{"id":7065,"date":"2015-04-03T07:33:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T12:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7065"},"modified":"2015-04-03T07:33:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T12:33:26","slug":"how-many-people-will-have-to-migrate-out-of-california-when-all-the-water-disappears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7065","title":{"rendered":"How Many People Will Have To Migrate Out Of California When All The Water Disappears?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/how-many-people-will-have-to-migrate-out-of-california-when-all-the-water-disappears\" target=\"_blank\">How Many People Will Have To Migrate Out Of California When All The Water Disappears?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>The drought in California is getting a lot worse.\u00a0 As you read this, snowpack levels in the Sierra Nevada mountains\u00a0<strong>are the lowest that have ever been recorded<\/strong>.\u00a0 That means that there won\u2019t be much water for California farmers and California cities once again this year.\u00a0 To make up the difference in recent years, water has been pumped out of the ground like crazy.\u00a0 In fact, California has been losing\u00a0<a title=\"more than 12 million acre-feet of groundwater a year\" href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/california-is-turning-back-into-a-desert-and-there-are-no-contingency-plans\">more than 12 million acre-feet of groundwater a year<\/a>\u00a0since 2011, and wells all over the state are going dry.\u00a0 Once the groundwater is all gone, what are people going to do?\u00a0 100 years ago, the population of the state of California was 3 million, and during the 20th century we built lots of beautiful new cities in an area that was previously a desert.\u00a0 Scientists tell us that the 20th century was the wettest century in 1000 years for that area of the country, but now weather patterns are reverting back to normal.\u00a0 Today, the state of California is turning back into a desert but it now has a population of 38 million people.\u00a0 This is not sustainable in the long-term.\u00a0 So when the water runs out, where are they going to go?<\/p>\n<p>I have written quite a few articles about the horrific drought in California, but conditions just continue to get even worse.\u00a0 According to NPR, snowpack levels in the Sierra Nevada mountains are\u00a0<a title=\"\u201cjust 6 percent of the long-term average\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thesalt\/2015\/04\/01\/396780035\/scary-times-for-california-farmers-as-snowpack-hits-record-lows\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cjust 6 percent of the long-term average\u201d<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The water outlook in drought-racked California just got a lot worse: Snowpack levels across the entire Sierra Nevada are now the lowest in recorded history \u2014 just 6 percent of the long-term average. That shatters the previous low record on this date of 25 percent, set in 1977 and again last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Many People Will Have To Migrate Out Of California When All The Water Disappears? The drought in California is getting a lot worse.\u00a0 As you read this, snowpack levels in the Sierra Nevada mountains\u00a0are the lowest that have ever been recorded.\u00a0 That means that there won\u2019t be much water for California farmers and California [&hellip;]<\/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":[4,7],"tags":[20,101,3816,220,299,4600,866,867],"class_list":["post-7065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-agriculture","tag-california","tag-desert","tag-drought","tag-farming","tag-migration","tag-water","tag-water-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065","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=7065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7067,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065\/revisions\/7067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}