build more reservoirs and make underground reservoirs as well. Japan was able to save billions by constructing a huge underground reservoir that saves water and controls flooding
Californians voted for that in 2014 and not one shovel has been turned to make that happen. Politician don't want to solve problems when they can convince you to keep sending them money for reelection and using those same problems as their cash cow. And I'll bet you $1 Newcum and the environmental wackos will dump all this water into the ocean and we'll be back in drought by summer 2025.
There's also the matter of there being 39 million people in CA today, while during the severe 1970s drought it was only 22 million. The impact of droughts has increased with the population since the reservoir capacity buildout hasn't kept pace.
If water is going over the spillway the best thing you can do is water your lawn or garden or even a patch of dirt as much as possible to get that water into the ground. When the water is no longer overflowing the spillway then we need to exercise water conservation.
We are asked to conserve, and we should, but at the same time, we need infrastructural changes that when we are gifted with rain, we can conserve even better.
Many many years ago, LADWP asked people to conserve water. After a year, they told customers they have to raise rates because people conserve water too well and they couldn’t make enough money.
Always passed by this area and always got sad at how low it kept getting as it got lower and lower every year regulation is key and citizens in California or any other state should be aware that just because we had a good year so far does not mean we get to be wasteful.
Why is Hollister and Gilroy on the map correct but they have Los Banos at the bottom tip of the map when Los Banos is to the right about 15 miles east.
So it was full just 4 years ago. The title almost makes it seem like it's been 12 years since it was last full. Tricky phrasing of the headline there, but I see that it's been full three times over the past 12 yrs. That or I need more coffee. I guess it sounds more sensational to say it how you did rather than it was full 4 years ago. Still, I'm happy to see it's full again!
This is just one year, come back when it has been 5 years +. You are thinking very, very short term. You have to conserve water, and put what was taken out of ground water and put it back in. That is the only way to win this, and no more golf courses that are green all the time.
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The endless public messaging to “conserve more” is misplaced at best; consider the reality: “Statewide, average water use is roughly 50% environmental, 40% agricultural, and 10% urban” Source: PPIC How about investing once again in new multipurpose reservoirs, better groundwater recharge and sustainable water desalination projects and stop guilting the public.
Or maybe there could be restoration project for Tulare lake. How hard/expensive it would be for California to buy all concerned lands and then build canals that would bring excess water (during wet periods) to that lake from other watersheds?
Suggest reading about the Sites Reservoir Project which is a proposed a surface storage project. The Sites Reservoir Project would be a 1.5 million acre-foot offstream surface storage reservoir located in the Sacramento Valley west of the town of Maxwell. In planning phase.
Just a fraction of our water gets used by Silicon Valley. Most of the water is diverted to huge corporate farms in the Central Valley that make Billion$ by shipping products off to China and Europe.
