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Mega-Drought Rocks California

AND THE WORST COULD BE YET TO COME …  By FITSNEWS  ||  California is in the third year of a mega-drought that has left 82 percent of the state facing the most extreme dry conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.  The state’s major reservoirs are at less than 50 percent capacity,…

AND THE WORST COULD BE YET TO COME … 

By FITSNEWS  ||  California is in the third year of a mega-drought that has left 82 percent of the state facing the most extreme dry conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.  The state’s major reservoirs are at less than 50 percent capacity,  and downtown Los Angeles is drier than it’s been since records first started being kept in 1877.

Worst of all?  There doesn’t seem to be any relief in sight anytime soon … as the extreme dry conditions are likely to continue into 2015.

The drought is hurting California farmers and driving up food prices.  Wells are running dry.  Certain communities have less than a month of water remaining – and this is after statewide water regulations have been in place for months.

Researchers say the drought has already caused the “greatest absolute reduction in water availability for California agriculture ever seen.”

Wanna see the frightening evolution of this drought?  Here’s a progression of 196 maps published by The Los Angeles Times.

Then there’s this progression of satellite images released by NASA …

(Click to play)

california-drying

(Pic: NASA)

Wow …

What’s especially troubling about the NASA photos?  They show the depletion of the state’s groundwater supply – which is being increasingly tapped by farmers to compensate for the ongoing decline in surface water.

According to a recently published UC Davis study, that may be good in the short-term – but it’s going to hurt the state’s ability to withstand future droughts (as groundwater isn’t as quickly or easily replenished as surface water).

For those of you keeping score at home, the drought has already cost the California economy $2.2 billion this year.

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48 comments

Cheap government water October 6, 2014 at 9:32 pm

A perfect example of what happens to supply when there are price distortions in its market due to government interference.

Water should have been far more expensive for a long time in much of California.

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FastEddy23 October 6, 2014 at 10:15 pm

Actually, you are correct about the g’ment manipulation of water markets, supply and demand … Driven by misguided central planning and political expediencies and greed, the taxsuckers

“It’s Chinatown, Jake … “

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euwe max October 7, 2014 at 6:04 am

The answer to everything is to make the rich richer… oh, and more guns.

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Cheap government water October 7, 2014 at 1:20 pm

Making them poor isn’t going to help. I prefer a system which uplifts the poor, rather than stamping down the rich.

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euwe max October 7, 2014 at 1:50 pm

Stamping down the rich suits me just fine.

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Egalitarian October 7, 2014 at 2:15 pm

Degradation has worked so well in history, how?

euwe max October 7, 2014 at 2:36 pm

Tzars, kings, and dictators… you like that shit, bitch?

Cheap government water October 7, 2014 at 4:04 pm

Btw, that wasn’t me(Egalitarian)….I think he was trying to “help”.

Anyway, you’ll never get the boot on the rich short of a blood revolution, and then pretty much everyone loses.

You’re asking corrupt pols to put said boot on their patrons…never gonna happen.

All that’s aside “who” should be ruling “us”, the common man…I’d prefer no one personally.

euwe max October 7, 2014 at 4:48 pm

I’m ready to staff the re-education camps.

euwe max October 7, 2014 at 6:43 pm

The more money you have – the more power you have. Power is good for only one thing – to rule.

Cheap government water October 7, 2014 at 8:39 pm

Oh come on now. We all need money, it’s not just “good for only one thing”…lol…hell, it’s money…it’s good for a lot of things.

Girl Scout cookies, blow, hookers dressed like Girl Scouts, etc. et al

Short of a rich person buying an army to fuck us all up and make us slaves, which seems doubtful to me for a variety of reaons, money is generally a good thing, as long as it’s not used to hurt other people.

Tom October 7, 2014 at 11:20 am

Yes we should sell the Nations water supply to the highest bidder. Corporate American can solve the problem, and they can be trusted to do it fairly.

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Cheap government water October 7, 2014 at 1:23 pm

“Yes we should sell the Nations water supply to the highest bidder. ”

Yes, that’s just how it work in Walmart with TV’s. You go in, and bid with other customers for TV’s.

Moron.

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euwe max October 7, 2014 at 6:45 pm

You can’t drink a TV.

Moron.

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Cheap government water October 7, 2014 at 8:40 pm

lol, nice non sequitur.

Moron.

:)

TontoBubbaGoldstein October 6, 2014 at 9:49 pm

MEGA-DROUGHT ROCKS CALIFORNIA

TBG saw them at Myskyn’s in the early ’90s before they hit the bigtime.

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euwe max October 7, 2014 at 5:41 am Reply
just another guy October 6, 2014 at 9:59 pm

Will, so now you follow the weather I guess. Let me let you in on a little secret, Cali if going to get rain this winter. They will be fine. Just like their was a drought in the South West that is no more. That is the amazing thing about weather, if you don;t like it, just wait and it will change.

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FastEddy23 October 6, 2014 at 10:08 pm

Co-inky-dinkily our US Air Force has been spraying chemicals in massive amounts up and down the Pacific coast for just about three years. The military air refueling tankers are doing this as some misguided attempt to retard global warming as asked for by the Taxifornia congress critters … and to increase aviator stick time so they can get aviation jobs after their tours … and to get airframe time on the 400 or so military tankers so the can be upgraded by Boeing, et al, at taxpayer expense.

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Beartrkkr October 6, 2014 at 10:13 pm

You tinfoil hat awaits, sir…

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FastEddy23 October 9, 2014 at 11:41 am

Your tin foil hat won’t work unless it is grounded.

