What are the solutions that the California
What are the solutions that the California
According to “Drought Frames Economic Divide of Californians” by Adam Nagourney and Jack Healy, California’s drought is causing a financial obstacle. Water usage needs to be limited. Therefore water prices are raised to create an incentive to save water for necessities. They point out that the financial issue evolves into a moral issue between the classes.…
Do Californians consider it a serious issue? How much do we really care? How do different age groups view the drought? Are there differences in level of concern among generations? Do people in different areas of California have different perspectives on the drought? (NorCal vs. SoCal) How do people who live near water sources view the drought vs people who are more removed from it? Water use/how is water seen as a resource in other cultures (developing nations, etc)?…
If you’ve watched the news anytime in the past 4 years, you’d know that California is currently in an historic drought situation. So you would know that the people in California have been dealing with drought conditions for a while now, and they are not the most ideal. It’s sunny out, but you can’t necessarily fill your pool. You have to limit your showers, and you have to take a pause for watering your plants. What about the rest of nature? Are they getting the water needed for them to survive?…
The population has increased tremendously since the 1930s and that imposes new threats if a major drought were to happen again. One way to prepare for something like this is to follow a ten-step guide produced by The National Drought Mitigation Center. A disaster of this magnitude is hard to prepare for. However, at this, time thirty eight states have some sort of drought plan in place to ensure this natural or man-made disaster doesn't happen again.…
Over the past few centuries California’s weather has not properly represented itself. Instead, California has proven to be one of the best places to live in the world, one of the few places where you can go to the snow and to the beach in the same day. Despite the states many attractions, Mike Davis believes that Southern California’s environment is going to be back on track with its original patterns. This consist of long droughts lasting for hundreds of years, causing plant life and soil to die. This is than followed by large amounts of rain that the ground can no longer retain, resulting in flooding…
The drought has been the worst drought recorded as the biggest drought in history for California that is.If you made it to this point here is more info on this big topic of regulating water for California and not regulating groundwater for California.…
In the Mojave desert, this is absolutely the situation. Researchers believe climate change was the number one reason for the drought in California, which happened to hit the Mojave Desert quite rough. It makes complete sense, warmer temperatures means dried up water supplies. Climate change is really the only logical way to explain California’s serious drought that finally ended after more than a decade. Nevertheless, it is quite obvious why a lack of water supplies would do irreparable damage to a desert environment.…
Do you want to save water and money on your water bill? Have enough for you and your family? As you know the United States is in a big problem with the drought. Well without water the farmers will have trouble planting the fruit and vegetables. Which means the food prices will go up and you will have to earn more money they you already have to get food to provide for you and your family. There are some ways so you can save water and money and lower your water bill so it is a 3 way win for you, which is regulate the groundwater.…
The U.S. government quickly started the Drought Program and set it into effect in order to help those who had been through the horrible disaster. It included four separate points: “Providing emergency supplies, cash, livestock feed and transport to maintain the basic functioning of livelihoods and farms/ ranches. Establishing health care facilities and supplies to meet emergency medical needs. Establishing government-based markets for farm goods, higher tariffs, and loan funds for farm market maintenance and business rehabilitation, and providing the supplies, technology, and technical advice necessary to research, implement, and promote proper land management strategies” [National Drought Mitigation…
The California Gold Rush brought displeasure to our environment. Millions of years of beautiful Californian land has been destroyed in the aftermath in the search for precious gold. The greed got the best of many which left grief for Mother Nature.…
To this day, California has been in a drought. The governor, Jerry Brown is struggling to create policies to prevent people from using large amounts of water. He has made proposals to reduce the water use in California by building tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to increase the supply of water. One of the reasons California is in a drought is because of our history of dealing with the gold miners using hydraulic mining to mine gold, and damming the Tuolumne River to provide water for San Francisco. Although the use of of water has benefitted farmers and cities, it has not been in the best interest of the state because it has harmed the Native Americans and the environment.…
In the worst of times California’s climate is destructive to the well being of not only Californian’s quality of life, but the surrounding ecosystems. With unseasonably high temperatures presenting issues farther into the future, in “Adapting California's water management to climate change”, the authors Ellen Hanak and Jay Lund provide an overview of the effects California’s climate has during times of drought, and the complications it presents for the State's water management. Water management in the state oversees a plethora of concerns; properly planning, supply and delivery of water, quality assurance, addressing floods, the corresponding risks it presents, and the use of water as an energy source through hydropower. Larger governmental powers, like the State and Federal organizations, both have control over the above stated aspects of water management when dealing with California’s climate. The smaller, local, governmental bodies uphold the day to day operations of those systems. Best described by Hanak and Lund as “institutional diversity”, citing that the widespread sharing of responsibilities offers greater flexibility in response to unforeseen challenges each face, relying on the innovation of processes towards a wetter tomorrow. From the perspective of those in charge of the water management in the state,…
A lot of people haven’t took a shower in months because their is no water to use. People can’t shower and wash dishes because the farmers are using too much of the groundwater. I think California should make laws to control the groundwater usage.…
Since we know the water drought is a problem, we might ask how does or did it start? The California water drought started around January 2013 recording the driest winter in which has been recorded. There are many causes but one that stands out the most is the water vapor cycle. The water vapor is suppose to carry the winds from the Pacific Ocean into the U.S. west coast where California lies. Instead of going to california the water vapor split into two parts either the north or south of California. They split into two because of the high atmospheric pressures fromt the northwest coast of North America. All of this important because rain is the top contributor in…
The world is currently undergoing changes unlike ever recorded before in human history. Record breaking temperatures are occurring more frequently, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are at their highest rates since the Jurassic period, and a rapidly increasing population, fully reliant on our planets natural resources, are beginning to push the earth to its limit. On a local level, these environmental changes are having a significant impact on California’s environment. If this trend continues, California could experience devastating blows to its agriculture industry, a massive source of revenue. Perhaps the most important question to ask ourselves right now is; how can we reduce the impact that we have on California’s environment? So that we may…