Public Policies: Facts About California's Water Supply In California

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

Main Claim: The state of California must prevent groundwater overuse by regulating groundwater use, making regulation telling farmers when and how to water crops, and improving aquifer water levels with new innovative technologies.

Since the discovery that desalination could provide humans in California with clean potable water from the ocean could be very effective, it

Organic ranchers and dairy farmers in California also feel the effects of the drought. They rely on green pasture to feed their animals a healthy diet. Due to the lack of rain, the pasture are drying up and the ranchers have to purchase supplemental organic hay from other states. In an attempt to fund the purchasing of this out of state hay, the organic farmers are selling herds to businesses for hamburger meat and the small

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

Public policies are choices made by government officials to deal with public policy (Policy & Politics in Nursing & Health Care, 6th edition)

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

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.

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

Over the years, conflict has emerged over whether the water that is distributed to the state of California should be equally provided to every part of the state, regardless of where the water has come from. People have argued that California has small water systems that they polluted by industrial uses, which makes them less efficient. People have also claimed that the state’s water systems are located in low income communities which makes it hard to gather funds for improvement. However, the distribution of water to all parts of California has many positive aspects to it. Many regions of the state have water restrictions and limited uses of water, which makes makes it more difficult for these regions. People have argued that the provision

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.

While many might agree that the California governor has lost his mind for implementing and enforcing strict laws, many can also agree that California is facing a severe drought, so if the state is facing a severe drought then its citizens should also have to face strict laws and severe consequences. On the long run, all of these strict laws such as raising water prices and enforcing citizens to set up water systems to recycle water will benefit the entire state and citizens will notice results once our statistics regarding this drought start to change. The main idea is to prevent the usage of water that is not necessary, by changing the plants we pick for our home gardens and businesses into more suitable plants that can sustain themselves with fewer amounts of water we will be conserving big amounts of water, that can be used for agriculture to grow the food we need for

Access to clean, safe, and affordable water is a fundamental human right essential for a healthy population, environment, and economy. Many communities, particularly those of low-income and communities of color are under-served. Unlike other groups, these communities lack access to safe, affordable water for drinking, subsistence, cultural, and/or recreational uses. California’s 5 years of consecutive drought have exacerbated these conditions in impoverished areas. Disadvantaged communities tend to be disproportionately impacted by disasters, both natural and human caused, due to a general lack of diversified resources. Impoverished areas tend to be reliant on a sole source of water, be geographically distant from large water projects, and

California is running out of water! Our state is now hitting its fourth year of a severe drought due to little to no rainfall and snowpack in mountains. If the weather continues on the current path and people do not make drastic efforts of conserving water, the problem is only going to get worse. Many analysts have stressed the importance of taking drastic steps to conserve water. Problems that have risen due to this severe drought have included:

Public policy is a statement that defines the procedures of an institution for the achievement of consistency in decision-making. It is the result of a political process, which involves enacting laws and regulations to enable the addressing of public concern in a constitutional manner. The efficiency of a government is founded on the presence of proper and reliable policy-making procedures. The process of policy creation is thus the implementation of the constitution by the employment of certain causes of action and resource