How California Could Have Avoided Its Epic Water Crisis


Published on Jun 10, 2015 by ReasonTV

California’s water crisis is the disaster everybody saw coming but nobody had the political will to stop. It’s the byproduct of a broken system that’s dominated by self-serving elites and misguided ideologues. Or so says Joel Kotkin, a distinguished professor at Chapman University, who writes frequently about Golden State politics.

Kotkin says the drought could have been avoided through a combination of tactics, such as making farmers pay closer to a market rate on the water they use, or by allowing desalinization, a process in which the salt is removed from ocean water. But California’s political leaders couldn’t get it together to enact the policies that would have averted the water crisis.

If the Golden State can’t fix its water problems, Kotkin argues, many industries will have to leave the state, destroying opportunities for poorer Californians, and exacerbating the growing class divide.

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Produced by Alex Manning. Camera by Alexis Garcia.

6 thoughts on “How California Could Have Avoided Its Epic Water Crisis

  1. “Kotkin says the drought could have been avoided through a combination of tactics, such as making farmers pay closer to a market rate on the water they use, or by allowing desalinization, a process in which the salt is removed from ocean water.”

    None of that matters as long as HAARP is running the show.

    1. You are absolutely right! The closest hint of the real cause of the draught was when the subject mentioned how less water would lower population growth, which would please the “Greens”.

    2. Bingo !!! Our drought IS manufactured. I’ve watched the PAC SAT daily for 14 years, and back then we NEVER had a storm system coming at us across the Pacific, abruptly turn 90 degrees to the north 200 – 500 miles offshore, and miss us completely. Last few years it’s been storm after storm. THAT is neither normal or natural. Period.

  2. Raging zionist joo bag Joel Kotkin addresses everything EXCEPT the lack of rainfall and weather manipulation due to chemtrailing by his masters. (Unless he mentions it in the latter half of the video. I couldn’t stand to hear his fat joo mouth any longer)

    I want to punch his kosher mouth with a bacon fist.

    Good post, Wade. Exposes who their official propagandists are.

  3. How about kicking out a couple million illegals. Nobody thinks about what they drain from the local resources. Not just money but everything. They are a cancer and need to be removed.

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