6 Scary Facts About California's Drought

[Bennyboy]

33. Well let's take a look at current CA water plans shall we?

This is coming from a Democratic HERO< Jerry Brown:

Expand fracking.

The tunnels shipping NORCAL water south for agricultural interest.

Yep lotta conservation involved in those plans.

The Governor declares a drought and yet tells NOT ONE SINGLE BUSINESS IN THE STATE to stop watering. OR FRACKING. or put the tunnel plan on hold. or stop water deliveries.

No, the most forward thinking plan so far (not the Governor's.......yet) is decades old, dam some more rivers to hold water. The long dead Auburn dam is being revived.

At the same time, the best business to be in right now is well drilling. EVERYONE is having their wells dug another 50 feet, after having done that 5-10 years ago.........

Now I can say that a State can make it rain and wave my Bear Flag but that ain't gonna help. THERE IS NO WATER. NONE> ZIP< NADA< ZERO. The Sierras have NO SNOW on them. NONE. (and what they make is so water intensive, especially with the warm daytime temps and melting) And as much as I would like the ghost of Earl Warren to wave his magic wand and make it rain, it ain't gonna happen. We may get rain, even a lot of rain, but the cards are dealt and have been for a few years now. A drop in the bucket isn't even going to be that really.

Water deliveries are going to seriously curtailed for farming this year and that means one hell of a lot of people are going to be out of work. Millions of people. Farm workers (they still count don't they?) to truckers, to processing plants, to distributors to consumers.

then we have a serious problem with our fruit trees with no rain this winter. Devastating crops. Again we are talking millions of jobs. We are already seeing it with avocados. http://www.cbsnews.com/videos
/avocado-crops-feeling-sting-of-california-drought/

My good friends are all almond farmers in the Chico area and they are freaking out right now. The trees need water, and that has always been provided via rainfall, but now they are having to buy water or let the trees die. They also need to drill a series of new wells. (Enormous cost). Thankfully, they are using the aquifer for most of their water, rather than rely on deliveries, but that will drain the aquifer sooner rather than later.. And the almond industry produces MILLIONS OF JOBS........One of the biggest private industries in Sacramento is the Almond industry.

We are talking MILLIONS of people with no income, no jobs, no water no nothing come June and July.