Water in California and the rest of the western USA - going, going, gone...

[RVTECH]

The town of Crescent just south of me is on major water restrictions due to a city wells water table dropping.

 

[BrentN]

This may sound cynical but I am just a little. Without a crisis you can't make draconian climate laws. Empty the reservoirs and you have a drought. Who controls the dams?

We have spent, and will continue to spend, trillions of dollars on infrastructure. Yet none of these problems are even on the radar. The money is collected and spent, but the problems persist. I guess folks can come up with their own conclusions.
Gov Brown has enjoyed a year + of emergency orders. Did she make any move at all to prevent the forests of Oregon from burning this coming summer? Any expansion of fire lanes? Clearing of underbrush? Selective logging that would automatically help to prevent forest fires? You know, there comes a ton of power and infuence to a person that gets to direct a billion or more dollars in an "emergency" situation. Checks and balances go out the window. I hate everything about her, but she is an amazing politician, and knows exactly what she is doing.
Last week, Gov Inslee was in Vancouver bragging at all the jobs "created" as the windmill parts arrive from the orient. Sad.
We are no longer an industrious nation able to problem solve.

 

[Longwalkhome]

We have spent, and will continue to spend, trillions of dollars on infrastructure. Yet none of these problems are even on the radar. The money is collected and spent, but the problems persist. I guess folks can come up with their own conclusions.
Gov Brown has enjoyed a year + of emergency orders. Did she make any move at all to prevent the forests of Oregon from burning this coming summer? Any expansion of fire lanes? Clearing of underbrush? Selective logging that would automatically help to prevent forest fires? You know, there comes a ton of power and infuence to a person that gets to direct a billion or more dollars in an "emergency" situation. Checks and balances go out the window. I hate everything about her, but she is an amazing politician, and knows exactly what she is doing.
Last week, Gov Inslee was in Vancouver bragging at all the jobs "created" as the windmill parts arrive from the orient. Sad.
We are no longer an industrious nation able to problem solve.

The problem in Oregon is mail in ballots are corrupt and thats why we in Oregon can't solve our problems. When you can't remove the corrupt then your state goes communist. Kates emergency orders are just that, communism.

 

[Tony617]

I am assuming that this the reason for the man human made drought in California.

Despite record-breaking drought conditions, California officials are draining reservoirs - Prepare For Change

The “EVENT” is the moment of the “Compression Breakthrough” on earth. COBRA guides us to prepare for change, for the Event and disclosure.

prepareforchange.net

 

[red442joe]

Carefully what you say, they will have you eating people to solve the problems they are selling you.

Vegans are meat.

Joe

 

[gmerkt]

We have spent, and will continue to spend, trillions of dollars on infrastructure. Yet none of these problems are even on the radar.

"Infrastructure" in the US no longer includes pouring concrete for dams, waterways, etc. Too political.

Some day, it may come to construction of public water catchment facilities for those occasions when it does rain. And store that water rather than allowing it to run away downstream. Think of them as giant water barrels. Like they have on Ascension island, used to have on Gibraltar. Smaller ones are very common on Caribbean, Hawaiian and other islands. Water from the roof is caught in individual cisterns for later use.

I've been "working" on my own here for years, maybe current events will hasten me along.

 

[Provincial]

Some governments consider rain water to be the property of the State. It is illegal to catch rain water and store it without permission.

Without water, you cannot live. Search "water culture" and find out the extreme effect of control of water.

 

[CountryGent]

Somewhat related: Weather Service warns of 'dangerous' and 'historic' heat wave in Pacific Northwest

 

[Retired Guy]

Indeed. We cannot increase or decrease the amount of water on planet earth. Less water here means more there. It does not rain salt water, so clearly there is no crisis with fresh flowing into salt. The world would have perished from salinity eons ago if that was the case.

What I wish there was, is a shortage of doomsayers.

I agree that there is a finite amount of water. But I think the issues are the availability of clean drinking water. Plus controlling where that water is located.

If you're located in LA or Phoenix and the reservoirs are running very low, it is no consolation to you that Alabama is underwater.

"Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink"

 

[clanhanson]

The problem in Oregon is mail in ballots are corrupt and thats why we in Oregon can't solve our problems. When you can't remove the corrupt then your state goes communist. Kates emergency orders are just that, communism.

