Drought Essay

The drought in California isn’t even close to seeing an end, in the article Solutions to California Water Crisis From Half a World Away by Stephen Stock, Michael Bott, Jeremy Carroll and Felipe Escamilla, it reports that California needs to brace itself for multiple decades more of this monumental drought and that it going to take trillions of gallons of water to catch up to the state current deficit. They summarized the severity of this drought by saying that it could rain every day in San Francisco

The human impact on natural environment is one of the most pressing issues of contemporary times and a subject of discussion. The increasing human population and the rising level of technology both have become significant factors in raising the environmental problems. There are several environmental problems around the world today which occurred due to both natural and human causes. Of all the global environmental problems, desertification is, perhaps, the most threatening problem. Desertification

Ms. Hurts Period 6 9/23/16 Mrs. Hurts What is harming life “water” ? The major resource in the world “Water” for most people meaning life which created all living things that exist; has come to a point of scarcity. Imagine living in world where the most needed resource “water” was unavailable. For some, around the world people have been experiencing it. Countries like China and India have been suffering of bad and poor quality water. But it did not happen until the last years that people

the 3-year drought. In Texas, the signs of drought are very clear. Monty (a cattle farmer) has had to sell 2/3 of his stock just to stay in business. The drought was devastating for the cattle herd in Texas. Drought in Texas is normal and has happened before, but Nellie (a resident of Plainview, a mother, and a former worker at Cargill meat packing plant) mentions she has never seen drought this bad. With over 70 churches in the town, everyone including Nellie believes that the drought is a cycle

development of desert-like conditions in regions that have experienced human disturbance (Laura, n.d.). Drought, growing population and war are factors affecting desertification. They have their tremendous impacts; however, they can be solved. Causes Drought is one of the most related factors to desertification. It is defined as a long period of time when there is little or no rain. Drought can be caused by not receiving rain over a period of time. This is because of climate change which has been

attention to many people to try to fix the problem. With the Central Valley being the agricultural capital of the world, the current drought issue that we are facing is not only historic, but also very alarming for several reasons. With the current record-breaking drought in California, there are three factors that are said to be the reasons for causing the drought, which includes rising temperatures, shortage of water from the Colorado River, and depletion in groundwater (Macdonald, 2015). With

Writing/COMM/215 October 6, 2014 Carolyn Geiser Water Crisis Impact in California 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

According to Daniel L. Swain of the American meteorological society and Stanford University, says that the 2013 and 2014 drought in California was an exceptional climate event in the western coast of the United States( Swain) The drought that has impacted the state of California has been a national phenomena for a few years now and how it affects the climate and economic aspects of the United States economy has helped increase awareness to the general public of the United States. California has

modification is considered a scientific approach of altering or manipulating weather deliberately. Baum (2014) asserts that the possibility of using weather modifications have increased significantly. He cites the example of United States, where severe drought had primarily been responsible for reducing the supply of wheat, corn and soybean and escalating prices of these crops. The prescribed article reviews the cloud seeding technique for modifying weather conditions and to induce rain. The article has

because a drought crisis has arised. Bubar (2015) defined a drought as a long period of little or no rainfall or snowfall, leading to a shortage of water. Moreover droughts are natural disasters that are not as violent as tornadoes, earthquakes, and hurricanes, but they can cause serious damage. Bubar (2015) found a small town in central California that is struggling to meet the simple if not given rights to have and use water. This town is called Porterville and has been affected by the drought at a