The biggest thing is that the settlement is going on from compaction due to removal of ground water. Once that pore space is collapsed the ability to "recharge" it is completely gone so the original storage capacity is permanently decreased as far as groundwater storage. The ground wont rise from recharge but it will keep sinking due to mismanagement.
Their only hope is to reduce the rate of sinking in the future. It's questionable if this will happen so they're planning for a cushion with the new canal.
it's California, the people don't know or care what is happening, they'll ruin everything then just move to a new location to destroy, none of this matters
No, it is caused by environmentalist politics in Sacramento. There is water in the Delta, and more than 50% of whatever snowmelt comes down from the mountains goes out to the ocean. Oh, and the Governor fan get off his ass, and appropriate Prop 1 funds to fix the irrigation systems and build dams. We all voted to pass Prop 1, but NOT A SINGLE THING has been done, and not ONE CENT has been spent
If you had a normal rainy season, you'd need to pull less water out of the ground, but those days might be gone. The same thing is happening to the Ogallala Aquifer. Every few years, wells have to be drilled deeper. Another option is to sit around and wait 6,000 years until the Ogallala Aquifer is refilled.
You sure danced around it to avoid saying that draining the underground aquifers is what's causing the sinking. But hey, let's "fix" the canals and continue to suck the ground dry.
With an ocean right over there. Gonna have to start sucking from the ocean. Maybe reconsider allowing 50% of California's fresh water running into the ocean for some smelt fish that can only live in brackish waters. And almonds, are they worth all the damage to the land and the taxpayer expense to they can be shipped to Asia? I say, fuc* the almonds. Grow something less water intensive.
@@disbelief3911 They couldn't leave it out entirely, but they were careful to couch it very vague language and to pad it with lots of other issues. Only viewers who're already familiar with the facts are very likely to have picked it up.
Tulare County was once home to the Tulare Lake, the 9th largest lake in the U.S. which was drained for farming back in the 50s this has caused an environmental and ecological impact. Since the lake was drained farmers have started using ground water which is causing the subsidence of up to 27ft in some areas.
When you over pump an aquifer for many decades This is going to happen. The Aquifer was used as an unlimited resource. Which it is not. This is a very short term Band-Aid at best.
@@johnnyllooddte3415 You can over-pump any aquifer if pumping exceeds the long-term recharge rate. What vested interest do you have that you would spout drivel in public?
Use govt powers of seizure to apply WaterFX solar distillation - at 1/2 to 1/6 current water production costs - the tech was sold to an oil co that's sitting on it, after govt funding perfected it - use that to make water to sell farmers & ban pumping.
@Okay thank you byeee - It is very much a "shoot yourself in the foot while trying to run a marathon" to NOT point out the obvious problems. Everyone looks down on the Valley, but a VERY significant portion of food is grown there. If that collapses, effects will be tremendous. The Valley is not anyone's enemy. And to root for the failure of a region which has such a large impact on everyone as a whole is both foolhardy and speaks volumes about one's ostrich selfishness.
Much of the San Joaquin Valley is sinking because the farmers are pumping all of the aquifers dry for flood irrigation. Why are they pumping them dry? Because all of the mountain source rivers that would replenish the groundwater are diverted into reservoirs that then push all of the water through those canals so people in the LA Basin and places like Palm Springs can live in deserts and have free flowing water.
70% of water is sent through the delta and allowed to flow right into the ocean unused in order to keep salinity levels at acceptable levels. A single dam along the delta to the bay area would fix all of this. But it would me allowing everything west of that dam to be salty ocean water, instead of brackish which is what we have now.
This is what happens when you try to over-populate in a dessert, when you try to over farm where water and soil nutrients are finite. This was going to happen at some point, with or without climate change. Climate change is just moving that time table. Everyone knew this was going to happen. Nothing was done to fix it. No water real water cuts. Increases instead of decreased farming. Didn't even try to secure water from other sources.
Agriculture is a much bigger water user than cities. The reasons the aquifers are being overused now are valuable water-intensive crops, especially almonds, and a twenty-year mega drought made worse by climate change.
The entire valley is a flood plain sport, you know what hat is? Problem is when you dam the rivers and slowey release the water into the ocean for no reason at all...
Haha but actually it's a great area for farming. Mild winters and flat land with great soil and rain and snow water from the nearby alpine mountains. There's plenty of water in California, it's just mismanaged. There's lots of good videos about that.
@@redhorsereincarnated5040 plenty of water in California is simply laughable. Cali has a population that exceeds what is replenished annually alone. Then add farming and industry. You have Land subsiding 1 foot a year to pumping water and Cali takes 40% of the Colorado River - please wake up
@@travisjohn4630 well buckey, you do realize that flood plains do not flood regularly in most cases and end up in an ocean. Whether you like it or not California is an arid environment, your feelings aside
@@nosoupforyou425 No Sporty, clearly you're a silly person who needs to start reading books. Here you are speaking in generalizations "most cases", no Sparky, we are not talking about "most cases" we're talking about a single case. Like I said, stop voting democrat.
Lol the self-proclaimed environmental stewards that spray pesticide over miles of crop so that their almonds can look prettier when they sell it to China.
It's amazing how much we can trample our enviornment and out planet and we just shrug it off and put in a temporary "fix" the whole time ignoring the root cause of it. Great to see this massive project underway.... it'll be done just in time for the canal to go completely dry just like the reservoirs and hydropower damns are going dry right now. Brilliant ....just brilliant...
@@Matlockization lol shortsighted punk the earth moves on a different scale then humans 60 years to the earth is less then a heartbeat for you. It may be slow but humans are killing the earth and this is just one example of it.
