{"id":9332,"date":"2015-06-22T06:37:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T11:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9332"},"modified":"2015-06-22T06:37:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T11:37:54","slug":"water-wars-crush-california-wineries-whoever-has-the-longest-straw-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9332","title":{"rendered":"Water Wars Crush California Wineries: “Whoever Has The Longest Straw Wins”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Water Wars Crush California Wineries: “Whoever Has The Longest Straw Wins”<\/a><\/h3>\n

Eerily reminiscent of the determinedly evil oil baron from the movie\u00a0‘There Will Be Blood’<\/em>,\u00a0Reuters reports<\/a>\u00a0the growing tensions amid California’s drought-stricken wineries are boiling over:\u00a0“There is way too much demand. I blame a lot of vineyards like other people do… It’s a matter of who has the longest straw at the bottom of the bucket.”<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0No one should worry though, because the government is here to help – with a new water management agency…<\/p>\n

Between 1990 and 2014, harvested wine grape acreage in the growing region around Paso Robles nearly quintupled to 37,408 acres,\u00a0<\/strong>as vintners discovered that the area’s rolling hills, rocky soil and mild climate were perfect for coaxing rich, sultry flavors from red wine grapes. But,\u00a0as Reuters reports,<\/a>\u00a0in the last few years, California’s ongoing drought has hit the region hard,\u00a0<\/strong>reducing grape yields and depleting the vast aquifer that most of the area\u2019s vineyards and rural residents rely on as their sole source of water other than rain.<\/p>\n

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Across the region, residential and vineyard wells have gone dry.<\/strong>Those who can afford to \u2013 including a number of large wineries and growers \u2013 have drilled ever-deeper wells, igniting tensions and leading some to question whether Paso Robles’ burgeoning wine industry is sustainable.<\/div>\n

“All of our water is being turned purple and shipped out of here in green glass,”<\/strong>\u00a0said Cam Berlogar, who delivers water, cuts custom lumber and sells classic truck parts in the Paso Robles-area community of Creston.<\/p>\n

“There are a lot of farmers who are going to have to farm with a hell of a lot less water.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But, spurred by the drought, California Governor Jerry Brown last year signed a package of bills requiring groundwater-dependent areas to establish local water sustainability agencies by 2017.\u00a0The agencies will then have between three and five years to adopt water management plans<\/strong>, and then another two decades to implement those plans.<\/p>\n

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Water Wars Crush California Wineries: “Whoever Has The Longest Straw Wins” Eerily reminiscent of the determinedly evil oil baron from the movie\u00a0‘There Will Be Blood’,\u00a0Reuters reports\u00a0the growing tensions amid California’s drought-stricken wineries are boiling over:\u00a0“There is way too much demand. I blame a lot of vineyards like other people do… It’s a matter of who […]<\/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":[101,6616,6617,220,866,913,4318],"class_list":["post-9332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-california","tag-california-water-wars","tag-california-wineries","tag-drought","tag-water","tag-water-wars","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9332","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=9332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9333,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9332\/revisions\/9333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}