I've lived in California for 45 years. We've been told we're in perpetual drought every single one of those years. Even after a year or two of massive rains, they're always beating the drum that one or two years doesn't make up for x amount of years of drought. Water is used for political leverage both inside and outside the state. The politicians have no desire to build additional dams or reservoirs, despite increased development and farming.
I’ve lived here for 23 years and I’ve been saying the same thing for 15 years, build some more goddamn reservoirs so when we have years like this we can capture the water, but no sadly they would rather beat that drum week after week after week after week after week after week we’re in a drought we’re in a drought we have to raise your water bill! It’s all about the money and power!
Logic & Reason are a antiquated white European thought process that has no place in today’s progressive society.. in other words they didn’t do squat .
A miracle for sure. I am born and raised in CA and I have never seen so much rain in all my time living here. Boy, we needed it. I just hope Utah, Arizona, Nevada and Colorado also got a lot of rain this year too.
Here in Colorado we are extremely dry still. One of the driest winters I've ever seen. Last spring was decently wet, but it's been abnormally dry since. Glad to see California get some much needed moisture!
Unfortunately California's refusal to install adequate water control systems to retain water due to fish migration will put the state back into a water shortage situation before the end of the year.
Israel and I think Saudi Arabia have developed desalination infrastructure to create an abundance of water. California has no excuse not to do so also.
@@kellyinfanger9192 I can’t wait to see these in large use, then the subsequent “holy shit, who would’ve thought that removing water from the sea and leaving behind a concentrated salt brine would destroy local sea life?!?!?!” Just like the offshore wind farms that are killing whales and destroying fish breeding grounds.
Great news. We had severe droughts in GA a few years back and the "experts" kept telling us it would take dozens of years of above average rainfall to fill the lakes up. One good rainy season did the trick although we were nowhere near as bad as out west.
The federal govts alleged Xperts obviously use junk science for their predictions AND now that we know that for sure, that there's a lot of MANMADE weather manipulation going on - that changes EVERYTHING.... Because we aren't sure how much is natural and how much isn't‼️
@@kckcmctcrc Hey you guys reservoirs are not the measuring stick of water supply it's the water table. There are huge undergrpund lakes and rivers that are so huge if you look at the people who go cave the diving you can see how much water there is. It's all media hype on global warming and climate change to put fear in your heart. I live in l.a. and our water table is on average 9000 feet deep. Go to a local rock quarry the water you see on the bottom this is your water table. Before a heavy rain take pics and after the rain take another pic then look at the difference. They dig so deep for rock they hit the water table and the water table goes for miles in all directions underground.
It will fill more as snow melts but this was last week and since last night California is getting another dose of snow and this time it’s snowing more than last week.
It makes one wonder how much water ran out to the ocean instead of being captured in a reservoirs that could have been built all over the state instead of building a high speed train to nowhere.
Lol what’s beautiful about Americans is they speak about things when they can’t even manage their life and live pay to paycheck but somehow can run a state? Judge others? It’s definition of how dumb as fuck some people can be
@@asu5632 Even more beautiful is people posting comments like they actually know who they are talking about and judging them as they do. looks like the pot calling the kettle black as I read it! Dumb as fuck? sounds about right!
Funnily enough, most of the water is captured not by reservoirs, but by the land itself. Like a sponge. The drier, the harder it is to absorb it. Reservoirs are relatively negligeable compared to it. For the rest, the high speed train is a smart idea. It's just way more symbolic of the utter incapacity of the US to build any modern infrastructure. Republicans don't face this problem because they haven't done anything for the US infrastructure over the last 4 decades.
I've lived in Cali all my life. Oroville is 20 mins from where I live. They always scream "we're in a drought!!" every single year, yet no water retainment infrastructure is ever built. Lake Oroville had to actually RELEASE water about a week ago due to all of this precipitation.
@@max7768 You're right about that, but in fact the citizens of states like Utah and Arizona consume more water per capita than the national average, and the national average in the US is already much higher than every other developped nations. If they were more reasonable in their water consumption, those cities wouldn't be running out of water even with their high population.
