RTNASA’s top water scientist says California only has about one year’s worth of water left in storage, and its groundwater – often used as a backup for reservoirs and other reserves – is rapidly depleting. He suggests immediately rationing water.
California just had the driest January since record-keeping began in 1895, with groundwater and snowpack levels at all-time lows, NASA scientist Jay Familglietti wrote in a column for the Los Angeles Times. He said the state has been running out of water since before the current years-long drought and storage levels have been falling since at least 2002, according to NASA satellite data.
“California has no contingency plan for a persistent drought like this one (let alone a 20-plus-year mega-drought), except, apparently, staying in emergency mode and praying for rain,” said Familglietti. “In short, we have no paddle to navigate this crisis.”
NASA Responds to California's Evolving Drought | NASA http://t.co/1LfFxh7r9I#climatechange pic.twitter.com/aprOYQL3qE
— Darryl Howery (@dghowery) March 7, 2015
A team of NASA scientists, using the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites, discovered that the state’s Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins were 11 trillion gallons (41.6 trillion liters) below normal seasonal levels. The researchers say that water levels have steadily dropped since the launch of GRACE in 2002.
Californians use an average of 181 gallons of water each day and a total of around 2.5 trillion gallons a year, according to data from the USGS website.
Familglietti called for an immediate and dramatic rationing of water, including for domestic, municipal, agricultural and industrial uses. A recent Field Poll shows that 94 percent of Californians surveyed believe the drought is serious, and one-third support mandatory rationing.
https://twitter.com/WorldAgNetwork/status/545958572048543745
Other solutions to rationing are desalination plants. San Diego is building the largest ocean desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere. The $1 billion project will deliver 50 million gallons of drinking water a day and is scheduled to open in 2016, while 15 other plants are planned along the coastline from Los Angeles to the San Francisco Basin.
But there are a few drawbacks: the San Diego plant requires more electricity to produce than any other water source, and in order to get 50 million gallons of drinking water it has to process 100 million gallons of seawater, which once returned to the ocean as discharge water has double the saline level.
https://twitter.com/UsedtoUseful/status/564121438357946372
“This plant can’t come online fast enough,” Bob Yamada, water resources manager at the San Diego County Water Authority, told the Sacramento Bee. The Authority serves 3.1 million people and is buying all of the plant’s freshwater production.
“It’s drought-proof. That’s one of the most important attributes. It will be the most reliable water source we have,” he added.
Desalination has been adopted by other nations with fewer natural freshwater supplies – Israel, Australia and Saudi Arabia, for example.
Another remedy being considered by California municipalities is wastewater recycling, which involves treating city sewage to drinking water standards and using it to refill reservoirs.
Hey Funny Farmer. Your brain is functioning normally. Good common sense is so lacking these days.
Ah, a classic “problem-reaction-solution” scam. My response to the option of rationing would be ‘or you could just stop using aerosols and EM arrays to redirect moisture north or south of California”. Many probably don’t realize that they are spraying aerosols (chemtrails) over the Pacific to change the way storms form, while at the same time using at least one EM array (HAARP-style) to break up storms from the south. They are maintaining the “drought”.
This is just like the ISIS scam, where they build up this enemy and declare that we have to go fight them. “Or you could stop supporting them with money, weapons and supplies, internet access, etc.”
If you get a distiller (for water) you can literally go down to the ocean and load up with buckets of water to purify. We (don’t live in CA) use a simple counter-top distiller that I purchased five years ago for $99 to take the fluoride, chlorine, pharmaceuticals and other contaminants out of the water. Keeps us healthy and our brains clear, too. The would-be controllers won’t tell you about these options because they want you dependent on them and their mega-projects.
I agree completely Neo. Don’t forget about the land grab. Rich aholes will buy that farmland for pennies on the dollar and once their done buying…lo and behold, it’s a miracle. It’s raining again.
Exactly.
It follows the movie “China Town” script about blowing people out of good land with drought.
And then, after the cheap purchase, magically the water will reappear.
In this case, by altering the weather engineering and financing lots of desalination plants.
During the 2006 drought, by autumn, the City of Atlanta had only 90 days of water left, and continued to water their golf courses.
Southwest drought monitor:
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/RegionalDroughtMonitor.aspx?west
California golf courses:
https://www.google.com/maps/search/california+golf+courses/@37.2718745,-119.2704153,6z/data=!3m1!4b1
That is called “‘Tiger Woods” privilege.
https://youtu.be/AUaPleXoK8E
Exactly Jeno. Here on the Central Coast of CA, we have an underground primary water reservoir our city taps into and no one knows how it is being refilled. The speculation though is that the water is coming all the way from Phoenix, AZ through the fault lines.
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sorry Jeno, but the theory doesnt apply…there is no water, underground, or in the skies, nor anywhere..science is worse than religion. These scientists are so stupid they dont even recognize chemtrail/HAARP etc…controlling the weather is a simple thing. The basic concepts of controlling the weather should have been taught to us when in kindergarden.
NASA’s top water scientist?
So he’s the best liar in that department.