{"id":519,"date":"2014-10-24T00:29:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T00:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=519"},"modified":"2014-10-24T00:29:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T00:29:55","slug":"its-very-extreme-drought-drug-cartels-drain-californias-aquifers-at-record-rate-zero-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"“It’s Very Extreme” – Drought & Drug Cartels Drain California’s Aquifers At Record Rate | Zero Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"

“It’s Very Extreme” – Drought & Drug Cartels Drain California’s Aquifers At Record Rate | Zero Hedge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“If there’s no water for people to live, and you don\u2019t have the basic necessities of life, your population is going to leave,”<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0warns the emergency services manager of one California town, warning that as the drought continues (and is not set to ease anytime soon),\u00a0“you could see the economy of this area just decimated.”<\/strong>\u00a0But as farmers face the catastrophe with “water levels dropping at an incredibly rapid rate in some places – like 100 ft a year – 10 times expected,” there is another drain on the dry state’s water sources.\u00a0As The FT reports<\/a>,\u00a0“Marijuana cultivation is the biggest drought-related crime we\u2019re facing right now,” with up to 80 million gallons of water per day stolen by heavily armed marijuana cartels<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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“It’s Very Extreme” – Drought & Drug Cartels Drain California’s Aquifers At Record Rate | Zero Hedge. “If there’s no water for people to live, and you don\u2019t have the basic necessities of life, your population is going to leave,”\u00a0warns the emergency services manager of one California town, warning that as the drought continues (and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[101,220,834,866,867],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-california","tag-drought","tag-us","tag-water","tag-water-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}