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Anyway, I doubt if there is any completely safe place to live, but I just wondered why people would move to a place where the second most important ingredient to life (the first being air) might be in very short supply.
Because by the time it becomes a life-threatening crisis for me personally, I'll be dead.
We lived in Phoenix-area for 25+ years and wouldn't hesitate to move back.
I don't think this map is particularly accurate, at least for the drought portion of it anyway. It shows most of CA as low to moderate risk for drought. CA has been in a state of drought for many years and it's only getting worse. And it shows the southeast as the highest risk for drought, and yet we have rain every couple days all summer long, and sometimes rain in great abundance! I wonder if they know what a drought is?
Thanks for all the answers so far -- very informative!
However, just to ask this -- I remember about 20 years ago or so (I might be wrong about the timeframe) that in SoCal, people were REALLY being asked to conserve water -- for example, water in restaurants only upon request and regarding toilet use, "if it's yellow, let it mellow, and if it's brown, flush it down". I just would have thought that if there was a "crisis" 20 years ago, it would not be any better today.
You may hear about conserve water, conserve electricity ad campaigns, but when you actually live here, none of that affects your daily life. I still water my lawn and my water bill is no higher. Turn on the faucet and seemingly unlimited water still comes out. The drought affects the farmers but it's also the farmers using most of the water.
I don't think this map is particularly accurate, at least for the drought portion of it anyway. It shows most of CA as low to moderate risk for drought. CA has been in a state of drought for many years and it's only getting worse. And it shows the southeast as the highest risk for drought, and yet we have rain every couple days all summer long, and sometimes rain in great abundance! I wonder if they know what a drought is?
Well that’s simply not true. This is the first time a drought has been declared in 5 years. There’s only been a handful of significant years going back to the mid 70’s when they really started tracking it, and paleoclimate records over the last thousand years show it’s constantly fluctuating.
You may hear about conserve water, conserve electricity ad campaigns, but when you actually live here, none of that affects your daily life. I still water my lawn and my water bill is no higher. Turn on the faucet and seemingly unlimited water still comes out. The drought affects the farmers but it's also the farmers using most of the water.
Exactly. People wised up and realized they don’t need to keep pee/poo sitting in the toilet when the farmers use the same amount to grow 1 nut. Small independent farmers feel the crunch, but the large corporate farms that now own the Central Valley can keep using all the water to their heart’s content.
You also have to remember that water use is almost exclusively used for agriculture and to a lesser extent, industrial, in western states. Very little, even in huge population states like California is it used for residential, typically around 5% of the total consumption. So even a slight shift of usage to less water intensive crops for one thing would make a huge difference to the availability of water, especially treated, to a state’s viability of providing enough for its citizens in a balanced, well thought out distribution system.
This is my perception (as a person now living in the Southwest).
And now time for howaboutit
how about tornadoes, earthquakes, Lyme disease, crime, right-wing terrorism, racism....
The reason houses are so expensive in southern Calif. is because the Democrats make it so expensive and difficult to build houses.
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over the looting and the arson any day.
