Drought stricken California

NASA: CALIFORNIA HAS ONE YEAR OF WATER LEFT

Drought stricken California

Drought stricken California has only one more year of water left

A NASA scientist is warning.

yet, only  when they are completely H2O bereft

will all its implications be dawning.

Even though people may still  manage a drink from fashionable bottles

for  everything else living,  extreme dryness throttles--

and you may need a gun  and have to act like a desperado

in order to get and then  be served even an avocado,

and, unless they do something really drastic.

all those Rose Bowl flowers will have to be plastic. 

hzl

1/17/15

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The Raw Story

4 days ago - Plagued by prolonged drought, California now has only enough water to get it through the next year, according to NASA. In an op-ed published ..

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by DANIEL NUSSBAUM14 Mar 20151162

In an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, NASA senior water scientist Jay Famiglietti warned that California only has about one year’s worth of water supply left in its snowpack, reservoirs, and groundwater storage. If conservation efforts are not ramped up, and soon, the state could be facing a full-blown “crisis.”

NASA satellite data reportedly shows that the state’s water supply level was 34 million acre-feet below normal in 2014. Unfortunately, this year’s numbers indicate anything but improvement.

January of 2015 was the driest since the state began keeping rainfall records in 1895. Earlier this month, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) announced that the water content of snowpack measured at the Philips snow course in the Sierra Nevada mountains was just 0.9 inches, or 5 percent of the state’s March average. That water content level set a new, undesirable state record.