Conserving Water Problems In California

In the article “Richard Goode: California drought crisis is everyone’s fault,” Richard Goode (2015), states that California does not have enough water to provide and everyone is responsible for it. California’s water problem has been an ongoing situation for years. Hydrologists have predicted and advised us about the water deficit in California, but everyone chose to ignore it. California has been pumping its water straight from the aquifer for years and now it is becoming dry. An enormous amount of water is being pumped each year which causes the water table to go low. When the water table is low, wells go dry and people are left without water. Richard Goode mentions, that California will be in a drought until we are able to receive the same amount of groundwater that we withdraw. However, we might be too late.

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.

Water is the most important resource, controlling all aspects of life. The effect on climate change is changing California’s water quality and quantity. This creates

Currently California is facing a water shortage. The issue has been addressed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in February. He called for all state agencies to find the way to help in the statewide water shortage. This is California’s third consecutive year of drought and last spring and summer was the worst of the season because it had the lowest amount of water recorded and California’s reservoirs were at their lowest point as well which did not help in the water shortage. Many agencies have been acquired to find possible solutions to the water shortage, the Department of Water Resources has been directed to find solutions to the problem as well as asking people to conserve water.

Fresno is a city located in central California, also known as San Joaquin Valley Famously knows for its grape field and green trees. Known for where the immigrants came to work, by picking grapes making little to know money. Every year I go back to visit my home town about twice a year, each time we get near the grape vine which is located between Fresno and Las Angeles. The first thing that is noticed by the eye is the magnificent greenery and farm lands that can’t be passed without notice of its beauty. Every tree was full and rich looking to the roots and all around the ground would look moist and fully watered, without a doubt these farm lands where being taken care of. Recently in the past three years of taking the long exhausting drive from the dry lands of Tucson to the green lands of Fresno hasn’t been the same. The green lands of central valley are not as green as they once were. The grounds look dry and not as moist as before.

The way Americans use water all depends on the location and how much water is readily available. California, a dry state with scarce water supply, versus Florida, a tropical state with more water resources, have very different ways of using water throughout the day. For example, Coastal southern California has cutting-edge water usage policies, including mandatory low-flow toilets and strict lawn watering laws (Pickert, 19). Compared to Florida, which has an adequate water supply, Floridians still use more water than what is available, and have very little water usage policies to resolve this issue (Behn, 45). Although there are many issues concerning water usage in Florida and California, there are many ways in which they can be resolved,

And for the better part of the last decade the most of that water has been wasted, vanished, and overused. According to the article California’s Drought Is Part of a Much Bigger Water Crisis. Here’s What You Need to Know by Amanda Zamora, Lauren Kircher and Abreham Lustgarten, Acrane laws aren’t telling framers to reduce or stop taking water from the rivers, instead there doing the complete opposite where there encouraging the farmers to take more water then they require from not only the limited amount the Colorado has, but also from the other rivers in California as well. You even have some “federal subsidies encourage farmers to plant some of the crops that use the most water.” (Zamora, Kirchner and Lustgarten) Because of all the overuse, misuse and wasted water the Colorado Rivers flow has decreased tremendously and that has directly impacted the critical low amount of water that Lake Mead now holds. The amount of disregard the citizens and leading officials have towards this severe drought, is what is going to make water the oil of the 21st

We have all heard that the drought in California is finally over but, if history repeats itself, we know that it will be back sooner rather than later. The drought has taught us how Groundwater is used and who uses the most. Groundwater is water from below Earth's surface that fills empty spaces and cracks in the rock. 30 million Californians rely on groundwater for their drinking water supply.

For those causes and effects, the California officials have come up several solutions for solving this problem. The first solution is education. The residents in California do not have enough concept of saving water, so they use a lot of water to water their lawns and plants, wash their clothes daily although they have just worn a t-shirt with jean for two hours, and keep water flowing when they are brushing their teeth. Through education, people will notice the problem of water shortage in their home country, and understand the correct way to save water. The second solution is adding the cost of using an amount of water, and we will set a water usage average line for the residents. It means that you will be cost extra money when the amount

Water sustainability is an ever-growing problem because of the increase in population, and over consumption used by agriculture, industry, and domestic which are using more water than we are able to supply. According to CBS News, California’s water shortage has been a big issue since 2011. Climate change has a lot to do with the amount of water we have available to us because the amount we need does not cut out to the amount needed to satisfy the population. Therefore, conservation is key; we must take into consideration the amount we use in a daily basis. Both you and I can easily save water we have, directly and indirectly like what we consume with what we eat, buy and use, which would overall improve water sustainability.

California used to depend on surface water but once we started to see that surface water was depleting, we went straight to groundwater. After many years groundwater has also started to disappear leaving the question “what are we going to do next?”. This problem is causing the land of california to sink, make the next drought we are going to have even worse, using most of the groundwater we have left faster than it can get filled back up again, and ect. Therefore, the state of California should conserve more groundwater by lowering the maximum capacity of pumping extractions, recycling water to fill aquifers back up, and seawater desalination.

Here in the desert we all know it’s a very dry place. You may also know that California is in a drought as well and the dryness of our area has resulted in many continuous disadvantages. People are conserving water as much as they can but maybe some of you out there are not doing your part in saving our water and I am here to tell you it is so simple! But first, let me provide some facts on the drought in California that should help you realize the dire situation we are in.

Do you enjoy eating food. For the past years california is in one of the most disastrous droughts california has ever seen.The state government has been looking for ways to conserve water and one of the ways would to control the use of the water in the aquifer. The solution is to create a law that would eliminate the farmers rights to be able to use the groundwater which supplies the farmers with water for there crops. California's farm bureau should not control the aquifer use because the consumer prices will go up and it's a violation to their rights.

The state of California may run out of groundwater in as little as ten years. California is dependent on groundwater, and without it, it would be thrown into a statewide water crisis. So far, people do not know about this problem or do not care or believe in it. The state of California must prevent groundwater overuse by regulating groundwater use, making regulations telling farmers when and how to

California has been in a drought for about 4 years now and it has been considered the most severe drought in the last 15 years. The California drought has been causing multiple ongoing problems for the last few years. The state of California has tried to take actions toward ending the drought, but the efforts put forth are clearly not enough to end this drought. The main focus in ending the drought has been water conservation, but many California resident are taking the seriousness of the drought too lightly. The drought has already caused several problems, for example water shortages, dying crops, and wildfires all across the state. If serious actions towards ending the drought are not taken soon, California will continue to surface or may get worse. There are a few ideas underway to try and end the drought in California such as, desalination, wastewater recycling, ground water digging, and the main focus water conservation. All of the solutions to ending the drought will cost a good amount of money, so the fact of the matter is which idea would be most efficient and less costly.