This situation reminds me Sam Kinison’s classic bit about people living in the desert and how to help them. It was a desert when people moved there. They diverted water from thousands of miles away to feed water intensive crops like almonds and avocados. The Earth keeps dropping hints like hey this isn’t working, but humans being human will just keep slapping bandaids on top of bandaids until the day comes when no bandaid can save them. So as Sam said, here is how to help them. Send them a U Hqul truck and tell them to MOVE OUT OF THE DESERT. ITS A DESERT. IT WILL ALWAYS BE A DESERT. THATS WHY NOTHING GROWS. MOVE OUT OF THE DESERT! AAAHHHHHH! If people were meant to live in a desert then there would be water and food there and it wouldn’t be called a desert.
@@travisjohn4630 you clearly show your ignorance. Don’t know what voting democrat has to do with people building canals to direct water to a bunch of bone dry desert. Most of Southern California and Arizona are in fact deserts. Learn how to read a topo map. If it was a flood plain they wouldn’t be relying on a canal to bring the water there. Utah wants to get in on the action and build a new pipeline to run water from the river to St George, which is also a desert city. Keep dreaming. The water will run out, it’s only a matter of time and the desert will return back to what it always was, a desert. Another whiny Republican blinded by their own ignorance. I’ll run my sprinklers for a couple hours extra for you this morning.
@@travisjohn4630 you said it yourself. It “was” a floodplain. Tell me the last time it flooded. The problem is growing water intensive crops in an arid environment, using more water than is naturally replaced in an average year. So keep on blaming “dUh LiBtaRdZ” all you want, you’re just sticking your head in the sand “sport”.
@@keithadams812 typical boomer blaming the younger generation for the mess they made. Your response is that of someone who’s mad because they’re wrong but they’re too stupid to see even know why they’re mad.
The San Joaquin Valley wasn't a desert until all of the mountain range originating rivers like the Merced and Tuolumne were diverted into water storage which is then shipped by that giant canal down to the actual desert known as the LA Basin and the Inland Empire.
@@tjs114 San Joaquin, California gets 9 inches of rain, on average, per year. Most experts agree that a desert is an area of land that receives no more than 25 centimeters (10 inches) of precipitation a year. end of story.... sorry
Stop referring to it as a drought. Calling it a drought implies it will pass soon. This is the new climate. Understanding that will allow people to make meaningful changes sooner.
I study hydraulic civil engineering, this is great to watch infrastructure being erected, the thing is once the capillaries that allow the grounds permeability, are being squashed when they lack the presence of liquid and then lack of support for substructures, foundations, abutments for the canal etc causing subsidence, A non related fact that’s ironic, it’s easier to achieve a hermetic grade seal in a water pipe than a pneumatic pipe.
I sure hope that if you ever find work as an engineer who had to race to finish a water works project that you remember to wear your racing helmet on your head.
Use govt powers of seizure to apply WaterFX solar distillation - at 1/2 to 1/6 current water production costs - the tech was sold to an oil co that's sitting on it, after govt funding perfected it - use that to make water to sell farmers & ban pumping.
A chunk of the valley pumps the water out of underground aquifers, that's causes the land to sink, and especially during drought it gets worse, this project will help carry the water to where it's needed a project like any project takes years to plan and do. Just like the new hwy 132 connection 4-5 decades later it's getting finished, you don't just bulldoze and build, it takes time and planning especially for mega projects like these.
@@donniebunkerboi9975 yeah if you want to override a private citizen’s right to land ownership, I mean eminent domain everything if you want too lol so we make compromises it’s the reason why large projects take so long, the Central Valley provides a large amount of food not just to the country but to large portion of the world also. Progress is nice but we also have to balance it with the farmland that exist here.
You want to talk about water in Kern county let's talk about valley water Management and the oil fields out off highway 33 and how they ran injection Wells into the aquifer and they are pumping oil-filled wastewater into the ground out of Bill Kirby road and highway 33
A couple years ago there was good amount of rain but instead of keeping it in their reservoir, they released it and they're panicking about how they don't have enough water. 🙄
We had a bad drought in the 70's and learned nothing from it , instead of building more reservoirs to hold water during the wet years we saved field mice and flowers. 45 years later no new reservoirs added but the population has risen by over 20 million people.
It's NOT A DROUGHT ! ! ! We have been in the process of ARIDIFICATION for over a decade now. "Aridification is the process of a region becoming increasingly arid, or dry. It refers to long term change, rather than seasonal variation. It is often measured as the reduction of average soil moisture content." Wikipedia
this is primarily due to overuse of water resources in a desert. they are pumping too much ground water. self-inflicted environmental damage going on in CA.
Should use a desalination plant to pump water into the aquifers and send the brine water to the Great Salt Lake to cover the ground and bury the arsenic dust threatening the residents near it. Might not bring the ground up but might slow or stop it from continuing down… this would also help all the towns whose wells went dry from the agricultural and non potable water user to get water without having to go through extraordinary means. If we were smart we’d use the excess solar and wind power to run the desalination plants..🤷♂️
Bad idea, the brine from desalination is detrimental to oceans environment, and once the land subsides from ground water removal their is no recharging it.
I understand that the aquifer in California's Central Valley is becoming depleted and has begun to sink. That's a serious situation, considering how much food for the nation comes from that area.
No more bridges? Is that permanent? That's going to cause some major logistic hurdles if so. As someone who used to drive as a courier between Fresno and The Oakland Bay Area....I remember quite a few bridges.
I got lost in that area while driving south to Mexico. I was thinking "Wow look at all these nice roads and bridges going-nowhere and luscious cool water in the canals, and almond trees, I was wondering where they got so many almonds that they could milk them." It was amazing.
There will be road crossings, just no bridges. They are now building syphon constructions because they cause less trouble with further sinking. Syphons aren't perfect and sinking will cause some construction cost, but you can usually fix them, even in extreme situations where your road ends up below your water level. That is why they switch from bridges to syphons.
What a drag, sorry to hear that, in the early seventies I used to water ski that canal with my dad's pickup. 55 miles long nonstop at one point. A buddy of mine didn't believe I could do 75 on one water ski so we took his new mustang Mach 2 and I tied onto the bumper. He had to go back and tell all our friends that I actually did it at 75. We got busted by the canal police that day also right after that. The cop asked me if I was crazy and I told him no, just fast. They actually just let us walk. Best water skiing for a hundred miles
I thought the water tables under the central valley were mostly clay, and that when the water is pumped out and the land sinks, it's impossible to re-charege them? Also: Doesn't almost all that water just go to L.A.?
