Drought In Southern California

Practicing good water saving techniques everyday will eventually save them gallons of water over time. Small acts one can do are turning off the tap when it is not in use, using the dishwasher instead of hand washing, not watering their lawns, and taking showers instead of baths. Friedman wrote in Refinery29.com, “The average bath uses 35 to 50 gallons of water, but a 10-minute shower with a low-flow showerhead only uses 25 gallons” (Friedman). Simply changing from baths to showers can create a huge difference in a person’s water usage. Everyday people can fight against the drought at

This will help save water because seventy-five percent of our water is used by farmers who use flood irrigation which is very wasteful. The second way to be resourceful is xeriscaping which is dry landscaping. By Xeriscaping water is being saved there’s no need to water your lawn or plants. Residential Californian’s spend about fifty percent of our water on watering the outdoors; that’s more than the rainfall we receive to be wasted on plants and lawns. The third way to be resourceful is desalinization technology which is by taking water out of the ocean and treating the water so there aren’t any impurities or salt in the water so it can be digested. This method is very costly and could also cause harm to the environment. Dozens of desalinization plants have been proposed to be built in California, but it isn’t cheap. The fourth way to be resourceful is by water recycling which is being used in parts of California; but isn’t used for drinking. However, the groundwater replenishment system has purifiers which make recycled water safe to drink. This is one of the best ideas on how to be resourceful because we already have groundwater replenishment systems in California. Water recycling is cheaper than desalinization and doesn’t cause harm to our environment. Lastly in being resourceful is conservation the average Californian household uses two-hundred gallons of water a day. Some good ways to conserve are: taking shorter showers, turning off water when not in

One more efficient way people could conserve would be by having their house inspected for leaks as they account for 16% of our water supply If farmers cut back by just 5% it would be equal to the 25% that the cities in California are required to conserve. The main goal of the city-wide water restrictions

“California’s water future is increasingly uncertain,” says Heather Cooley, in her article California Needs Better Water Management and Pricing Policies (Source A). Agriculture uses 80 percent of California’s constrained water supply and proves to be the primary source of California’s drought. There has been no permanent and largely successful conservation effort to save water. However, with a reformed water management and conservation system, California’s largest industry, agriculture, can thrive while saving water at the same time.

There is no reason to wait until the day comes that there is not any water coming out of the showers or sinks in people’s homes. It is time to not only begin recognizing how severe California’s drought is, but trying to stop it by conserving more water. There is many reasons that California is in a water drought, but some of the main causes include not getting enough rainfall, over usage of water in homes, and over usage of water outside of homes. People should have a limit on the amount of water they can use within a day and be able to see how much they have used already. If people are able to physically see how much water they wasted then they might stop using so much. In order to conserve more water and prevent California’s drought to worsen

Today’s society is very different than what it was thousands of years ago. Back then everyone shared, there was no problem with who got what, and mostly no one got more than the rest. Now everything that has any value is sold for something profitable. California for instance, we have so much production of many things and we sell all around the world. California’s soil is so good that it has been maintained in agriculture for many years. But let’s not forget that agriculture needs a lot of water, for all of the food that is being planted. Water is no longer something that California has; we are and have been in a severe drought for more than four consecutive years.

Agriculture in California uses about 80% of the state’s developed water supply (Koroma). In a case of severe drought, water usage would have to be cut, which would result in fewer crops and higher prices of food. The decrease in water would also highly impact the amount of drinking water available to the population. In times of struggle, people would turn to sources such as river and ocean water which are not filtered correctly and this could lead to serious diseases such as cholera or guinea worm disease. Lastly, due to California’s large population, a water shortage would not be able to sustain it, people would be forced to relocate to other states which could result in

In California we are in a drought. On April 1st, the Governor of California Jerry Brown stood on a random patch of brown grass in the Sierra Nevada mountains which is usually covered with several feet of snow is when he announced the first forced water restrictions in the history of California.

The current four year drought in California could threaten an increase in supply costs due to crop shortage and increased costs to farmers for crop production. One solution to this issue may be to raise the crop to supply the required ingredients.

“The Coachella Valley is always operating in a state of drought because it is after all the desert; but here in the valley where our number one industry is tourism there are lush lawns, sprawling golf courses and plenty of fountains” (Angela Monroe “Water Use During Drought in the Desert” Paragraph 3). Drought has affected California, also especially the Coachella Valley, in many ways that cause the state to create precaution for their water districts. The districts in the Coachella Valley can do their part in reducing the impact of the drought by creating more precautions to save water as a community.

As a resident of the United States, imagine the nation 's future without water. Land terribly dry and brown with hardly any plants growing. Laws being put in place that would fine you for using too much water and people fighting over what remains of this extremely important resource. Each group trying to persuade the other that their need for water is greater. Well, if you are a resident of California, this is already happening. Farmers, people, and environmentalists all want the water to be used for different things, the only problem is, there isn’t enough. The current drought has continued for about five years now, with extremely high temperatures and a lack of precipitation. While personal hygiene, common comforts and the fish

It’s estimated that during the summer months the average homeowner uses 40% of their household water in the yard. While all that water may make for a lush yard, it's a huge drain on our already shrink supply. The tribulation of drought impacts everyone's daily lives through agriculture, economy, and all industries that rely on plants. As of now, California is facing a huge drought. The problem I would like to solve in my community is water conservation for drought using a sustainable method. If every household in a small neighborhood attempted to make a small effort to conserve water imagine how much water we could save!

People are also shifting away from grass lawns to save water from being wasted on something purely for intrinsic value. They are also using less water for washing dishes and showering to prevent the need for any more water extraction.

Water makes up about fifty-seven of our bodies, meaning the conservation of water and how we utilize it will either benefit or damage our economy. Up until 2011 California hadn’t had a drought for 1,200 years. As a result there’s been major consequences in people’s lives. In order to conserve water all of us need to learn from our mistakes and improve them. For example, those 15 -30 minute or longer showers are prodigious, except that in 10 minutes, people squander 30 gallons of water! Even so, people don’t realize the severity of this on the economy, it is one of the main reasons for the diminution of water. California is doing an atrocious job of conserving water that the government decided to create a new law that will help resolve the dilemma.According to Governor Brown starting April 12, California needs to have a 20% reduction of water.

Currently California has a terrible water problem, which is causing many people to cease watering in excess all across the state. The reason California has water problems is that we are emptying our underground aquifers during a drought that has been going on and many people are still wasting water on their own personal opportunities. There are many options toward either ending or surviving the water issue, such as the idea of war to take the water that California needs to survive. Another is to build a pipeline from a place with extra rainfall annually that California can syphon off for usage. Another is the option to conserve water across the state and to reuse water as much as possible to minimize excess water usage. The most viable of these solutions is the conservation and recycling of water. By conserving and recycling water there is no waste, only recycled water for cleaning dishes, watering plants, and washing houses and cars. The only foreseeable problem is that the process cannot be monitored and people are only held by honesty and a promise to do what they can to conserve water, but the conservation of water seems to be the most affordable, quickly enacted, and can be done by most families. Also the other options require a higher amount of financial support to begin and continued maintenance, large spans of time to orchestrate, and would need a lot of manpower. With the option of water conservation time, money, and manpower is not as high of a needed factor when