6 Scary Facts About California's Drought

[Bennyboy]

3. People are now starting to leave CA. This is going to be devastating here. No food. Not just for CA

but we supply an awful lot of the world's food. Right now it is time to buy seed, and with no water, why would you bother? No seed, no crops. No crops no food, no jobs in the fields, the processing plants, the trucking companies..... no nothing.

The thing is, with this water shortage nobody has said stop watering your freaking lawn and stop fracking. (We do a LOT of that in CA believe it or not) average lawn uses 20K gallons per year of water. Fracking takes millions of gallons per well.....Pisses me off.

I went around to water up here in the sierras yesterday and there ain't none. There is not ONE INCH OF SNOW on the mountains that is not man made for skiers. (and that takes MASSIVE amounts of water to create) There is no water in the lakes, the rivers, the streams or the NID Ditches. NO WATER. Today I am going downstream from the Sierras to the valley and will look there, but I already know the lake levels. At my home lake, Folsom, the level is lower than anytime in my lifetime.......The old town of Mormon island is exposed and that has never happened. The river is in the original, pre dam channel now.

Anyone remember the pentagon report on global warming? Well, it is happening. Millions of people are about to be on the move in this country in search of water. Not gonna happen all at once, but it going to happen. Katrina is part of that. 1/3 of the city is gone and a good number of them moved to a place that has water issues, like Texas, or Arizona, or CA, where the situation is about to become desperate.

Here's a thread about the migration from the other day that I started: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024357024