@@johnnyllooddte3415 Yeah. No. When groundwater is pumped out of certain underground aquifers faster than it is replaced-particularly those in fine clay or silt soils-the aquifer loses the hydraulic pressure that supported it. Sediment falls in on itself, causing the aquifer to collapse and the ground to sink. Pumping groundwater helped California weather an epic drought, but that comes with consequences. Once collapsed, lost space in a clay aquifer cannot be refilled, meaning valuable freshwater storage space is lost forever.
Several area of the San Joaquin Valley sit on limestone-- Tracy, Manteca, Ripon, Escalon, Riverbank, Oakdale, Lindon, all the way up to just before Sonora. I know there's more between Modesto and Merced.
@@TouchingClothProd Is that science from a reputable source? If so, can you share that? Cos the way I see it is that any 'sediment collapse' would be due to clay shrinking once water has been removed, that would then create voids, which could then collapse. If water were to be reintroduced then the clay would absorb it and expand
Thanks for the unregulated agriculture pumping, California Water Resources Board. WTF. We're in a drought and Big Ag is still using over 80% of the state's water for high-water-intensive flood crops like nut trees, rice and cattle. WE HAVE PLENTY OF WATER - we just need to mange/restrict the crops these wasteful groundwater pumpers are allowed to cultivate and the means by which they're allowed to irrigate. And hey everyone in a metro area: did you know the majority of water customers in the central Valley have no meters? They pay a flat fee (a tiiiiiiny percentage of what most metered customers pay) for *unlimited* amounts of water...
Just 5 years ago they had too much rain and the Orville dam was going to overflow and collapse. Why didn't the state pump any of that water back into the ground and restore the water table?
Weird. Almost like that massive almond tree field right next to it might have something to do with it? Maybe stop growing half the countries food in a desert? That would make too much sense.
I agree. More people need to realize that the Central Valley has continued to expand year over year it has the water increased? No it’s actually gone down. I am 54 years old and have seen the entire Corredor of Highway five turn from cotton fields to grapes. It’s unbelievable. You can see the people that are screwed in some kind of weird water right because their trees are dead. They were stupid enough to plant almond trees. I am so tired of Central Valley, right wing, conservative bellyachers win the federal government made them absolutely filthy rich
It is not just almonds that are grown here. 80-90% of the nation's food supply is grown here...almost every variety of fruits and vegetables, cotton, and more are grown here... But, if you do not like our food, then I guess you can starve to death.
The increase on draining underground aquifers to sustain the current rate of water use in a drought will accelerate the creation of voids beneath the surface. And concentrated aquifer extraction is usually always in and around population centers: Sinkholes might be the next new thing to appear where it all drops at once and the extra weight of a Town for instants with some trucks rumbling through might be enough to cause the entire town to collapse into a sinkhole.
That's not how geology works. The physics of your proposed scenario make no sense and there isn't a single example in history of anything remotely similar ever happening.
The weight of a town?!.. ha ha ha.. buildings are mostly space and weigh a fraction of the first few of feet of dirt they sit on. and the 'entire town'??!! - you need to stop believing the horseshit that Hollywood feeds you in disaster movies..
Connecticut was going brown until it committed to planting trees. The forest canopy shaded the ground, and built up the aquifers. As per the previous comment that it takes a gallon of water to create a single almond: 1. Water is renewable, 2. Those trees produce oxygen while drinking water. Win, win.
The way God likes to play jokes on the human race: as soon as they finish with the new canal the drought will be over and the old one will work just fine.
In some places the lord is see as just a jokester. Same old same old, make your own miracle beliefs for me. We are just little humans trying to control nature. It will never be done, better off to pray we get it done better than before 😆
Kalifornia does not have the electricity to run de-sal plants. EV mandate is threatened for 2035 so electricity shortage will get worse. We stupidly are retiring natural gas capacity just as demand is ramping up. There is not enough solar and wind to replace fossil.
Desalination is incredibly expensive. You're talking about spending massive amounts of money to subsidies these farms that SHOULD NOT EXIST IN THE FIRST PLACE. They're growing monsoon crops in the desert by stealing a public resource.
@@2011blueman How much do you think building and now rebuilding these canals cost? How much do you think not having water cost? Why is California taking most of the water out of Lake Mead when we have an ocean on the whole west side of California that could supply all of the water we could ever need? Plus, there are now solar-powered desalination plants.
The great Tulare Lake was the biggest lake this side of Mississippi in the USA located central California drained by farmers Boswell to gov brown ECT.. in the lake bottom out west towards the ocean Kettleman City looks like Baron Wasteland.. from years of fertilizer use build up and no water..
That canal carry’s water to Southern CA & that is part of the problem. The amount of food grown in Tulare County needs to be the first priority and any additional pumping for outside areas makes no sense as it only exacerbates the problem. What are some alternatives.
It is not just almonds that are grown there. Farming is a multi-billion dollar industry. Tomatoes, corn, pomegranates, grapes/raisins/wine, lettuce, citrus (oranges, lemons, grapefruits), cotton (used to make your clothes), dairy (milk, butter, cheese, ice cream), meats, snacks (chips, sunflower seeds, nuts...not just almonds), beverages (wine, juices, milk) and much, much more... THEY ALL COME FROM HERE! 80-90% of the nation's food supply. Chances are, pretty much everything you ate today came from this area.
The entire area shouldn't have any farms to begin with, and the farmers should have to pay for that. Taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for this simply because the farms are stealing public resources.
Or better yet, stop sending all of the water from Northern California to the LA Basin and then the San Joaquin Valley won't be sinking anymore because our rivers will actually get the water they used to have that's now being piped down there.
