California 's Drought And Its Effect On A Non Watering Day

Yet, humans have limited control on natural events, so this only reinforces the importance of managing water wisely. Recently California’s government has begun to focus more on sustaining and restoring the water supply. Dale Kasler (2016) articulates in his article some of the steps they have decided to make to solve this serious issue. The government has made the following investments: “$415 million for watershed restoration and other environmental aid for Lake Tahoe; up to $335 million for two proposed reservoirs in California, including the Sites reservoir north of Sacramento; $880 million for flood-control projects on the American and Sacramento rivers in Sacramento; and $780 million for flood-control projects in West Sacramento” (para. 10). This could be the first step to restoring the water to California. But these

On March 27, 2014, Wade Graham of the San Francisco Chronicle reported “The Water Revolution California needs.” California is having a severe drought. Wade Graham tells his readers that California is in a serious water crisis. The state of California needs to make strict changes to how water is being distributed amongst farmers and residents. Before all of California’s ecological system is destroyed. Wade Graham believes that water should be priced higher; that way people aren’t wasting water. Water is a limited resource that should never be wasted, and is probably California’s most valuable resource. Unfortunately, many people waste water; instead of conserve water especially when we live in the state of California where we are subject to

The city of Fresno has a new water infrastructure program which brings opportunity to transport mountain water down here, so that our groundwater supply can rest, recharge, and be restored. Furthermore, the City of Fresno Water Conservation Program has been encouraging activities that lower water demand in the community to help Fresno meet the many challenges of water supply management. Another measure is that the State Water Resources Control Board has issued a new statewide water conservation policy that executes a minimum level of restrictions and stronger fines. Fresno has also moved to the Stage 2 water shortage contingency plan approved by City Council which regulates water use; it declares to limit summer outdoor irrigation to two days per week, to not water every Monday, Thursday, or Friday during summer, to limit winter outdoor irrigation to one day per week, and not to water every Monday to Friday during winter (as cited in City of Fresno Website,

The headlines came out and the hue and cry went out as well, people being jailed and fined for water collection on their own property. In one particular case a landowner diverted flowing surface water and created a containment problem. He was in clear violation and was given numerous warnings to cease without penalty but he

Californians are being heavily fined for using a certain amount of water a month, which impacts the daily lives of everyone. Water is a natural resource that is crucial to everyone’s survival. Whether if it’s being used for cooking, showering, gardening, washing your car or just simply drinking purposes; water is a necessity for everyone. Though the bill has not yet been passed by congress and officially has not become a law, the issue still remains on the table. The drought in California has taken a massive toll on agriculture, the environment and infrastructure. The drought is on its route to damage California’s climate change. In the past three consecutive years the average rain fall has drastically decreased, and the winter temperatures have increased. Since majority of California’s water comes from the Western Rocky Mountains, the water supply there is dropping resulting in more strict laws and regulations on how much water can be consumed by the average

In the his brief but effectual article “The Wrong Way to Think about California Water”, the author Michael Hiltzik presents to the reader “a guide to the wrong ways to think about California water, and the glimmer of a better way”(Hiltzik). In the short piece, Hiltzik argues that the current debate on how California should be spending its meager allowance of water during the current drought is being thoroughly misguided. Hiltzik writes that people should stop criticizing businesses that consume “large” amounts of water, rather, the water already being used should be utilized more efficiently and effectively. “The only lasting solutions include creating a better-functioning water market with transparent pricing and transfers, so that water

Recently, California has cut out 25% of its cities water usage in attempt to conserve water, but is city-wide restrictions really the answer? There are many simpler and more efficient ways of conserving water rather than flat out restricting it. Picture yourself in a poor city in California with limited food and water supply, now you’re being told by the government that your city is required to cut out one fourth of its total water supply. We all use much more, clean, drinkable water for things other than basic needs. In fact, 5.7 billion gallons of water alone are flushed down the toilet each day by millions of Americans (Fishman.) Flushing too much is not the only way Americans are wasting water, leaks, over-irrigation and cooling of power plants. Just imagine if we were able to reuse all that water or use it in more efficient ways.

