependence on lake mead so they invested in underground water stuff.
Ok yes all have water wells but very few invested in renewing they underground water in wet years for some reason 🤔
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Lawns are not needed and a waste. That simple.
There is a new desalination technology called solar dome
it's very promising and it's under construction in Saudi Arabia smart city neom I think this can be a relatively fast solution to solve even tiny part of the problem along with water treatment and conservation..
They also use fossil fuel to generate electricity for desalination AND they dump the brine right back into the ocean - not very healthy for aquatic life!
It's hot but inside my home is cool I don't have to put on the air conditioning yet. Since I turned it off last night. The vegetation is full grown so the cooling effect is on point. It's keeping down our energy bills too.
Yes, my lawn and my trees around the house are reducing my need to use electricity. Lessening the strain on the power grid. My lawn and trees are improving the air quality. My neighbors rockscape is raising the local temp. Requiring him to use more electricity - straining the power grid. And his rocks are not helping the air quality.
@@cavemancaveman9746 I don't think grass helps much with these things, but I can definitely believe that trees and bushes do. But unfortunately with a water shortage, those will just turn into kindling.
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People moved to and grow crops in the part of the country where it barely ever rains. Smart
Ah well, as the saying goes we reap what we sew and we're in for a bumper reward.
@Don Kanis Yea and I wish I was.
The earth is over 2/3 water, desalination of ocean water gives us a huge supply of fresh water.
Is not that simple and is also very expensive. I'm annoyed by these same answers all the time.
@@ramixpAPEX 21st century, we now do complicated stuff. What's not expensive? I'm annoyed with people responding to desalination with this same response. I'm also tired of SoCal developing as if they are entitled to all of the water in the West. Stop building already. You have no water of your own. Stop being selfish, greedy, and irresponsible. SoCal is a huge burden to so many watersheds / ecosystems.
Human made disasters
Who's job was it to rake the forest floor? I thought that was worked out.
You'll have years and years to do so and cost astronomical amount of cash to do so.
This is the best one I’ve seen yet!!😳🤫😂🤣
But a lot of the land is actually federal land...
The problem with desalination is brine.
lived in San Diego for about six months in the sixties ; didn't rain once . lived in Northern California for about four months in the seventies ; didn't rain once . California is a desert .
I lived in Redding for 8-months once. It rained 50-inches in that time.
I lived in Sacramento a couple years ago. It rained over 30 inches in one year. SoCal is a desert.
May 2021 Floods
July 2021 Droughts
@E. Cantu 100% correct
Nobody has the courage to bring up the population problem. Every single ecosystem has a caring capacity. Let's cut through the BS.
100% right. Every ecosystem has a carrying capacity. Nobody wants to admit that humans are above that threshold but its the truth
If its not a earth quake, its a drought which leads to wild fires and when it rains then land slides and flooding. California is a diverse and beautiful state loaded with catastrophes
WHAT IS THE POSSIBILITY OF USING THE OCEAN WATER TO CREATE AN IRRIGATION SYSTEM THAT RUNS THROUGH THE HIGH RISK FIRE MOUNTAIN AREAS. TAXPAYERS WOULD BE WILLING TO PAY FOR THE EXTRA SECURITY. THIS WOULD HELP SOLVE THE DROUGHT PROBLEM AND THE PROBLEM OF OCEAN EROSIONS. MAYBE THAT IS WHY THE CREATOR MADE THE EARTH 75 PER CENT WATER.
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Interesting enough after this drought is over, or at least after a decent rainy season, there will be flash floods, land slides, etc. and people will complain about too much rain.
THEY SHOULD DEVISE A WAY TO PUMP EXCESS WATER BACK INTO aquifers , the piping is already there, maybe some ANTiFA graduates could be recruited for tech info
If people were smart and opened their eyes they would admit we saw this coming!!! Stop swimming pools green lawns etc
I think the main focus should be on fake clouds. I'm not talking clean alternative energy sources I'm talking about quick bandaids until we figure clean energy out. Correct me if I'm wrong.
It especially leads to catastrophic land mismanagement such as not allowing grazing on public lands and using controlled burns to control the undergrowth. It also leads to water resources being mismanaged where too much water is flushed into the SF Bay from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. 🤨
Project Pacifica, more distillation units along the coast, and improving the electric grid along with more generating capacity to operate these activities. Refill the reservoirs and ground water
Didn’t California sell it’s water to bottling companies that do soda & water and to the cattle industry? I believe in Arizona you can tap into the collective underground water to use all for yourself even if it’s from surrounding properties.
