re: Why is California drying up?

Bjorn,

It’s a storage and lessening waste problem that we have. We have dry years and wet years. An hour from me I can be in the mountains at 5,000ft with 8-10ft of snow in a bad year. The amount of snow we get here pales in comparison to what Northern California gets. I can look at the mountains that are 50 miles away in July and still see snow also during a dry year. We have white water rapids here too. The population has grown and there’s no denying it plays into things. But we are extraordinarily wasteful as a state with our water and that’s on the environmentalists. There’s little balance here and it impacts everyone. Just like how our forests are abused by the same groups. The forested areas dwarf the amount of desert.

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California is historically barren and dry. It does not have the water to support its population.

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There is plenty of water to support the population here. Consider how much water is used for Ag and how that food goes to wherever you happen to live. If we cut back our ag production the country is completely screwed as are many nations that we export to.