http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20161229-California-Drought-Update.pdf
Three months into the new water year, and half-way through the rainy season, this sixth year of drought has become an enigma for some. “Are we still in a drought?,” some are asking. Others are less unclear, recognizing that the water deficit will absolutely not be made up this winter, and it will require several years of above normal precipitation to do so. A glance at the U.S. Drought Monitor, below, gives you the picture.
The Water Board continues to provoke the people of the Central Valley with their insane and generally incompetent plan to drain the San Joaquin River system into the Delta to save a few Salmon at a price tag of an estimated $650,000 per fish, at least according to Aubrey Bettencourt. (See her column below on page 12).
What continues to be lacking in any discussion about the drought is how is the state going to provide water for another 10 million people a decade or two down the road? As the quote from President John Kennedy above demonstrates, the U.S. political leaders have not always been blind to the welfare of the generations to come.
Even more importantly is the more general task of reinstilling the idea that the nation has a mission, a mission in which every citizen can and must participate. To end once and for all the destruction of the real economy requires a virtual revolution in economic and financial policy. The incoming President Donald Trump must embrace such a policy. A mission for the nation encompassing both an accelerated fusion research program and an intensely invigorated space program will be a good start. The economic policy required is spelled out in the Four Cardinal Laws authored by Lyndon LaRouche. The second law, a return to a Alexander Hamilton banking a credit policy is the subject of our “Feature” this week.
With the reserves so depleted and no sustainability of immediate replenishment, WHY ARE YOU ALLOWING ANY LAWN SPRINKLER IRRIGATION ANYWHERE IN THE STATE. THE EXCESS RUNOFF IN MY LONG BEACH, CA NEIGHBORHOOD COMES FROM FIVE BLOCKS ADJACENT TO MY PROPERTY. THERE IS A STANDING POOL OF WATER IN THE GUTTER DAILY ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE PROPERTY. ALL EXCESS IS DUE TO PEOPLE WATERING THIER WEEDS THEY THINK CONSTITUTES A LAWN. THE APARTMENT HOUSES ARE THE GUILTY PARTIES. OUTLAW LAWN SPRINKLERS AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS. IT IS TIME, I AM SURE PORTERVILLE RESIDENTS WILL APPLAUD THE CURTAILMENT.