{"id":67818,"date":"2024-05-02T18:34:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T23:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67818"},"modified":"2024-05-02T18:34:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T23:34:28","slug":"californias-perpetual-drought-is-manmade-and-intentional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67818","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s Perpetual Drought Is Manmade and Intentional"},"content":{"rendered":"

California\u2019s Perpetual Drought Is Manmade and Intentional<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) last week released its next five-year plan for the State Water Project\u2014Update 2023. After years of meetings, California\u2019s premier water agency has decided to focus on \u201cthree intersecting themes: addressing climate urgency, strengthening watershed resilience, and achieving equity in water management.\u201d<\/p>\n

Water supplies for California\u2019s 40 million people and the planet\u2019s most productive agriculture have third- to fifth-level priority.<\/p>\n

There is nothing new here, except to publicly admit to betraying the public trust. Really?<\/p>\n

Over several decades, the public has been deceived into voting for water bonds that have little new water in them\u2014phony promises to build new water storage and aqueducts. About 12 percent of bond funds are spent on new water storage. The rest of the bond funds have been squandered on scores of local and special-interest environmental projects, e.g., tearing down four Klamath-area dams\u2014killing fish to save them\u2014and opposing substantial new water projects, e.g., raising Shasta Dam and building Auburn Dam.<\/p>\n

Further, by California law, water must be equitably distributed, pumped \u201cequally\u201d\u2014half to human beings (if you count agriculture) and half to fish (the water-short Pacific Ocean, 187 quadrillion gallons). During the big rains of 2024, about 90 percent of the water was flushed to the Pacific through the gills of perhaps a half dozen delta smelt.<\/p>\n

Farmers call it a manmade drought.<\/p>\n

The politicos halted humans \u201ctaking\u201d water, \u201cdiverting\u201d it, from fish. Under the U.S. Constitution, the taking of private property requires just compensation\u2014not mass confiscation. Water rights are a complex species of property.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur findings show that atmospheric river activity exceeds what has occurred since instrumental record keeping began,\u201d said Clarke Knight, a U.S. Geological Survey research geographer.<\/p>\n

Still, DWR scheduled 2024 meetings of the Drought Resilience Interagency & Partners (DRIP) Collaborative for April, July, and October.<\/p>\n

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California\u2019s Perpetual Drought Is Manmade and Intentional The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) last week released its next five-year plan for the State Water Project\u2014Update 2023. After years of meetings, California\u2019s premier water agency has decided to focus on \u201cthree intersecting themes: addressing climate urgency, strengthening watershed resilience, and achieving equity in water management.\u201d […]<\/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":[220,34465,16350,866,16547],"class_list":["post-67818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-drought","tag-roger-canfield","tag-the-epoch-times","tag-water","tag-water-shortages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67818","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=67818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67819,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67818\/revisions\/67819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}