@@tjs114 The San Joaquin Valley is sinking because the farmers are using the aquifer water to grow monsoon crops in the desert. That would still be happening whether or not you killed off southern california by taking away the canal water . The better solution is to stop allowing farmers in the San Joaquin Valley from drawing water from the aquifers to water monsoon crops.
The farmers are paying for it, ever heard of water rights? I would rather have food than landscaped interstates, green lawns and swimming pools in the city. Try flushing less and stop washing your car.
@@kevindahlberg7753 Farmers are NOT paying for it, you clearly don't know what water rights are. Those farms have been there for generations, they're not paying anything to suck out the water from the aquifer and because of the moronic water rights system in California it forces them to grow monsoon crops in the desert so that they keep their rights and with the rights the value of the land. If the stop growing monsoon crops the land becomes less valuable. You couldn't come up with a worse system if you tried. But here we are with farms destroying the aquifer until it runs out and the land becomes worthless anyways.
Then stop pumping so much water like have limits on groundwater because you have none right now. Also your a desert stop growing extremely thirsty crops alfalfa almonds cotton rice and lots more im not saying you grow why. So you don't fix your farms you continue this problem ill see you in 20 years when your replacing this one too.
Someone told me once the canal provides LA with, now, a portion of it's water and has always had the rights to the Sierra water shed dating back to the early 1900's
Hey knuckle heads, talk to hydro geologists before talking about "recharging" the ground water in your region. The water bearing strata isn't rechargeable.
Uhm, I live in the San Joaquin Valley, and I know that my small town paid a heap of money for geological studies about 10 years ago. We sit on limestone with large open 'pockets' that water collects in about 450 feet below us. And water sinks down through the sandy soil into the limestone which is full of holes and collects in those pockets. And we know the water collects down there because it's the source for the town's wells and they did a test the year we had tons of rain -- 2016 I think? Where they put some non-local trace minerals on a fallow field and 8 months later that trace worked down into the water table.
This whole planet is going to look like Mars when us humans get through destroying it. It is happening before your very eyes, albeit slowly but it is happening.
What do you expect? That used to be Tulare Lake. And when that megastorm that they reported on last week finally comes, you'll get the exact opposite situation.
If we give up Almonds it will damage any supply chain that uses almonds in their production. Also the cost of those businesses having to change their supply chains and find other foods to use instead. Though that's the same problem with not having enough water to towards other productivity.
@@Sixrabbbit Even if that is happening it will effect what they are eating there, which ends up effecting their ability to produce things. Which then effects importing to supply here.
And this aqueduct goes to Los Angeles. LA gets 30% of their water from this canal. When will Los Angeles work toward water independence. Seems like Los Angeles should be footing most of the bill for this project. This doesn't really benefit Norcal aside from we get some produce from the valley farmers.
I would rather the farmers grow food than the suburbs water lawns, fill swimming pools and cities landscape the interstate. Try flushing your toilets less and stop washing your cars.
@@kevindahlberg7753 I think both residential and agriculture have to change. The fact remains that California has supreme water rights and don't really have the incentive to change until the water is gone.
california is spending over hundred billions taxpayer's money to build a high speed rail in central valley connected nowhere. and now it's land is sinking. what is happening to california.
Great. The canal will be fixed, but everyone is starving. Wonderful plan. How about promote farming. Healthy agriculture is capable of preserving the aquifer.
The biggest thing is that the settlement is going on from compaction due to removal of ground water. Once that pore space is collapsed the ability to "recharge" it is completely gone so the original storage capacity is permanently decreased as far as groundwater storage. The ground wont rise from recharge but it will keep sinking due to mismanagement.
Their only hope is to reduce the rate of sinking in the future. It's questionable if this will happen so they're planning for a cushion with the new canal.
it's California, the people don't know or care what is happening, they'll ruin everything then just move to a new location to destroy, none of this matters
@@IQ-of-a-Goldfish I just love generalized grand statements like yours that are baseless and are bullshit.
Yep they’re screwed. I’ve been wondering if they’ve been sinking for many many years with all they’ve been pumping for decades.
everything in Califonia seems to suffer from mismanagement
Its not caused by the drought, its caused by over use of ground water
No, it is caused by environmentalist politics in Sacramento. There is water in the Delta, and more than 50% of whatever snowmelt comes down from the mountains goes out to the ocean.
Oh, and the Governor fan get off his ass, and appropriate Prop 1 funds to fix the irrigation systems and build dams. We all voted to pass Prop 1, but NOT A SINGLE THING has been done, and not ONE CENT has been spent
Seriously what's not to understand!!!
These dummies will say anything to avoid facing simple facts.
If you had a normal rainy season, you'd need to pull less water out of the ground, but those days might be gone. The same thing is happening to the Ogallala Aquifer. Every few years, wells have to be drilled deeper. Another option is to sit around and wait 6,000 years until the Ogallala Aquifer is refilled.
People have to get ground water because of the drought buddy
You sure danced around it to avoid saying that draining the underground aquifers is what's causing the sinking. But hey, let's "fix" the canals and continue to suck the ground dry.
collective insanity
With an ocean right over there. Gonna have to start sucking from the ocean. Maybe reconsider allowing 50% of California's fresh water running into the ocean for some smelt fish that can only live in brackish waters.
And almonds, are they worth all the damage to the land and the taxpayer expense to they can be shipped to Asia? I say, fuc* the almonds. Grow something less water intensive.
Just like the fossil fuel industry - "burn everything now, because we don't know what will remain in the future".
I thought they made it clear?
@@disbelief3911 They couldn't leave it out entirely, but they were careful to couch it very vague language and to pad it with lots of other issues. Only viewers who're already familiar with the facts are very likely to have picked it up.
So this project will be good for 12 years...great for the construction companies.
It's a way of extracting more money for the construction company from whomever is paying
Tulare County was once home to the Tulare Lake, the 9th largest lake in the U.S. which was drained for farming back in the 50s this has caused an environmental and ecological impact. Since the lake was drained farmers have started using ground water which is causing the subsidence of up to 27ft in some areas.