Nah…we just let it drain down to the ocean every year. I keep saying we need more storage for drinking only. No boats or people allowed to fish or camp.
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One of the biggest disasters was the State and Fed government doing nothing to prepare for large amounts of water that now are in the ocean….water management sat on their tails for 10 years getting paid to do nothing! We’re do we sign up?
The beginning of sorrows 😔
We need plant trees to help water stay on the ground
that is correct, it starts in the mountain areas with deep rooted species and then work down slope, eventually you will have springs and bodies of water pop up, plenty of examples in third word countries so california would be a good candidate
Isn't it true though that 80% of our water goes to agriculture? We're growing high-water-use crops like cotton and almonds in semi-arid areas just because we thought we could get an endless supply of water from the Sierra. I'm not against farmers but we need to grow a lot more olives and fewer almonds.
Regardless of what crops should or shouldn’t be grown in California, the Governor dumped the states 5 years of water reserves. This crisis is created.
@@FLDrummer01 Not true. Historic minimums of rain and snow fell this year. The governor doesn't control reservoir operations. The ground is so dry that snowmelt runoff is not even making it to reservoirs as it normally does- it's just being soaked up by the parched earth. There has been barely any rain or snow to fill any reservoirs this year.
@@eh3477 it’s true. They are dumping water reserves. I’ll post a link but TH-cam will most likely block it so use duck duck go (google squashes search results) and search “Governor of California dumps water reserves”
@@eh3477 Shocking new reports indicate that over the past several weeks, the California State Water Board has routed at least 90 percent of Delta inflow right into the sea, leaving farmers with no water to grow their crops.
“It’s equal to a year’s supply of water for 1 million people,” tweeted Central Valley farmer Kristi Diener, along with the hashtag “#ManMadeDrought.”
While California’s reservoirs are designed to hold up to five years’ worth of fresh water for the state’s water needs - and had been filled to capacity back in June 2019 - the state’s water overseers are now flushing all that water down the toilet, essentially.
@@eh3477 from the California department of water resources: California is no stranger to drought; it is a recurring feature of our climate. We recently experienced the 5-year event of 2012-2016, and other notable historical droughts included 2007-09, 1987-92, 1976-77, and off-and-on dry conditions spanning more than a decade in the 1920s and 1930s.
Paleoclimate records going back more than 1,000 years show many more significant dry periods. The dry conditions of the 1920s-30s, however, were on a par with the largest 10-year droughts in the much longer paleoclimate record.
$2 Trillion for war - but we just can't afford to build desalinization plants and fresh potable water distribution systems. Think about that for a minute.
Don't forget the missing trillions unaccounted for, either.
California has at least one desalinization plant, in San Diego I think. And it provides a lot of water to the community. But it is a very expensive process that requires a LOT of energy. So it's not a cure-all solution and it can create other environmental problems.
CERN physicists have been quoted as saying: "If I want to be God nobody will tell me otherwise"
Too bad about the unintended consequences following that kind of thought process, eh? smh
How about sending a task force to Israel to see how they manage drought!
They destroy palestinians wells so They can have more water for them selfs...
For a supposedly eco-friendly state, you'd think CA would have used more goats against the dried plants that lead to the fires!
I left the Ventura/Santa Barbara area right after surviving the Thomas Fire; I am lucky to be alive after that event. Leaving was the best thing I have done in many years.
@Matt F - I can't understand why most people don't see what you did. The place is uninhabitable at this point. Best wishes!
I think earth is just over reacting to a sudden baby boom of human primates.
Droughts come and go. The problem is there are a lot more people living in our forests and wildlands that might not be as careful as they could be. Wild fires take place everywhere at one time or another, They clear out the underbrush that stops other plants from getting light. This is natures way of cleaning house. The question is do humans encourage this to happen more often? Are 8 billion people on this planet affectioning the worlds weather patterns? A few million cars. Really the Earth is very tolerant considering what we are doing to it.
All the drugs in the water test positive 🙄
I'll say it like this to keep it moving on. I grew up in the great Pacific Northwest ( washington State ) what ever is going on. Echo systems are going to go extinct. New echo systems are going to emerge. Animals that survive by changing to there internment will endure. Humans don't like change on a fast grand scale. We have to adapt or we will lose, and that has all ready started on a ( BIG GRAND SCALE ). Good luck out there
Isn't the vast majority of our society's water usage done by the agricultural sector? Cities are already quite efficient at reusing water in closed-loop systems. But the farming and ranching industries consume many many times more water, and they do so in inefficient ways like flood irrigation, and on inefficient, non-native, thirsty crops like almonds and pistachios.
