Economic Impact Of The Wildfire Problem

water, the golf courses do not exist. Another economic impact is the fact that water shortage is causing environmental problems. One area of huge concern is the wildfire problem. It is not cheap to fight a wildfire, not to mention all the damage that it does to the environment. It costs millions of dollars to fight the wildfire. You can’t really put a price on the damage that it does to the environment. It takes a toll on the environment. Another economic impact of the water shortage is there are more poor communities. The people who usually work in the fields have little to no money. Some of these people are even homeless. They are being forced to build homes out of cardboard. Even when there is work in the fields, some these small communities in the American Southwest have some of the lowest average incomes. An example would be in the city of Mendota, California. The unemployment rate in Mendota is around 40%. Jobs in and around Mendota are some of the lowest paying the United States. A police officer in the city of Mendota only gets paid $17 an hour. These officers are putting their lives on the line every day and they get paid $17 an hour. That is crazy to think about. On
Using my example of the police department in the city of Mendota, California, they have seen crime rate go up. From the video I watched, drug usage rates have sky rocketed since the water shortage became a problem. People in the city don’t have anywhere to work, which leads to them having more time on their hands. During that free time, they have turned to drinking and doing methamphetamine. The usage rate of methamphetamine has sky rocketed over the past couple years in Mendota. The police officers of Mendota say there is a correlation between the water shortage problem and the crime rates soaring. Now that I have covered all the problems that water shortage is causing, let’s move into what is being done to fix the problem right