California farms lose main water source to drought »
Posted By altnrg 9 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & TechnologyCalifornia's main source of irrigation water is expected to go dry this year for most of its growers due to drought, idling at least 60,000 workers and up to 1 million acres of farmland, federal officials and experts said on Friday.
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canadianrancher579 months, 3 weeks ago
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I'm a little curious about how much water is available in the area that is protected and how much of an impact it would make if it was available. I have had dealings with both water management specialists and also endangered species people and have found that they are the most narrow thinking people I've ever run into, at times there are simple solutions that would work to keep both sides happy when dealing with water shortage problems but these people seem to be unable to prioritise what is important and what is not.
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snowman36r9 months, 3 weeks ago
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For years the area has been trying to get more water storage areas built (dams and such) but the enviomentalist keep suing to keep it from happening. we went thru a 8 year drought in the late 70's early 80's and saw this coming. One way I guess would be to cut off L.A.'s water supply from here and that would get the fields growwing again. That would force southern california to start trapping some of the water they let just wash into the ocean.
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The area has more then enough to survive but it has to be sent down to 50 million people that probley don't have the foggyest idea what water conservation is.
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snowman36r9 months, 3 weeks ago
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Try more like a p!ss poor california goverment that has made poor decisions in the last 20 years regaurding water storage and lack of concern for agriculture. (which I'm sure leads by far in income to the state for revenues) there watching there stupidity come to frutition. The California goverment has already lost untold monies from property tax, not to mention tax revenue from busines that have left the state because of over regulation caused in most part by idiot enviormentalist. I realize the states is in a drought but because of a stupid smelt ,water can't be delived to the west side farmers so now your looking at a loss of major revenue. How much in the hole is california going to be next year?They were 40 Billion this year and doubled the cost of regeristing vehicled to make up for it not to mention raising sales and state tax. What are they going to do next year if the drought continues and they can't send water to the other side of the san juquine valley? Are people prepared to watch the price of produce increase 5-10 fold because of a friggin fish?
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