CA leading in man mad climate change
the lake was drained to make more farmland,, thats just stupid
Yup. We fucked this state.
You think that's bad, try TAFT. They pumped so damned much oil and water out the ENTIRE town sunk more than 15'.
Facts. They got rid of the natives in the area as well to farm. That area is meant to have water 🤦🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
Who would have thought that draining aquifer's would have a future effect ?
California Liberals don't have critical thinking skills. That's why they are California Liberals
What is “effect” they’d likely reply
it happened a decade ago with houses built on land around oil wells. all of a sudden the back yard dropped down into a hole.
@@louisehoff Wow, What was there first? The oil wells or the City? Asking for a friend I already know the answer
@@okaythankyoubyeee2501 signal hill, Long Beach CA
When you over pump an aquifer for many decades This is going to happen.
The Aquifer was used as an unlimited resource. Which it is not.
This is a very short term Band-Aid at best.
the california aquifer is the 3rd LARGEST in the world.. you cant over pump it
@@johnnyllooddte3415 You can over-pump any aquifer if pumping exceeds the long-term recharge rate. What vested interest do you have that you would spout drivel in public?
@@johnnyllooddte3415 It’s already overdrawn. Did you even listen to the news story? The shallow wells have run dry in many areas.
@@johnnyllooddte3415 watch
Use govt powers of seizure to apply WaterFX solar distillation - at 1/2 to 1/6 current water production costs - the tech was sold to an oil co that's sitting on it, after govt funding perfected it - use that to make water to sell farmers & ban pumping.
Maybe the Central Valley can’t sustain producing %85 of the world’s almonds while simultaneously restricting residents water and building new homes
Shhhhh, never interrupt your enemy while it is making a mistake.
Oh wait I'm glad somebody already made this point!!
And they complain they are paying too much money for their almond milk. They don't even know
Each almond takes a gallon of water to produce.
@Okay thank you byeee - It is very much a "shoot yourself in the foot while trying to run a marathon" to NOT point out the obvious problems. Everyone looks down on the Valley, but a VERY significant portion of food is grown there. If that collapses, effects will be tremendous.
The Valley is not anyone's enemy. And to root for the failure of a region which has such a large impact on everyone as a whole is both foolhardy and speaks volumes about one's ostrich selfishness.
Much of the San Joaquin Valley is sinking because the farmers are pumping all of the aquifers dry for flood irrigation. Why are they pumping them dry? Because all of the mountain source rivers that would replenish the groundwater are diverted into reservoirs that then push all of the water through those canals so people in the LA Basin and places like Palm Springs can live in deserts and have free flowing water.
70% of water is sent through the delta and allowed to flow right into the ocean unused in order to keep salinity levels at acceptable levels. A single dam along the delta to the bay area would fix all of this. But it would me allowing everything west of that dam to be salty ocean water, instead of brackish which is what we have now.
Those are some good theories
This is what happens when you try to over-populate in a dessert, when you try to over farm where water and soil nutrients are finite.
This was going to happen at some point, with or without climate change. Climate change is just moving that time table.
Everyone knew this was going to happen. Nothing was done to fix it. No water real water cuts. Increases instead of decreased farming. Didn't even try to secure water from other sources.
Agriculture is a much bigger water user than cities. The reasons the aquifers are being overused now are valuable water-intensive crops, especially almonds, and a twenty-year mega drought made worse by climate change.
When are people in the West going to realize that moving water around always have future negative effects?
This close to the ocean and they don't have enough water? I thought I saw an unlimited supply in the background. What a dilemma.
Go drink it.
San Diego has a water surplus, too bad the rest of the state cant follow this example...
This is not close to the ocean. Also, the salt in ocean water makes it useless for farming.
@@dzerkle closer than where they are using the canals to source water in many cases.
we need better infrastructure what a joke such a rich state
arid environments are perfect for massive farming operations.... could not be any better locations
The entire valley is a flood plain sport, you know what hat is? Problem is when you dam the rivers and slowey release the water into the ocean for no reason at all...
Haha but actually it's a great area for farming. Mild winters and flat land with great soil and rain and snow water from the nearby alpine mountains. There's plenty of water in California, it's just mismanaged. There's lots of good videos about that.
@@redhorsereincarnated5040 plenty of water in California is simply laughable. Cali has a population that exceeds what is replenished annually alone. Then add farming and industry. You have Land subsiding 1 foot a year to pumping water and Cali takes 40% of the Colorado River - please wake up
@@travisjohn4630 well buckey, you do realize that flood plains do not flood regularly in most cases and end up in an ocean. Whether you like it or not California is an arid environment, your feelings aside
@@nosoupforyou425 No Sporty, clearly you're a silly person who needs to start reading books. Here you are speaking in generalizations "most cases", no Sparky, we are not talking about "most cases" we're talking about a single case. Like I said, stop voting democrat.
And yet the farmers (self proclaimed environmental stewards) keep drilling more and deeper wells unchecked.
and they import more immigrants to use the water
@@yosemite735 No, they come on their own.
Lol the self-proclaimed environmental stewards that spray pesticide over miles of crop so that their almonds can look prettier when they sell it to China.
The truth is the world population exceeds the amount of food we are able to sustainably produce.
@@Lucy-vk1el It exceeds *any* resource. It’s time to slow this train down.
It's amazing how much we can trample our enviornment and out planet and we just shrug it off and put in a temporary "fix" the whole time ignoring the root cause of it. Great to see this massive project underway.... it'll be done just in time for the canal to go completely dry just like the reservoirs and hydropower damns are going dry right now. Brilliant ....just brilliant...
The area has been sinking from before 1949. So what does it have to do with "we can trample our environment & our planet" ?
@@Matlockization lol shortsighted punk the earth moves on a different scale then humans 60 years to the earth is less then a heartbeat for you. It may be slow but humans are killing the earth and this is just one example of it.
