California Drought (Santa Ana, Santa Rosa, Napa: buyers, taxes, living in)

[NORTY FLATZ]

Drought?

What drought?

We have LOTS of water! (Especially, at high tide!)

[Racer46]

Originally Posted by NORTY FLATZ

Drought?

What drought?

We have LOTS of water! (Especially, at high tide!)

But there is no way to hook it to my sprinklers or my shower.

[Vision67]

California drought: Where snowpack level stands after most critical survey of the year

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/...s-17049912.php

"California’s wet season is coming to a close without fulfilling hopes of drought relief, meaning another year of painful water shortages and widespread calls for conservation.

The modest snowpack that state water officials will find at their April 1 snow survey on Friday - less than 40% of average, the lowest peak accumulation in seven years - confirms winter as a disappointment, the result of a record dry start to 2022."

"This week, Shasta Lake, the state’s biggest reservoir, stood at 38% capacity, less than half of where it typically stands at this point in the year. Lake Oroville, the second largest, was 47% full, about two-thirds of what it usually holds.

California’s roughly 150 biggest reservoirs were cumulatively at 69% capacity, according to the Department of Water Resources."

[509]

Don't worry there is a Democrat in the White House.

In 2000, President Clinton suspended the Endangered Species Act when it came to saving the Pacific Salmon and Steelhead runs in order to have Northwest dams send electricity to California.

However, this time.....will you folks in California turn off the lights at night?? Spend some effort to conserve electricity so the Pacific Salmon and Steelhead populations do NOT follow the Spotted Owl into extinction??

It really did make people in eastern Washington madder than a wet hen to watch our endangered fish disappear while folks in California "kept the lights on....killing salmon.".

[GraniteStater]

This is getting much worse again:


https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Curre...onitor.aspx?CA

https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/produc...ing/addpcp.gif

Click soil moisture anomaly (daily):

https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/produc.../Soilmst.shtml

[movedintime]

No worries about drought. As long as they keep building houses, and golf courses, all the drought talk is just for headlines.
Keep the worriers worrying

[509]

Originally Posted by movedintime

No worries about drought. As long as they keep building houses, and golf courses, all the drought talk is just for headlines.
Keep the worriers worrying

Mother Nature doesn't care about houses and golf courses.

Developers, politicians, journalists and Federal judges has NO background in climate science.

Read this book....merely a climate history of California and the west over the past 10,000. We go back to a "normal" climate in California and those golf courses will be in big trouble.

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...-without-water

[CA4Now]

Millions of Southern California residents are bracing for less water and many brown lawns as drought and climate change leave a large swath of the region with a growing water shortage.

In a remarkable indication of drought severity, officials with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California have declared a first-of-its-kind action limiting outdoor water use to one day a week for nearly 6 million residents.

Southern California ‘cannot afford green lawns’ as drought forces unprecedented water cuts:
https://www.latimes.com/environment/...t-restrictions

[Racer46]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

Millions of Southern California residents are bracing for less water and many brown lawns as drought and climate change leave a large swath of the region with a growing water shortage.

In a remarkable indication of drought severity, officials with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California have declared a first-of-its-kind action limiting outdoor water use to one day a week for nearly 6 million residents.

Southern California ‘cannot afford green lawns’ as drought forces unprecedented water cuts:
https://www.latimes.com/environment/...t-restrictions

Probably will not apply to the homes of the wealthy.

[citizensadvocate]

Originally Posted by HereOnMars

They allow it because almonds produce 7.8 billion dollars in revenue for the state. Many growers (not just almonds) in the state are changing their watering methods. Drip systems are becoming a more popular choice rather than flooding the fields as they've done in the past. And believe it or not, drip systems work.

All about money just like how the IOC insist on countries hosting olympics despite everything else being locked down during this unprecedented pandemic.


I always cringe at why building so many more luxury million dollar homes and apartments. Some people defend the housing quota saying that there will be more homeless people if they don't keep pouring water to build new homes. But these homes are not anything anyone that is close to experiencing homelessness would afford to live in. But for tycoons building or being hired in California. Unless such "homeless" are living in their Mercedes Benzes, Cadillacs, BMWs, or Tiffin Allegro motorhomes after being hired for a six figure income job in CA. To reduce population move the jobs away to areas that are more sustainable and the population will follow as they need the money to live.