And the band played on

[Delta4Embassy]

As the Titanic sank, musicians resigned to their imminent deaths continued to play to help keep people calm. As water in California runs out, people seem willfully distracted by news of anything but that.

California Is Turning Back Into A Desert And There Are No Contingency Plans

"Once upon a time, much of the state of California was a barren desert. And now, thanks to the worst drought in modern American history, much of the state is turning back into one. Scientists tell us that the 20th century was the wettest century that the state of California had seen in 1000 years. But now weather patterns are reverting back to historical norms, and California is rapidly running out of water. It is being reported that the state only has approximately a one year supply of water left in the reservoirs, and when the water is all gone there are no contingency plans. Back in early 2014, California Governor Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency for the entire state, but since that time water usage has only dropped by 9 percent. That is not nearly enough. The state of California has been losing more than 12 million acre-feet of total water a year since 2011, and we are quickly heading toward an extremely painful water crisis unlike anything that any of us have ever seen before."

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Why don't you condense all these Cali drought posts in one thread?

 

[hunarcy]

As the Titanic sank, musicians resigned to their imminent deaths continued to play to help keep people calm. As water in California runs out, people seem willfully distracted by news of anything but that.

California Is Turning Back Into A Desert And There Are No Contingency Plans

"Once upon a time, much of the state of California was a barren desert. And now, thanks to the worst drought in modern American history, much of the state is turning back into one. Scientists tell us that the 20th century was the wettest century that the state of California had seen in 1000 years. But now weather patterns are reverting back to historical norms, and California is rapidly running out of water. It is being reported that the state only has approximately a one year supply of water left in the reservoirs, and when the water is all gone there are no contingency plans. Back in early 2014, California Governor Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency for the entire state, but since that time water usage has only dropped by 9 percent. That is not nearly enough. The state of California has been losing more than 12 million acre-feet of total water a year since 2011, and we are quickly heading toward an extremely painful water crisis unlike anything that any of us have ever seen before."

When you get out of your Chicken Little mode, you might realize that your State has been using up the groundwater since the beginning of the 20th Century without taking steps to conserve water and this crisis actually has nothing to do with climate change.

 

[jwoodie]

Are we talking about Jerry Brown the Former or Jerry Brown the Latter? During his first stint as Governor, he opposed the Auburn Dam which would have added enormous water storage capacity as well as flood protection to the Sacramento Valley. 40 years later, he wakes up and supports a $7 billion "water bond" that will do almost nothing to alleviate the water shortage in California. He is nothing more than a tool of the Hollywood/environmental wacko crowd whose only purpose is to line the pockets of his friends with grotesque over-expenditures of public funds.

He did the same thing with transportation: In the 1970's, he canceled every highway project in the State, exacerbating the traffic nightmare that Californians experience every day. Now he wants to build a $100 billion "high speed rail" system that is 100 miles away from any major population centers (i.e., bullet trains to nowhere).

And now the morons have elected him to a fourth term! California is doomed.