Desalinate to irritate. No brainer. You have the whole specific.
Understanding the problem so we can understand the solution. Regional mega drought in the southwest, caused by a lot of things but essentially more water is being used and is in one way or another moved out of the region then the amount of water that is re-entered into the region. Conservation has its place but it is not a solution to this problem. The demands on water will not abate without causing complete collapse so the only alternative is to introduce a new source of water. Drawing water from other regional rivers like the Columbia or the Mississippi or Missouri would only move the problem around, draining other regions. The only essentially inexhaustible source of water is the ocean.
One thing we need to do is move water from the ocean back inland to places we need it and if we can do that while generating clean energy we have a chance to mitigate climate change and still have a prosperous future. It is really, really hard but it is not impossible.
If I could explain my idea in an equation it would go something like. (seawater from the west coast moved inland + converted by combination geothermal/desalination projects = clean water and clean energy.) The biggest idea I am trying to express is tunneling aqueducts from the coast, in this case the west coast of the USA inland to feed combination geothermal power and sea water desalination plants. The idea seems to be so big that no one has considered it possible but I believe it is not only possible but it is necessary. For over a century the fossil water contained in aquifers has been pumped out to feed agriculture, industry and municipal water needs. The natural water cycle cant refill fossil water deposits that were filled 10,000 years ago when the glaciers melted after the last ice age. Without refilling these aquifers there is not much of a future for the region of the United states. As a result ground levels in some areas of the San Joaquin Valley have subsided by more than 30 feet. Similar fossil water depletion is happening in other regions all around the world. TBM and tunneling technology has matured and further developments in the industry are poised to speed up the tunneling process and it's these tunnels that are the only way to move large volumes of water from the ocean inland. The water is moved inland to areas where it can be desalinated in geothermal plants producing clean water and power. In many cases the water will recharge surface reservoirs where it will be used first to make more hydro power before being released into rivers and canal systems. It's very important however to not stop tunneling at these first stops but to continue several legs until the water has traveled from the ocean under mountain ranges to interior states. Along the way water will flow down grade through tunnels and rise in geothermal loops to fill mountain top pumped hydro batteries several times before eventually recharging several major aquifers. What I am proposing is essentially reversing the flow of the Colorado River Compact. Bringing water from the coast of California first to mountaintop reservoirs then to the deserts of Nevada and Arizona and on to Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming. This big idea looks past any individual city or states problems and looks at the whole and by using first principles identifies the actual problem and only solution. Thank you for your time, I would like the opportunity to explain in further detail and answer any questions.
They gonna have to stretch big ass pipeline from Appalachian to southern states to fetch water before it gets really worse in southern states. Cant have this drought year after year.
Guess what - their water is polluted to he'll from coal mining. Drink up!
Waterless commodes? Turns waste into disease free compost or powder, this eliminating the need for the toilet as the middle "man" for H20! No waste pipes, leaks,or stinky sewage plants. Plumbers could have additional training for waterless commodes repairs.
Well once water is gone that's it ! Game is over .
Geoengineering
Chemtrails produce the opposite results
While chemtrails do create clouds, it would be high altitude clouds, with a recognizable specific unnatural repeated pattern. Chemtrails have eliminated low altitude rain clouds (which is a requirement of cloud seeding), warm the atmosphere and the ground. The trails can be seen because they absorb surrounding water, this reduce the chance of rain, which create drought conditions. Not only that, the next rain will pour down heavier, because of the colection of all the failed rain, create intense and long rain, creating flood after long period of drought
Then you could calculate the cost to them caused by a warming climate by adding up desalination and pumping that water to the top of the Sierra Nevadas.
You think its hot now wait till we reach a point of no return. To many ppl in a country causes it to heat up. Fact!
California should
learn from India ancient methods to hold storm water
and we can see that India is doing well ? #sarcasm ? Old stuff is not good stuff. This is why it is "old"...