It also has a lot to do with snowfall in the mountains. California had a few bad winters with above average temps from elneno and now it’s back to normal and wow
Also keep in mind that the 1st rains we had the Ca government REQUIRED almost all that water flowed out to the ocean- 95% was not captured- just like the last heavy rains in 2017. And that water release let the government beat the drum "drought drought drought" up to today. Have lived in Kaliunicornia since the 1970s- the state refusing to address the water problem in any way is frustrating (outside use less water while the population doubled). If it wasn't for my wife would have mived away long ago.
holmes, it's the Army Corps of engineers that holds sway over that. Perhaps if you knew the slightest thing about it, but nah, you'd rather just keep whining and blame everything on liberals
@@asbestosfiber Should we also blame the Army Corps of Engineers for the lack of affordable housing, the high crime, the widespread poverty, the terrible traffic, the high taxes, the high energy prices, the poor public schools, the inadequate public transportation infrastructure and the 65,000+ homeless people in Los Angeles? Maybe it is time to ask more of your leadership.
@@ifmbm332b why would you think the ACOE has anything to do with any of those? Or that they are “leadership”. They are responsible for waterway and wetlands management. Your random fact-free rants just make you a clueless whiner.
@@asbestosfiber saw it on the news. Also, who said anything about liberals? Both Republican & Democrat administrations have ignored this problem. Or maybe you are saying liberals are usually the problem?
Thank you lord for making 99.4% of our water undrinkable Thank you lord for making 75% of the land unfarmable Thank you lord for creating a heat and light source that can cause cancer Thank you lord for creating cancer.
@@markgrove2030 what was your 'sin'? Eating shellfish? Are you guys going to re enact the torture/murder/zombie scene of Easter? Imagine such pagan rituals are actually normalized in this country. So bizarre.
I love how they like oh now we have water let’s go back to the way we’re using it! BAD IDEA, cuz we just gonna end back up where we were. The tight restrictions on water usage need to continue for all SW states.
Looking at the edges of that reservoir, it sure looks like it will be full once the snow melt fills it up. Good news there. All that snow packed up in the mountains is our true reservoir.
It might seem odd to you, but helping provide the conditions for tiny rare animals to survive helps us learn the skills we need to enable us all to survive. If we simply see the earth as cropland for human food, we ignore the other critical pieces of the environment necessary for the survival of ALL of us, humans and snail darters alike. Maybe we need to realize there might be too many of us humans, all demanding a big piece of pie, and maybe if we destroy the habitats and living conditions needed for "insignificant" fellow creatures we are also destroying our own sustaining environment.
@@stevepierce6467 the delta smelt in not a indigenous fish to California it needs to die. It has knocked the ecosystem off balance and we have lost other species of fish because of it.
@@stumblingmumbler Not any one single species; we need to change our way of looking at the earth in such a way as to see what is needed for the survival of all species, because what is bad for the least of the beings among us is also bad for us in the long run
Ca is almost completely out of the drought. This doesn't take into consideration the 20 to 30ft of fresh snowpack on the mountains that will melt and continue to fill the lakes.
The mismanagement of our water management system and reservoirs have cause Cali to be in a water issue for a while. This can be prevented but politicians seem to like have the drought boogey man around to use as a political tool.
Exactly, I’m not even from Cali and I just kept staring at the clip trying to make it Oroville and my brain kept going no… no… no… Isn’t this news station based in that viewing area lmao
Golf resorts need to be severely limited. It's crazy to see a golf field out in the middle of a desert and you see such a green field. They tell people to conserve water but golf fields are still getting watered and maintained. There should be a law to make all golf fields synthetic
We here in California will always be in a state of drought because a large portion of the state is desert, and we have over-built everywhere. Too many houses, too many roads, too many commercial and industrial buildings. I know we need commerce and industry to "survive and prosper" but we also need to be cautious with our expansions or things are only going to continue getting worse.
Yes and that’s the part people in other states don’t get, our state is so diverse and beautiful we have much to protect. I keep hearing about affordable housing they would need to build 100k homes a year to keep up… where are we going to put them on top of all the others… we would look like NY in no time. I think there’s going to be a point where we choose to house everyone who wants to live here or people will just get priced out. I keep telling people nobody is owed space here nobody deserves to live here, it’s going to be an affordability issue. The middle class has left Downtown Los Angeles has been over run by the countries homeless who come for the weather and soooo many illegals from all over the world, it looks like a third world country and those are the people screaming and demanding affordable housing and 15 an hour… it’s ridiculous
They should build more reservoirs in the desert to send the water there by pipe or aqueducts instead of spending billion dollars to build highspeed railway which never complete.
I live in the valley. Lake kaweah is probably going to spill over with how much water is coming in, they cannot let enough out. This is where building more reservoirs would have came in handy, but California decides to dump our water rather than store it, thanks to our politicians. If you control water, you control everything -Rango
And the sun will cause ocean water to evaporate, and that water will be dumped back into the lake, and on and on it'll go. Earth is blessed with such processes. Of course the media will sensationalize and fear monger regardless.
last year CA got that hurricane to start it off. it dumped lots of water in southern CA it ran off kinda quick but it gave it the state a break. but the year of 2023 sure turn out pretty good and 2024 kept it going hopefully the state has another decent season.