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TontoBubbaGoldstein October 6, 2014 at 10:27 pm

IMO … There may be a connection

JFK was planning to defund the nascent Chemtrails program….

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Black Helicopters following me October 6, 2014 at 10:43 pm

lol…don’t encourage him.

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euwe max October 7, 2014 at 5:45 am Reply
idcydm October 6, 2014 at 10:15 pm

California has been in a drought forever, if not for the diversion of water it would be a waist land.

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Rocky October 6, 2014 at 11:26 pm

I thought it was God punishing the queers.

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euwe max October 7, 2014 at 5:49 am

Montezuma’s revenge.

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nitrat October 7, 2014 at 8:33 am

What’s God punishing Texas for?
Massive fires a few years ago (with Gov. Oops demanding more and more federal help)…
Symptomatic Ebola on the streets of Dallas because the doctors at a Christian hospital can’t/won’t read the charts when they are pretending to diagnose patients (Gov. Oops blaming the feds for the failures at the Christian hospital…
Is God trying to teach Texas some humility…and, they just won’t learn.

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Rocky October 7, 2014 at 8:47 am

That’s a good point. I recall from that old sitcom Soap that they don’t have queers in Texas.

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Jackie Chiles October 7, 2014 at 8:53 am

lol. And Baptist Hospital in Downtown columbia is a “christian hospital” too I suppose?

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Gunnery Sergeant Hartman October 7, 2014 at 10:00 pm

“What’s God punishing Texas for?”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyFSdj1J5Vw

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Thomas October 7, 2014 at 4:58 am

This drought could be the beginning of a megadrought. They can last 10-20 years or more. Now from my intuition: with the ground water disappearing, a major 7.0 earthquake is imminent. It happened during the last severe drought in 1857(7.9), 1872(7.3), and 1892(7.2). You heard here first.

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FastEddy23 October 7, 2014 at 10:05 am

… add in the Coming Ice Age, the rising (or sinking) ocean levels, the incoming astroids, the change of sides in DC …

Fear mongering is so easy now, with the Internet and blogs.

BTW: NASA reports yesterday that the oceans are NOT being influenced by the Global Worms. … “Never in History has raising taxes changed the weather.”

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Thomas October 7, 2014 at 10:39 pm

The drought severity graphic coincides with 7.0 earthquakes. Since all we have to go on is tree rings to measure ancient droughts and living fucking memory for 150 year old earthquakes, I am closer to predicting this will happen than you are making it to the bathroom to puke up that swill you call beer.

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SCBlues October 7, 2014 at 5:00 am

California – fondly called Shake & Bake by the folks who live there – leads the nation – things happen there first and then fan out across the nation.

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euwe max October 7, 2014 at 6:03 am

Is the stage set for abortion showdown?

Conservatives, including those on the Fifth Circuit, are increasingly confident that Anthony Kennedy’s position on abortion has evolved enough that he’s finally on board with a substantial rewrite of current abortion law.

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FastEddy23 October 7, 2014 at 10:09 am

?? … and which law is that? Which state(s)?

I don’t care as long as it doesn’t raise my taxes … and keep your g’ment hands outta my wife’s pants.

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FastEddy23 October 7, 2014 at 10:09 am

?? … and which law is that? Which state(s)?

I don’t care as long as it doesn’t raise my taxes … and keep your g’ment hands outta my wife’s pants.

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Squishy123 October 7, 2014 at 8:43 am

Nobody cares about that, what are the Kardashians doing today?

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Jackie Chiles October 7, 2014 at 8:55 am

Since Climate change will cause extreme droughts in Texas and california, while increasing rain in the Southeast, and since nobody wants to live in the NE anymore, there’s a strong chance that South Carolina will be booming the next 100 years-as long as we keep driving our cars and running our A/C as much as we can.

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Global Warming for the win! October 7, 2014 at 3:33 pm

Increase the logging too and ramp up the cow farts!

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keg of Water October 7, 2014 at 9:19 am

The brewers are moving to the South slope in droves. By their own admission, they are being forced to limit water withdrawals and it threatens their very existence in Ca.. Craft brewers are a creative way to obtain water withdrawal rights and in 20 years you will have to purchase drinking water in containers – it will be privatized. Unless, that is, you want your drinking water to taste like the drinking water in places like Clemson, Pendleton and Anderson. Craft brewers will be bought by the likes of InBev who will control drinking water.

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keg of Water October 7, 2014 at 9:24 am

Frost here = peach prices rally.
Drought California = citrus, grapes, wine rally
Drought Midwest, Southeast = beef prices rally
Flooding coastal states = shrimp prices rally

I hear they are out there but I’ve never met a poor farmer.

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Philip Branton October 7, 2014 at 10:41 am

LOL……

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/islamic-state-jihadists-are-using-water-as-a-weapon-in-iraq/2014/10/06/aead6792-79ec-4c7c-8f2f-fd7b95765d09_story.html

….looks like WIl Folks is using a drought story to “whiff time for SCOTT, GRAHAM and CLYBURN”…..!!

Folks is using a water story as a weapon on his actual READERS……and they don’t even realize it………..

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E Norma Scok October 7, 2014 at 2:30 pm

Drought has cost 2.2 billion? How much are mass desalinization plants like is used in Tampa, Fl?

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Third World October 7, 2014 at 5:24 pm

South Carolina has no comprehensive water resources planning or even deep knowledge in that area, not even a plan to remedy either, beyond in name only. In name only it has some dibs and dabs, but even there not much.

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Soft Sigh from Hell October 7, 2014 at 5:32 pm Reply

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