Better forest management would help significantly in preventing wildfires
No
@@e2220 LOL alright cupcake
North to Alaska!
we are already dead we just don't know it yet
Please do the right thing & reforest outward from where forests already are with native diversity or a diversity of what will take. Particularly on slopes & hillsides and their leadup from the west, as the west side of the Rockies is the wet side or rain shadow of he Rockies. This should start northward where it still rains periodically, then work southwards. This is how to re-establish the hydrological cycle. In short, how treed slopes cause an upward flow of water vapour from tree transpiration that piles up into rain clouds. Hydrology 101, or part thereof.
Instead of going for settlements on mars we should go for settlements in the desert.
The future for humans are not hard to reach other planets, but the challenging places right at our doorstep.
Stop destroying lush nature, go to the places, nature has left for us.
We are generations away from colonizing another planet. We see now the results of creating settlements in desert areas. Droughts are expected in arid/desert areas and ancient inhabitants had to migrate to other areas because of droughts.
they want mars because they can create unlimited hydrogen if water is discovered on the planet, maybe scientist could do the same thing on this planet, we did create TANG through the space program
5:39 the baffling green lawns in the US.🤦♂️ unless one uses waste water to these, it is a huge waste
So wtf are you gonna do, ban gardens and yards?
@@e2220 wtf you said that not me
@@zodiacfml yes but im asking what you are proposing to do....
Deadly charges for humans but normal for the cycle of nature.
3:50 water you mean from like the toilet? what we need is brawndo.
Nothing happens without a purpose and they all are not good.
Growing plants is one of the biggest problem causing this diseaster.
We should eat more meat (from pastures)...
Build a pipeline to new Orleans, and Houston. Win win help keep there houses from flooding and provide water to California.
Covid put majority of air traffic
in moth balls....grounded for almost two years.
Ever since the pollution is not protecting us from sever drought and consequently forest fires etc.
If we put half the plane back up there we might not have these abnormally hot circumstances.
Plus we would do better for environment if we only have half as many plane flying.
What about to use less water in the toilet?
California just released 16,000,000 gallons in one day into the ocean raw sewage. Good job guys .
Thats.... essentially nothing
Sure, water recyclers can remove the impurities from your neighbor's toilet water, but they can't remove the smell.
Shouldn’t we have invested in solar energy generation given the cost of climate change?
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@Michael Angelo "The climate has been changing since the beginning of time"
Everybody knows that, genius. That's not the issue. The problem is how quickly it is changing now, and that is largely man-made. Also, yes, even without humans the climate has changed relatively quickly on a number of occasions in Earth's past, but I also want to point out that this has resulted in mass extinctions several times.
@@antred11 there’s zero proof that man is causing any noticeable change in climate. If so then how much of “climate change” is naturally occurring & how much is due to AGW? It’s a moot point anyway because we are currently sitting at -0.01c BELOW the 40 year baseline for global temperature. There is no climate emergency.
You spend more fossil fuels making wind and solar than they can save in their lifetime. Plus your simply trading fossil fuel for strip mining the planet for rare earth minerals utilizing child & slave labor.
In 2019 we had 200% snow pack. Where did all that water go? So why are the water bottling plants able to steal and take our water? We need to audit what is going on with our water. I am not going to drink grey water.
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This was a great and concise report.
For a middle school democrat raised idealist you did very well.
Tell you're teacher to give you a c+
I'M WATCHING A VIDEO ON HOW THE L.A. AQUEDUCT IS GIVING THAT CITY UNLIMITED WATER BUT THE REST OF CALIFORNIA ND FOUR OTHER STATES AND MEXICO ARE LITERALLY DYING FROM LACK OF THIS RESOURCE. THE SIERRAS ARE NEARLY BONE DRY???
You can not remove pesticides medication toxins ect
I imagine it getting so bad out west that there will be a mass exodus due to power loss and water scarcity. Hope I'm wrong.
Californians have been leaving for decades and moving to the Pacific NW, screwing up things here.
CA should be thinking about building more Dams, or under ground water storage. Perhaps a water pipeline from wet states, or importing water by Trains that bring in millions of gallons a day. Just a thought. If we can transport gas across the country, we should be able to do the same with water via pipelines or rail. No serious impact to nature if a water pipeline leaks or a water train has a mishap. Do we really need lush green lawns in our front yard? Why not just Zero-scape your front yard, ditch the lawn entirely, and have a nice back yard lawn. We ripped out our front lawn years ago, saved thousands on water bills over the last decade. Look, with out your property having access to water...your house is worth nothing! $0 If you live in a million dollar home, or a double wide trailer...with out access to water, your property value is ZERO...worthless! That's just my two cents on the topic. Feel free to send hate in the comment area below lol
California with the financial support of the landlocked western states in drought should seriously build many desalination plants, relying on nature along with climate change is not enough!