Due to the drought, Governor Jerry Bown of Californina, ordered a statewide twenty- five percent cut in urban water consumption. This statewide water consumption cut will result in, “forcing the state’s biggest water users, which include some of the wealthiest communities, to bear the brunt.” The water consumption for the residents of Cowan Heights is higher than the residents of Compton because they can afford it. Stephanie Pincetl, the director of the California Center for Sustainable Communities at the University of California, Los Angeles, states, “They have bigger properties. They are less price sensitive. So if you can afford it, you use it.” The attitudes toward water consumption are different between the residents of the two cities. One resident of Compton, Alysia Thomas, stated, “she tells her children to skip a bath on days when they do not play outside; that holds down the water bill.” Although both cities have different attitudes; they both have to face the same circumstances if they do not cut back on water consumption. California distribute fines to those who do not conserve water. One wealthy resident of Cowan Heights, Mr. Sears, bimonthly water bill was regularly between four- hundred and five-hundred dollars, but it has went as high as seven-hundred and fifty six

Sometimes a crisis can lead to an opportunity for innovation and new inventions. When California was in the middle of a serious drought, a variety of companies banded together to find a solution; their result was the invention Drop-A-Brick 2.0 and the project Shock the Drought. Participants included Jake Kirsch of Shock Top Brewing Co.(a beer company that has a large demographic in California), Anheuser-Busch, Indiegogo (a crowdfunding company), Save Our Water (California's official water conservation program), and Save the Drop (LA's official water conservation program). The crisis of the drought managed to bring a diverse group of companies together in order to solve the growing problem. Drop-A-Brick 2.0 is basically a rubber brick that can be put into toilet tanks to conserve water when flushing.

Due to the lack of rain in the past few years, and particularly in the last few months, California faces severe drought. This is the worst drought in more than one hundred years. The impact of California drought affects community, agriculture, organic ranchers, and dairy farmers. Because of these facts, the United States must rethink the way it uses water. Californians alone are asked to reduce their water usage by twenty percent to prevent water waste.

There is a town out of water because of the farmers using too much water for their crops.There is no doubt that California is a big farming country evenly as important since California is in a big drought, without doubt farmers use a lot of water.If they use all the water the city won't have water.Private wells have gone dry before in California, Again not on a scale such as that in East Porterville this summer.-

In the article “The Wrong Way to Think about California Water” by Michael Hiltzik argues that water is complicated in California and how it has been used lately over the years. In the articles section Urban use: the shame of turf, says that the appliances have been made with a low use of water. I agree with Hiltzik that that we should consider/use low-flow toilets, water-stingy washing machines and other appliances that can help us conserve water. In the article “ The Wrong Way to Think about California Water”, section Urban use: The shame of turf, it states that “...even though daily urban consumption fell to 178 gallons per capita in 2010 from 232 in 1995, according to the Public Policy Institute of California- thanks largely to low-flow

Change is coming to California, whether you like it or not. We are in the period of necessity. There are a lot more people than there were 50 years ago and our water system is not prepared for it. This drought is causing a lot of things, and people are not taking it seriously. Sixty percent of water in California is used for irrigation and agriculture, and forty percent is used for the actual people.

California has been in a drought for about five years. Every year we seem to lose more and more water and it's becoming a big issue to California. Residents spend gallons of water in a day and instead of wasting more water they should be saving it. One of the main issue is that residents waste so much water on their lawn. They’ll water their lawn for hours or just water one specific area of the grass for a long time. Many water their lawn when their grass is already dead or don’t even have grass, so basically watering dirt. Another issue is that many will water their lawn and then turn on their sprinklers or have sprinklers on while it's raining. Many don’t care about wasting water, but soon it's going to be a big issue and we won’t have enough water to even water our lawn. People also waste a bunch of water when they turn on the shower. They wait about 10 to 15 minutes sometimes before they actually get in and then spend about 30 mins in the shower. Many residents will also leave their faucets running and won’t fully turn them off. Residents will throw away their water when it's still half way full, when they can just pour that water into a bush, instead of throwing that water in the trash. Another big cause of

Have you ever felt uncomfortable about not taking a shower for two or more days? Well, for many Californians that rely on failing water pumps, many of them haven’t taken a shower in over two to five months. Three years of over-pumping has caused the water supply in our underground aquifers to slowly dry up because farmers are pumping more water out than can be replaced by the rain. Now, because many towns are starting to lose their water due to their reliance on aquifer pumps, legislation is being considered. But this decision to put a cap on those pumps has many farmers upset, for these farmers believe that they should have an unlimited access to water. One farmer said that “The city folk are biting the hand that feeds them.” But as many farmers believe that they should have unlimited access to the pumps, many people in the cities that have no water believe that there should be