This situation reminds me Sam Kinison’s classic bit about people living in the desert and how to help them. It was a desert when people moved there. They diverted water from thousands of miles away to feed water intensive crops like almonds and avocados. The Earth keeps dropping hints like hey this isn’t working, but humans being human will just keep slapping bandaids on top of bandaids until the day comes when no bandaid can save them. So as Sam said, here is how to help them. Send them a U Hqul truck and tell them to MOVE OUT OF THE DESERT. ITS A DESERT. IT WILL ALWAYS BE A DESERT. THATS WHY NOTHING GROWS. MOVE OUT OF THE DESERT! AAAHHHHHH! If people were meant to live in a desert then there would be water and food there and it wouldn’t be called a desert.
Learn some history Buddy, it was a flood plain. You know what that is kid? Clearly not, look it up Sport. Stop voting democrat Guy.
@@travisjohn4630 you clearly show your ignorance. Don’t know what voting democrat has to do with people building canals to direct water to a bunch of bone dry desert. Most of Southern California and Arizona are in fact deserts. Learn how to read a topo map. If it was a flood plain they wouldn’t be relying on a canal to bring the water there. Utah wants to get in on the action and build a new pipeline to run water from the river to St George, which is also a desert city. Keep dreaming. The water will run out, it’s only a matter of time and the desert will return back to what it always was, a desert. Another whiny Republican blinded by their own ignorance. I’ll run my sprinklers for a couple hours extra for you this morning.
@@travisjohn4630 you said it yourself. It “was” a floodplain. Tell me the last time it flooded. The problem is growing water intensive crops in an arid environment, using more water than is naturally replaced in an average year. So keep on blaming “dUh LiBtaRdZ” all you want, you’re just sticking your head in the sand “sport”.
Typical selfish millennial thinking
@@keithadams812 typical boomer blaming the younger generation for the mess they made. Your response is that of someone who’s mad because they’re wrong but they’re too stupid to see even know why they’re mad.
Same thing is hitting the Ogallala Aquifer. In a decade they'll have almost entire states pumped dry.
still a lot of cognitive dissonance
We literally have “THE OFFICE” running California, such a comedy of a job our Leaders of this State are doing…
_recharge the ground tables_ damn I’m so thankful to be in Alaska and have amazing water straight out of the well
Can't remember the last time I ran the water while brushing my teeth. It must be nice.
even alaska has to recharge its wells
johnny llooddte You’ve clearly never been to Alaska 😂
Send us some of those Alaskan fruits and vegetables please.....
Not sure if you’re being sarcastic, but you’d be surprised with the variety of stuff we grow.
imagine that.... in the desert no less.
The San Joaquin Valley wasn't a desert until all of the mountain range originating rivers like the Merced and Tuolumne were diverted into water storage which is then shipped by that giant canal down to the actual desert known as the LA Basin and the Inland Empire.
@@tjs114 San Joaquin, California gets 9 inches of rain, on average, per year.
Most experts agree that a desert is an area of land that receives no more than 25 centimeters (10 inches) of precipitation a year.
end of story.... sorry
@@tjs114 ok they had a big lake back in the day but they're absolutely a desert.
Stop referring to it as a drought.
Calling it a drought implies it will pass soon.
This is the new climate. Understanding that will allow people to make meaningful changes sooner.
Been saying this for years but instead of considering that option, the denial continues.
this is the result of overuse of ground water in a desert
I study hydraulic civil engineering, this is great to watch infrastructure being erected, the thing is once the capillaries that allow the grounds permeability, are being squashed when they lack the presence of liquid and then lack of support for substructures, foundations, abutments for the canal etc causing subsidence,
A non related fact that’s ironic, it’s easier to achieve a hermetic grade seal in a water pipe than a pneumatic pipe.
I sure hope that if you ever find work as an engineer who had to race to finish a water works project that you remember to wear your racing helmet on your head.
Use govt powers of seizure to apply WaterFX solar distillation - at 1/2 to 1/6 current water production costs - the tech was sold to an oil co that's sitting on it, after govt funding perfected it - use that to make water to sell farmers & ban pumping.
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Whose ever idea it was to do this should be in J A I L
A chunk of the valley pumps the water out of underground aquifers, that's causes the land to sink, and especially during drought it gets worse, this project will help carry the water to where it's needed a project like any project takes years to plan and do. Just like the new hwy 132 connection 4-5 decades later it's getting finished, you don't just bulldoze and build, it takes time and planning especially for mega projects like these.
It will be.completed in 5 months if it's in China. They were.the one.who built US railroad. Just saying.
@@donniebunkerboi9975 yeah if you want to override a private citizen’s right to land ownership, I mean eminent domain everything if you want too lol so we make compromises it’s the reason why large projects take so long, the Central Valley provides a large amount of food not just to the country but to large portion of the world also. Progress is nice but we also have to balance it with the farmland that exist here.
Would not have to if the state would release more water from the Delta. Screw that damn smelt!
@@andytang04 Did the world ask California to feed it?
@@stevenboldt6489 California, land of the very water-needing alf-alfa, grown in a desert so it can be sent to China.
This is some of the best news I've heard in some while
You want to talk about water in Kern county let's talk about valley water Management and the oil fields out off highway 33 and how they ran injection Wells into the aquifer and they are pumping oil-filled wastewater into the ground out of Bill Kirby road and highway 33
Won’t the new one slowly sink too? If they don’t fox the problem?
Yeah, we need to force Los Angeles to become water independent. That would make this project a lot easier to manage.
Yes. This is a temporary fix.
Yes. A very expensive temporary fix at best. And making concrete creates a lot of CO2.
A couple years ago there was good amount of rain but instead of keeping it in their reservoir, they released it and they're panicking about how they don't have enough water. 🙄
Problem, reaction, solution
We had a bad drought in the 70's and learned nothing from it , instead of building more reservoirs to hold water during the wet years we saved field mice and flowers. 45 years later no new reservoirs added but the population has risen by over 20 million people.