Are you including all the mail in ballots sent since the Civil War or just the ones with bubbles filled in that you don't agree with? I suppose all the military ballots sent over the decades from overseas are corrupt, too.

 

[po18guy]

I agree that there is a finite amount of water. But I think the issues are the availability of clean drinking water. Plus controlling where that water is located.

If you're located in LA or Phoenix and the reservoirs are running very low, it is no consolation to you that Alabama is underwater.

"Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink"

The west had droughts 150 years ago. Weather patterns, then and now - complicated today by incompetent government.

 

[arakboss]

The west had droughts 150 years ago. Weather patterns, then and now - complicated today by incompetent government.

....and many more millions of water users.


Nature probably isn't going to start dumping more water in a region so it can meet a growing population's demand.

 

[arakboss]

Cattle are competing against grasshoppers for food in the West's historic drought. The bugs are winning. | CNN

The West's historic drought has ranchers fighting against another problem besides water shortages: a prolific hoard of grasshoppers is competing with cattle for food.

www.cnn.com

 

[ATCclears]

Mexico City and its metro area.


About 70 per cent of Mexico is impacted by drought, up from about half in December. About a fifth of the country is experiencing extreme drought compared to less than 5 per cent each year since 2012.

Experts fear the problem will reach more of the 22 million inhabitants of Mexico City's metro area, which is quenched by a network of reservoirs. Some districts have no piped drinking water at the best of times.

"I have no doubt that in 2022 there will be a crisis," said Sanchez, who anticipates possible social unrest. "The reservoirs are completely depleted."

Crops at risk as Mexico’s water supply buckles under worsening drought

Experts are sounding the alarm that parched crops could underproduce as temperatures hit 40 degrees Celsius on Wednesday in some parts of northern Mexico, including key farming areas

www.theglobeandmail.com

 

[Idaho44]

Mexico City and its metro area.


About 70 per cent of Mexico is impacted by drought, up from about half in December. About a fifth of the country is experiencing extreme drought compared to less than 5 per cent each year since 2012.

Experts fear the problem will reach more of the 22 million inhabitants of Mexico City's metro area, which is quenched by a network of reservoirs. Some districts have no piped drinking water at the best of times.

"I have no doubt that in 2022 there will be a crisis," said Sanchez, who anticipates possible social unrest. "The reservoirs are completely depleted."

Crops at risk as Mexico’s water supply buckles under worsening drought

Experts are sounding the alarm that parched crops could underproduce as temperatures hit 40 degrees Celsius on Wednesday in some parts of northern Mexico, including key farming areas

www.theglobeandmail.com

Does that mean no more cartel avocados?

 

[arakboss]

Does that mean no more cartel avocados?

They will probably cut the avacodos with something. No more pure avocados for us.

 

[The Heretic]

They will probably cut the avacodos with something. No more pure avocados for us.

Just like "wasabi" (i.e., horseradish died green).

 

[The Heretic]

Domestic wells run dry in many Klamath Basin homes

“I don’t even know how to explain the gut wrenching reaction you have when you go to turn on the faucet and no water comes out,” said a woman whose well has run dry.

www.kgw.com

 

[arakboss]

Domestic wells run dry in many Klamath Basin homes

“I don’t even know how to explain the gut wrenching reaction you have when you go to turn on the faucet and no water comes out,” said a woman whose well has run dry.

www.kgw.com

Bad situation down there. Our community well was closed the weekend before last. As far as I know it is still closed down. I will be bringing extra water with me for this weekends trip to cabin.

 

[91A PE]

Bad situation down there. Our community well was closed the weekend before last. As far as I know it is still closed down. I will be bringing extra water with me for this weekends trip to cabin.

Took the family camping down there a few years ago. Beautiful country. Hope they can work things out.

'There Are No Winners Here': Drought in the Klamath Basin Inflames a Decades-Old War Over Water and Fish - Inside Climate News

TULELAKE, Calif.—Joey Gentry hesitates before she drives through the fields of alfalfa and wheat that line the roads in the Klamath Basin. “Because I’m good and brown,” said Gentry, a member of the Klamath Tribes and a tribal and racial justice activist. ”It’s not safe for Natives to be out in...

insideclimatenews.org