Why not just reuse the toilet water that way..and not use it for drinking water.
Cut off everyone’s lawn water by 50%.
We've already been rationing lawn/garden water in most areas and have strict cutoff times for at least a decade now. Notably the southern California part where I reside. I cannot speak for mid/northern Cali nor other areas besides Orange County.
To note, I am in favor of no more lawns here but the white majority neighborhoods do not want a change in their lifestyle and there's a lot of pressure to "keep lawns healthy" due to it being a "tradition" here and that it's unAmerican if you do not care for your lawns. I'm okay with keeping trees and gardening since we need to prevent soil erosion but I find lawns to be pretty worthless and useless while all it does is increase our water bills.
@@bootyitch7458 Thank you so much for your response. We are all hosed.
Who's using more water, the 7 billion humans, or the 70 billion enslaved animals and the crops to feed them all? Animal Ag is a huge waste.
The folks in California leaving the crappie life. Geez, recycled toilet water another reason not to live in California. I just went outside and wet down my entire landscape. There is no water shortage, power restrictions or scaled down living to make up for the shortfalls.
Where are you?
Toilet to tap? What about Primary Water?
*points at drought* There's not much there.
California should have exported all the firewood to Europe before the fires started, that could have solved two problems: 1. Europe would get a good score on CO2 emissions for using renewable biomass. 2. California would not have wild fires, and also made money in the process.
The politician made this problem! Permanent Fix: CA uses 109 cubic km a year. The Columbia lose 236 cubic km into The Pacific every year - What a waste. Only 1 to 15% of this will fix thsi. CA should buy water from the North. You only need a 358m/573km long tunnel, that is easy (China new Aquaducts are more expensive and advanced).
Now i miss chemtrails and cloud seeding
Is it draught or climate change? Also, water recycling doesn't do anything about forest fires.
What kind of a question is that?
Avoiding meat and dairy is "THE SINGLE BIGGEST WAY" to reduce your environmental impact on Earth. 🌍 - Oxford University
Trees ore the future 🙏🌳❤
drought? nay. Desertification, yes.
Cut down all the trees to make golf courses instead. Water and cut the grass every day. Wet short grass don't burn. Have you ever seen a. Golf course fire?
Thats the price you pay to live in blue sky hell.
😇 Earthquakes - Eruptions 😇
Always Follow Mega-Droughts
Pls. Pray the rosary to free all countries from war, hunger, diseases, climate change, calamities, drugs, prostitution, homosexuality, abortion, divorce, corruption, vices, violence and all evil.pls pray for peace and joy in all families and home.,.
Toilet water ew? Singapore just not doing it for nothing.
It always takes a great disaster or loss for us humans to try and change for the better and be more efficient and save.
And here we are destroying the Amazon rain forest as fast as we can hack it down…….
I ain't drinking no water my 450 pound neighbor shat in!
Exactly! Even if it's filtered, tap water tastes like sh!t compared to certain bottled water like Crystal Geyser where they bottle water at the source.
It’s not that we are experiencing an extreme drought… it’s that we have been too used to experiencing extreme wet seasons and forgot that we live in a desert where low rainfall is natural. Oh how man judges his environment by what man wants it to be today and not what nature has been doing for millions of years. To say that any deviation in the environment from today is unnatural is man’s self centered egomania speaking.
Don’t drink the water in California
Every year when it rains, the concrete hannels of the LA, San Gabriel, and Santa Ana "Rivers" fill with rain water that then flows it's way to the sea. Why not find a way to harvest what little rain that comes that is not mud and debris infested? It's already channeled through concrete chutes, might as well collect it and bottle it.
The problem is the incredibly wasteful agriculture in California. They sill flood their fields. In comparison, other countries, mainly Israel have all their farms use drip irrigation and reuse over 80% of the water in the entire country. California has a drought, but they are dealing with it horribly, and that is the problem, not the lack of water.
They let the car was businesses continue to use water. I am sure there are other businesses use too much water. Then tell all residences to reduce their water usage. Don't be hike up our bills because you can not manage the water and let too much out of the dams. You need to regulate the water better. We get the farmers need the water so you need to get the water in check and stop telling us what to do. It is all your Fault on the people involved with regulating the water. You ALL should be fined for not regulating the water properly. That would NOT affect our home billing due to your Neglect to properly maintenace the water.