Californians split on drought response
Frank Gehrke with the Department of Water Resources measures the water content of snow at Phillips Station earlier this year. Photo/LTN file
By Jeremy B. White, Sacramento Bee
Californians agree their state is parched, but they diverge by region on how supplies dried up and what should be done about the drought.
“There’s clearly a consensus that the state has a serious water shortage,” Field Poll director Mark DiCamillo said of a survey on the subject released Tuesday. “There, however, is no consensus to what got us into this situation.”
Most voters told the Field Poll the state is grappling with a serious water shortage, and nearly two-thirds described the shortfall as “extremely serious.” While recent rains have somewhat replenished snowpack and reservoirs, the current drought remains one of the state’s worst.
It’s obviously caused by Global Warming and the solution is more government regulation & higher taxation.
Now if only the state of California would have a population of 12,000,000 which is what the water system was designed for.
At least the drought will cut back the amount of dihydrogen monoxide that enters the lake. We all need to group together and petition the government to ban ALL DHMO! I’ve read that this chemical is measured at almost 1 million ppm in our lake alone. I was told that DHMO causes thousands of deaths yearly and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage to the environment. Ban all DHMO!
‘Now if only the state of California would have a population of 12,000,000 which is what the water system was designed for.’
So, the water system hasn’t been expanded at all?
Do tell.
Bitter. We used the money to build more prisons. Can we do anything about the lack of rain? Prevent evaporation in our canal/aqueduct systems, grow more drought resistant crops, use desalination or brown water to re-charge lost ground water. There are solutions out there.