Summary: The Largest Drought In American History

In the 1930’s the cities Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and fell into a severe drought. They drought had lasted almost a decade, and on top of that the states had big dust storms. All the states got dust storms so much we all started to call them to“Dust Bowls.” Unfortunately not everyone could get up and move, most farmers were forced to stay. Since the farmers had to stay they had to make the most of what they had. The had no water for the crops, farm animals, or themselves.

In the article, “Decade of drought”by Anne Capeci and “Drought reports” they both discuss the effects of droughts and use photo graphs to show evidence that droughts are everywhere to begin “decade of droughts” explains how people have no water.for example in Africa they had no fresh water. Without water livestocks will die and wild animals will die from hunger and dehydration additionally the article continues to explain about drought through pictures for example they use pictures to show about what was affected by the drought Capeci reports destructive wildfire are common during droughts in southwest some say that Johnson's article is better but most people would agree that her information to tell about the drought.

Scientific sensationalism does not just water down the conversation surrounding important issues, it can make them dangerous. Because democracies hinge on an informed public, with increasing amounts of sensationalism, this public may be desensitized to genuinely alarming scientific discoveries because the have become acclimated to attention grabbing headlines

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.

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.

It was a blistering summer day and it was so hot you could fry eggs on the sidewalk. I remember the day as clearly as if it happenned yesterday. The water ninjas were prowling the streets. Mocking undercover espionage and often anonymous, they secretly watch you, snapping away photos of all your wastefulness with their iPhones. Then uploading the evidence for the world to see – and the newly empowered local Glendale water agency – to blatantly see. Within five minutes of me starting to wash my car, I look behind me and there were the water district people. They did the whole calling me “mam” cliche and asking whether I knew the laws. In the end, they wrote me up a citation for using water on a non watering day. This is just an example of an incident that can occur when excess watering occurs. Luckily for me I managed to get out of the citation for being a first time offender and promising not to do it again. Many of the conventional beliefs have laid blame on the homeowners hooked on having the shiny clean cars, crisp green lawns, and sparkling swimming pools.  However, the conventional beliefs don’t always tell the whole story. The truth is California communities all across the state have tremendously reduced their average water consumption. There have been both successes and failures in the fronts of California’s drought and the conservation efforts, but as we go forward there is a definite need in better planning.

Long ago at the time of Bernama lived a very poor family. In the family was the mom named Kate, the dad who was named Jason, the oldest girl Katrina and a younger sister named Gabby. There was a huge drought and none of the crops were growing. Everyone in the family was starving so it was up to Katrina to save her whole family.

California is going on a four-year drought, having many devastating implications that are being felt by everyone in the state. The population hit the hardest has been the farmers of California. California, being economically driven by its agricultural production, is losing hundreds of thousands of jobs every year due to the lack of water. Farmers’ use 80% of water the state produces, directly influencing their production (Mieszkowski, 2014). The country heavily relies on California for much of its produce such as tomatoes, nuts, avocados, strawberries, broccoli, grapes and various others (Cooley et al. 2015). In 2014, harvested acreage was 6.9 million acres, the lowest it has been for the past 15 years. Farmers are now being forced to use significantly less land then before, but also ditch old irrigation techniques and implement new techniques to better conserve water; maximizing production as much as possible in order to combat the drought.

Water is a privilege. Living in the 21first century America, many individuals including myself have forgotten this. Many families all over the world are forced to walk miles for water just to find that it isn't even clean. Water shortage is a problem all over the world, but especially in poor countries like Africa. Because individuals all over the world have to get their water, my class did a water walk to understand their pains, but I would change it by making it longer, carrying more water, and having harsher conditions.

No Californian is impervious to the California drought. The Bay Area, Sierra Mountains, and the Central Valley have all reported record drought conditions. Even with this obvious evidence that has been brought forth for about four years now, farmers have been continuously taking local citizen’s water for their own orchards. The California legislature needs to come to the decision that caps need to be put on large water users so the preexisting residents may receive water.

Visualize that citizens have to go 5 months without showering, living in filth, not being able to flush their toilet. Horrible right? Well sorrowfully, for numerous cresidents in California, that is the life they live. There is currently a 3-year drought in California. Innumerable citizens are compelled to drive miles and miles away in order to acquire water and bathe, while for farmers, they have been allowed to use aquifers frequently to grow their crops. We do not have enough water for both the farmers and citizens to be used oftenly, which has precipitated an outage between the two. Therefore, the California government is debating on whether to supervise the usage of aquifers. As a result, I support California enforcing

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.

One of the worst droughts occurred during the 1930s in the Southern Great Plains of the Midwest. It was known as the Dust Bowl. During this time, there were high temperatures, a lack of rain, and strong winds. The strong winds created clouds of dust from dry soil and mounds of dust were blown all around. The drought and dust devastated agriculture in the Midwest. The lack of rain killed crops. The dust suffocated livestock. The dust storms forced farmers out of business.

California is currently in it's fourth year (2012-2015) of one of the state's worst droughts in the past century, according to USA Today newspaper, one that's led to fierce wildfires, water shortages and restrictions, and potentially staggering agricultural losses. On the 28th of August 2014, all of California was considered to be in a drought, the U.S. Drought Monitor stated, and over half of the state was in “exceptional” drought, the worst level. Because of these statistics, the California Governor, Jerry Brown, declared a statewide drought emergency to reduce water usage and regulate restrictions on the use of outdoor water usage. One of the areas in California that would be greatly affected and that would affect many people due to this

California is in a very serious drought. It has changed the landscape, growth patterns, and lives of many animals and humans. We no longer live in a prosperous and fertile state with plenty of resources. The landscape has changed because the dry dirt receives no nutrients and the scorching sun does not help. It ruins the terrain and normal levels the ecosystem started out with. Without the crucial source and the necessity of water, nothing is fruitful and normal growth patterns of crops and wildlife are being disrupted. Animals are dying and going out of their normal habitats in search of food and water. Keep in mind, without sufficient water, crops and fertile dirt can not go very far. This will not only affect animals but us, humans as well.