• California Shuts Major Water Supply as Drought Worsens
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[url]http://nation.time.com/2014/01/31/california-shuts-major-water-supply-as-drought-worsens/[/url] [QUOTE]California announced Friday that a major source of water for areas throughout the state will halt all deliveries for 2014 until further notice, an unprecedented move indicating the ongoing and historic California drought is only getting worse. The State Water Project, a system of reservoirs and water delivery systems helping supply Northern California, the San Francisco Bay area, the San Joaquin Valley, the Central Coast, and Southern California, had already been distributing water at historically low rates due to several successive years of drought conditions. Friday’s action by the state Department of Water Resources means the 25 million residents and 750,000 acres of farmland that receive water from the system will have to rely more heavily on other sources, including other reservoirs. Many key reservoirs in the state are at levels far below average. A measurement taken Thursday in the Sierra Nevada, a major supplier of water to the state when the snowpack melts each spring, found water content in the peaks is only about 12 percent of average for this time of year. [/QUOTE] [url]http://nation.time.com/2014/01/31/california-shuts-major-water-supply-as-drought-worsens/[/url]
So how do they do this, exactly, without depleting other sources? Lower water flow/pressure? It's already insanely low at my parents', and they live only a few blocks away from a desalination plant. When they visited me in Colorado one of the first things they commented on was the water pressure.
California is more than welcome to come pick up some of the snow on the east coast :v:
Geeze, whats wrong with the world now-a-days. West coast is drying up, East coast is driving in slushy water all day. The fuck!
[QUOTE=NoobieWafer223;43749709]Geeze, whats wrong with the world now-a-days. West coast is drying up, East coast is driving in slushy water all day. The fuck![/QUOTE] Climate change. Only going to get worse too.
[QUOTE=NoobieWafer223;43749709]Geeze, whats wrong with the world now-a-days. West coast is drying up, East coast is driving in slushy water all day. The fuck![/QUOTE] Oregon and washington are doing perfectly fine, its just central and southern california.
California is weakened! Now is the time to attack!
I miss the rain.
[QUOTE=Angus725;43749900]Climate change. Only going to get worse too.[/QUOTE] Possibly dust bowl again?
You can have our water if you want, it hasn't stopped raining for more than a day in about 2 months.
[QUOTE=cathal6606;43751168]You can have our water if you want, it hasn't stopped raining for more than a day in about 2 months.[/QUOTE] over here in sacramento it rained only once in about two months just a few days ago
Stuff is serious when you consider California's contributions to the whole US agricultural produce
Every time I hear about our drought issue I think: "How the hell do we get out of this one?" It's truly worrisome.
someone should build a water-pipeline, i know it sounds like a stupid idea, but we have pipeline technology, and we could easily transport water from aquifers and reservoirs here on the east coast to the west coast
Hey you guys can have as much rain from england as you want
[QUOTE=Angus725;43749900]Climate change. Only going to get worse too.[/QUOTE] It's not getting worse. We're just not adapting to the change.
i'm pretty sure an evil villain is stealing the water
[QUOTE=InsaneParrot;43751645]i'm pretty sure an evil villain is stealing the water[/QUOTE] Sounds like an episode of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
Here in So California where I live it's actually a desert. Yet we have millions of people living here, many with green lawns, lush gardens, washing their cars in the driveway, running their sprinklers at will...it's a wonder it lasted this long. It's a sad fact of life that sometimes people need to be forced to do what's right, they won't willingly choose it. Adapting to a more sustainable lifestyle is probably in the near future for us here, like it or not.
Easy solution to the drought problems: Force Californians to remove all the grass in their lawns and backyards, and if they don't charge them $3500 each month to have it. Because you know, you really shouldn't have a lawn in a goddamn desert.
Patrolling the Mo- Californian desert sure makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
I hate to say it, but I really haven't gotten notice of either of these problems up until this news article. Meanwhile my roommates insist on taking 30 minute showers each..
[QUOTE=Valiantttt;43752746]Patrolling the Mo- Californian desert sure makes you wish for a nuclear winter.[/QUOTE] Well a chunk of the Mojave is actually in the southeastern part of our state so that would be far off. The last time it actually rained was a good while ago. People out here live like it's just another place in the US when it's really a naturally dry area of the US. A lot of water is wasted.
[QUOTE=Sableye;43751466]someone should build a water-pipeline, i know it sounds like a stupid idea, but we have pipeline technology, and we could easily transport water from aquifers and reservoirs here on the east coast to the west coast[/QUOTE] Isn't that what the utility company in GTA V does? Only using a pipeline from Canada instead?
It rained for about 36 hours on an and off for the first time in nearly 2 full months here in Sacramento. It needs to rain for a full two months for us to make up the loss. If it doesn't happen, get ready for a biblical fire season.
What would you do if the taps suddenly went run dry?
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;43752716]Easy solution to the drought problems: Force Californians to remove all the grass in their lawns and backyards, and if they don't charge them $3500 each month to have it. Because you know, you really shouldn't have a lawn in a goddamn desert.[/QUOTE] CA is the most populated state in the US, and is considered the luxurious state in the union, no one is gonna get rid of their grass
[QUOTE=GnomeMan;43751406]Every time I hear about our drought issue I think: "How the hell do we get out of this one?" It's truly worrisome.[/QUOTE] This is probably going to make me sound like an ass, but my train of thought goes more like "Oh, another drought in California...why is anyone surprised?" A huge amount of that state is literally considered 'the desert.' It's not a surprise that there isn't much rainfall, and neither are the consequences of that. Don't get me wrong, I feel bad for the folks living there when this stuff happens, but I sometimes think that people forget about what kind of ecosytem they're living in. Hell, California has had droughts in the past that have lasted ~200 years.
[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;43752575]Here in So California where I live it's actually a desert. Yet we have millions of people living here, many with green lawns, lush gardens, washing their cars in the driveway, running their sprinklers at will...it's a wonder it lasted this long. It's a sad fact of life that sometimes people need to be forced to do what's right, they won't willingly choose it. Adapting to a more sustainable lifestyle is probably in the near future for us here, like it or not.[/QUOTE] Meanwhile, in Colorado, many cities and counties have been actively encouraging people to install landscaping in their yards that requires little to no water for years. Even when we have great years for rain and snowpack, we always have a drought. Probably because we send a shit ton of water to places like Arizona so they can water their big grassy parks and golf courses.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;43752716]Easy solution to the drought problems: Force Californians to remove all the grass in their lawns and backyards, and if they don't charge them $3500 each month to have it. Because you know, you really shouldn't have a lawn in a goddamn desert.[/QUOTE] I think a better alternative would be inflating the price (via a levy, collected as tax by the local or state government) of water utilities for households, with regards to the number of occupants in that house. If a family of four uses a hundred units of water per month, okay that might be acceptable. If a single person uses a hundred units of water per month, make that person know he's using way too much by putting a levy on his water bill. If the water usage by even the family is above a certain threshold, make them know that it's just too much usage by having a progressive levy (using brackets like a progressive income tax system). Then re-invest that money collected through the levy in research or implementation of water-efficient technologies.
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