The sinking Sounds like a win from where I’m sitting
I worked on that canal a few years ago. We did sysmic retrofits for some of the bridges over it.
Paid for by the people not the state
The drought isn't causing the sinking, it is the pumping of the water that is causing the sinking.
It's NOT A DROUGHT ! ! !
We have been in the process of ARIDIFICATION for over a decade now.
"Aridification is the process of a region becoming increasingly arid, or dry. It refers to long term change, rather than seasonal variation. It is often measured as the reduction of average soil moisture content." Wikipedia
this is primarily due to overuse of water resources in a desert. they are pumping too much ground water. self-inflicted environmental damage going on in CA.
Should use a desalination plant to pump water into the aquifers and send the brine water to the Great Salt Lake to cover the ground and bury the arsenic dust threatening the residents near it. Might not bring the ground up but might slow or stop it from continuing down… this would also help all the towns whose wells went dry from the agricultural and non potable water user to get water without having to go through extraordinary means. If we were smart we’d use the excess solar and wind power to run the desalination plants..🤷♂️
Bad idea, the brine from desalination is detrimental to oceans environment, and once the land subsides from ground water removal their is no recharging it.
LMAO.....Commiefornia doesn't have enough electricity to run a desalination plant
Amazing Wilson love everything you do
I understand that the aquifer in California's Central Valley is becoming depleted and has begun to sink. That's a serious situation, considering how much food for the nation comes from that area.
Many many years ago Devon Nunez made an amazing video about all of this .
Yeah I remember that he came to my school and gave out badass Keychains I'm not joking lol
No more bridges? Is that permanent? That's going to cause some major logistic hurdles if so. As someone who used to drive as a courier between Fresno and The Oakland Bay Area....I remember quite a few bridges.
I heard from good sources that they are replacing the bridges with big catapults.
I got lost in that area while driving south to Mexico. I was thinking "Wow look at all these nice roads and bridges going-nowhere and luscious cool water in the canals, and almond trees, I was wondering where they got so many almonds that they could milk them." It was amazing.
Yeah, that struck me as pretty absurd and unrealistic.
@@Mike-bm6cf There's no siphon w/o a gradient varient.
There will be road crossings, just no bridges. They are now building syphon constructions because they cause less trouble with further sinking. Syphons aren't perfect and sinking will cause some construction cost, but you can usually fix them, even in extreme situations where your road ends up below your water level. That is why they switch from bridges to syphons.
Y’all gonna have to let it go back to desert like it started
I would suggest you build it deeper than that and much higher than that. Call it a gut feeling
Wait hold on you mean it was a bad idea to set up a giant population in a desert?
Yes.
What a drag, sorry to hear that, in the early seventies I used to water ski that canal with my dad's pickup. 55 miles long nonstop at one point. A buddy of mine didn't believe I could do 75 on one water ski so we took his new mustang Mach 2 and I tied onto the bumper. He had to go back and tell all our friends that I actually did it at 75. We got busted by the canal police that day also right after that. The cop asked me if I was crazy and I told him no, just fast. They actually just let us walk. Best water skiing for a hundred miles
I thought the water tables under the central valley were mostly clay, and that when the water is pumped out and the land sinks, it's impossible to re-charege them? Also: Doesn't almost all that water just go to L.A.?
every aquifer is rechargeable
@@johnnyllooddte3415 Yeah. No.
When groundwater is pumped out of certain underground aquifers faster than it is replaced-particularly those in fine clay or silt soils-the aquifer loses the hydraulic pressure that supported it. Sediment falls in on itself, causing the aquifer to collapse and the ground to sink. Pumping groundwater helped California weather an epic drought, but that comes with consequences. Once collapsed, lost space in a clay aquifer cannot be refilled, meaning valuable freshwater storage space is lost forever.
Several area of the San Joaquin Valley sit on limestone-- Tracy, Manteca, Ripon, Escalon, Riverbank, Oakdale, Lindon, all the way up to just before Sonora. I know there's more between Modesto and Merced.
@@tjs114 I assume those are areas that haven't subsided with ground water removal.
@@TouchingClothProd Is that science from a reputable source? If so, can you share that? Cos the way I see it is that any 'sediment collapse' would be due to clay shrinking once water has been removed, that would then create voids, which could then collapse. If water were to be reintroduced then the clay would absorb it and expand
Lets build a new canal right along side the one that is sinking!..Brilliant!!
They explain it to you... and you still don't get it. Not so brilliant on your part.
Thanks for the unregulated agriculture pumping, California Water Resources Board. WTF. We're in a drought and Big Ag is still using over 80% of the state's water for high-water-intensive flood crops like nut trees, rice and cattle. WE HAVE PLENTY OF WATER - we just need to mange/restrict the crops these wasteful groundwater pumpers are allowed to cultivate and the means by which they're allowed to irrigate. And hey everyone in a metro area: did you know the majority of water customers in the central Valley have no meters? They pay a flat fee (a tiiiiiiny percentage of what most metered customers pay) for *unlimited* amounts of water...
did they say no bridges over it?
wtf.
how will you get to the other side?
An amazing trick isn't it? You build a canal parallel to the old canal and I guess you just leave all travelers stranded in between the canals.
@@garychristison763 cool
It's crazy how much water desert farming requires. Maybe the time has come to put down the almond milk.
Alfalfa uses the most.
almond milk is bullshit anyway
It’s obvious you know nothing about his area. If you did you’d know this is not a desert.
@@Q37C37tell us all about it wilford, what exactly is this area?
80-90% of this nation's food supply comes from here. Guess you want to starve to death.
when i was a kid the geology teacher said California was going to break away from the continent and float to Hawaii
One Phenomenon, two Phenomena
Tell the truth Southern California needs more water
Just steal it from other states.
@@stevenboldt6489 great idea.
@@stevenboldt6489 sign me up lol. We more important than other states. Lol jk
Southern California needs a lot less people!
