Showing posts with label Drought. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drought. Show all posts

Monday, April 6, 2015

But Shortage Is Man Made

April 06, 2015 California , Drought 0 Comments
Jerry Brown on California drought: ‘Climate change is not a hoax’

By Joseph Neese, Apr 5, 2015, CTNewsJunkie.com
California Gov. Jerry Brown said on Sunday the water rations he imposed in the wake of an historic drought should serve as a “wake-up call” not just for residents of his home state but everyone.

“I can tell you, from California, climate change is not a hoax,” he said on ABC’s “This Week.” “We’re dealing with it, and it’s damn serious.”

 
Brown mandated a 25% cut in the Western state’s water consumption in an executive order signed on Wednesday. The emergency actions also planned for the addition of “drought tolerant landscaping” to 50 million square miles of California lawns.

“It’s requiring action and changes in behavior from the Oregon border all the way to the Mexican border,” Brown said of his mandate. “It affects lawns. It affects people’s – how long they stay in the shower, how businesses use water.”

Read the full story:  www.msnbc.com



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Thursday, December 11, 2014

That's NOT what the GW alarmists say!

December 11, 2014 Climate Change , Doyle Rice 0 Comments
NOAA: California's Drought Not Man-Made

Doyle Rice, Dec. 8, 2014, USA Today

"It's important to note that California's drought, while extreme, is not an uncommon occurrence for the state," said Richard Seager, the report's lead author and professor with Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. The report was sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The report did not appear in a peer-reviewed journal but was reviewed by other NOAA scientists.

Read more: www.usatoday.com


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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Too much common sense

October 01, 2014 California , Drought 0 Comments
How To Slake Calif Thirst--Follow Australia's Lead On Water Rights, Water Markets

Source:  www.ecowatch.com
By Ronald Balley, Sept. 5, 2014, Reason.com

"Nature makes a drought, but Man makes a shortage." That's the trenchant slogan that the Leiden University College water resource economist David Zetland uses to sum up how bureaucratic mismanagement of supply and demand misallocates water pervasively. California's current water crisis—exacerbated by a three-year drought—is a perfect illustration of Zetland's observation.

"Scarcity and shortage are the same for water as they are for other goods—except that most other goods are traded in markets in which rising and falling prices balance supply and demand to prevent shortages," Zetland explains. The chief problem with water is that it mostly supplied by government agencies or government-sanctioned monopolies whose prices are deliberately held below the actual costs of supplying water. This predictable result of these price controls is a shortage. "Underpricing (or zero pricing in some cases) has sustained overuse: if markets delivered Porsche cars at give-away prices, they too would be in short supply," wryly observes the United Nations Development Program's 2006 report Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis.

The surface water rights situation in California is significantly complicated by the fact that existing water rights have been grossly overallocated. Surface freshwater flows average 70 million acre-feet. (An acre-foot is the amount that would cover an acre to the depth of one foot—about 326,000 gallons). But the state has allocated rights to 370 million acre-feet, over-allocating by more than 500 percent.

Read the full story:  www.reason.com

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Monday, September 29, 2014

Free market solutions?

September 29, 2014 California , Drought 0 Comments
Daily Water Allocation Could Be The Next California Drought Strategy

By Steve Scauzillo, Sept. 27, 2014, San Gabriel Valley Tribune

You probably know your Social Security number, your driver’s license number and perhaps the latest wrinkle in mattress marketing, your sleep number.

But do you know your drought number?

The latter represents the amount of water you are allowed to use per day. If you don’t know it, you probably should. Not knowing could cost you money. As California’s severe drought moves into a fourth year, state and local water agencies are working on something called “allocation-based rate structures,” a kind of precursor to water rationing that’s all the rage in Sacramento and in some areas such as Santa Cruz, Irvine and Santa Monica.

Here’s how it works: Your local water company, special district or city assigns you and your household a number in gallons — a daily water allocation. Usually, one number applies to maximum indoor water use, i.e. showers, kitchen and bathroom faucets, dishwashers, clothes washers, etc., and an extra allocation is assigned for outdoor use such as lawn irrigation.

Using census records, aerial photography and satellite imagery, an agency can determine a property’s efficient water usage.

At the Irvine Ranch Water District, number of residents, amount oflandscaping and even medical needs are factored into a household’s water allocation or water budget.

“We want you to stay within that budget. That way we know you are using water in an efficient way,” according to an instructional video on the Orange County water agency’s website.

Read the full story:  www.sgvtribune.com

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Monday, July 14, 2014

California Drought Shaming Pitting Neighbors Against Neighbors On Social Media --Oh, California!

California Drought Shaming Pitting Neighbors Against Neighbors On Social Media --Oh, California!

July 14, 2014 California , Drought 0 Comments

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