@Winston The German Shorthair Pointer uh huh so when I said they were trying to keep some capacity in the lake how does that differ from flood mitigation in your peanut brain?
How's that ? People going to drink more water or take more baths ? Sit under a free running hose in the yard, Oh I know, rinsing off all the scum on the sidewalk from all the dirty drug addicted derelict crazies without homes.
I just arrived for a visit. I usually came when the trees were green and the ground covered in brown. Now, thanks to the rains, EVERYTHING is green. It looks great.
She does say above average, not of historical average. Besides, wouldn't average and historical average be the exact same thing? Yes, yes it would. Regardless, the question still stands. The water in the lake has more than doubled? I don't think so. Inquiring minds want to know.
@@OldAndGettingOlder Yes, the amount of water in the lake has doubled over the last year. 1.6 million acre feet one year ago, 2.7 million acre feet now. It is at 116% of the historical average. That is completely unrelated to the level rise over the past year. "Historical average" is used to denote the average level across all past measurements. "Average" is less precise; over what period? 1 year? 5 years? Since the current drought began? I'm sure she meant historical average.
@@MisterLumpkin , okay. I do agree that average does need qualification. Over the last year or two, then maybe it has doubled. But over the historical (or lifetime average) doubling seems a bit much. If it has doubled then so be it. It's doubled.
The photo is deceptive as they fill up in the summer when photo was taken and are low in winter after farmers used all the water. You can see snow on the low picture on mountains. If you live by a reservoir you understand the fluctuations aren’t just weather.
Should still be keeping water on the look out. You never know if it will just disapear again like it did before. My opinion would be to keep water limits where they are until they FOR SURE know that they can start using more water again.
Water for what though? I dont think the water from the la River would be adequate for anything, let alone farming. That water is nasty af. They won't even allow people to swim in it
I am not a weather man, a scientist, or a climatologist, but here's one thing that I know for sure. The meteoric increases in my water bill that the water department has justified due to a severe water shortage will NEVER GO DOWN AS A RESULT OF A SURPLUS OF WATER!!!! Ain't out of control government GREAT!
Naw, excavating the bottom of dry reservoirs is about as ineffcient a practice imaginable. They are far too big to justify ever trying to dig them deeper. So just cause YOU thought of the idea doesn't make it practical!
Me, watching on March 11 - yeah that sucked until an atmospheric river just dumped so much rain on us, they're talking about using the spillway to keep the water level manageable
You in the south have no place to be smug about anything when you compare yourself to California. You don't have have the population unless you count up several states and you don't grow anywhere near the produce that California does. California has the fifth largest economy in the world after all. The southern states need to stop oppressing women by their extreme anti-abortion laws which only makes pregnancy more hazardous for women. And southern states need to start instituting common sense law safety laws like registration. More people are killed in red states precisely of their lax gun laws.
This is a good thing people don’t let the media make you think that it’s bad this is great that this is happening to California right now would you rather have water or no water think about it
Army Corps of Engineers and local management are on it from what I hear. They already have the run off going at a pace. Some minor flooding of some roads. It will take some time for it get absorbed into the water table.
Why would people talk about a historic drought after the record breaking winter when no such drought has occured?? Yet! Drought takes time to develop after all.
Every canyon and valley has been dammed and reservoirs created. There isn't room for anymore dams. Over population is and has always been the problem just like everywhere else on earth with few exceptions.
It’s not full. It’s 76% full, which is 115% of the long-term average of 66% full on this date. It should fill this summer, as snow melts, for the first time since 2019, and will then be at the tree line.
Reservoirs are typically built in canyons where one dam can trap water. The Bureau of Reclamation has built a dam at every feasible site over the past 100 years. California has over 1000 reservoirs already. If anything, recharge sites need to be built, not more dams and reservoirs.
To everyone whining "Why does the state keep saying we're still in a drought? Lookit all this rain! ThE sTatE is LyiNG tO Us!" Rainfall doesn't count. Full reservoirs don't count. What counts is groundwater, the aquifers below our feet. Massive amounts of rain, all at once, *does not replenish the aquifers.* We could build 100 more reservoirs and still have to release water when they're full. Long slow rain is what we need, to soak into the ground and replenish the aquifers.
Everyones complaining about California not building dams. California didnt build them in the first place, the Federal core of engineers did with federal funds alocated by congress.