So this construction project looks like it’s moving along. What about the high-speed rail? They seem to have hit a stumbling block.
Stumbling block paid by airline lobbyists
Lmao
Not a Rick role
Truth Hammer!!!!
Lol the high speed rail aka freeways full of EVs by 2035
Time for the canal from Canada to Mexico. What's holding up the SHOW?
Just 5 years ago they had too much rain and the Orville dam was going to overflow and collapse. Why didn't the state pump any of that water back into the ground and restore the water table?
You cannot pump water into the ground, it is a slow process to leach back into the aquifer.
@@deadtome44 Sure you can, we just frack the central valley lol \s
Weird. Almost like that massive almond tree field right next to it might have something to do with it? Maybe stop growing half the countries food in a desert? That would make too much sense.
Try maybe stop growing water intensive crops? Naaah, the noise pollution from the whining farmers would be deafening.
I agree. More people need to realize that the Central Valley has continued to expand year over year it has the water increased? No it’s actually gone down. I am 54 years old and have seen the entire Corredor of Highway five turn from cotton fields to grapes. It’s unbelievable. You can see the people that are screwed in some kind of weird water right because their trees are dead. They were stupid enough to plant almond trees. I am so tired of Central Valley, right wing, conservative bellyachers win the federal government made them absolutely filthy rich
It is not just almonds that are grown here.
80-90% of the nation's food supply is grown here...almost every variety of fruits and vegetables, cotton, and more are grown here...
But, if you do not like our food, then I guess you can starve to death.
The central valley isn't a desert though?
@@armandobroncas4124 its a desert climate manipulated by humans,
The increase on draining underground aquifers to sustain the current rate of water use in a drought will accelerate the creation of voids beneath the surface. And concentrated aquifer extraction is usually always in and around population centers: Sinkholes might be the next new thing to appear where it all drops at once and the extra weight of a Town for instants with some trucks rumbling through might be enough to cause the entire town to collapse into a sinkhole.
That's not how geology works. The physics of your proposed scenario make no sense and there isn't a single example in history of anything remotely similar ever happening.
Battle of the pseudo-geologists....right here on UA-cam!!!!!!🤣
ahahaha california aquifers are 1000s of feet deep, there will be no sink holes
Ca doesn't contain the correct geology such as the karst in Florida for sinkholes of the nature you propose.
The weight of a town?!.. ha ha ha.. buildings are mostly space and weigh a fraction of the first few of feet of dirt they sit on. and the 'entire town'??!! - you need to stop believing the horseshit that Hollywood feeds you in disaster movies..
Will this sinking affect more earthquakes?
Probably caused by tectonic activity
Connecticut was going brown until it committed to planting trees. The forest canopy shaded the ground, and built up the aquifers.
As per the previous comment that it takes a gallon of water to create a single almond: 1. Water is renewable, 2. Those trees produce oxygen while drinking water. Win, win.
That area uses to be a desert, btw.
That area actually used to be a lake, not a desert. We’ve turned it into a desert.
Swing and a miss the central valley used to be a lake.
@@armandobroncas4124 Just like parents
The comedy of errors known as California never stops delivering.
As a Kalifornia resident, I was here when it was great. Today, it hurts when I laugh.
and then you realize it's happening everywhere even in the midwest (Ogallala) and your youtube comment makes you look like the fool you are
@@gettinglucky Your dreaming
@@gettinglucky Yeah but California seems to concentrate the issues and is drastically affected by them
So a switch over, from a canal to an aqueduct. But what will deter the aqueduct from sinking?
Did people think that farming in the desert was never going to catch up lmao
"Time is the only resource for which no creature may bargain..."
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--Diamond Dragons (book 1)
The way God likes to play jokes on the human race: as soon as they finish with the new canal the drought will be over and the old one will work just fine.
Book of Job
In some places the lord is see as just a jokester. Same old same old, make your own miracle beliefs for me. We are just little humans trying to control nature. It will never be done, better off to pray we get it done better than before 😆
The old one is permanently messed up
Looks like a way to create a little reservoir for hard times
Thanks Mulholland.
The State of California should be building desalination plants and water pipelines to supply these areas with water as I see it.
Nah. Just suck the Colorado River dry and worry about it later.
Kalifornia does not have the electricity to run de-sal plants. EV mandate is threatened for 2035 so electricity shortage will get worse. We stupidly are retiring natural gas capacity just as demand is ramping up. There is not enough solar and wind to replace fossil.
ahahahahahhaahahahahhaa
Desalination is incredibly expensive. You're talking about spending massive amounts of money to subsidies these farms that SHOULD NOT EXIST IN THE FIRST PLACE. They're growing monsoon crops in the desert by stealing a public resource.
@@2011blueman How much do you think building and now rebuilding these canals cost?
How much do you think not having water cost?
Why is California taking most of the water out of Lake Mead when we have an ocean on the whole west side of California that could supply all of the water we could ever need?
Plus, there are now solar-powered desalination plants.
Paid for by the TAXPAYERS
Subsidence is everywhere in the state. Wells drilled 1000 feet deep did it
That's quite a huge investment for something that will inevitably sink as well.
Is that why they are letting Chicago go to the dumps? Since it’s sinking as well
@@ml-jt6eg Possibly.
Desalination
It’s a government project that gives kickbacks. So no, no actual solution will ever be devised.
The first Desal plant is underway (in Antioch, I think). Doesn't mean it'll be done anytime soon, but it's underway.
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@@Novastar.SaberCombat huh I thought there were already desalination plants in california
They just need the POWER for it next. Ha ha
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
The great Tulare Lake was the biggest lake this side of Mississippi in the USA located central California drained by farmers Boswell to gov brown ECT.. in the lake bottom out west towards the ocean Kettleman City looks like Baron Wasteland.. from years of fertilizer use build up and no water..
What Californians don't know, a lot of new construction is being added every month. It's going to be a shet show for energy.
What are they going to do with the old canal race on it?
The Aquifer is going dry from population increase, Drought, it won’t get better until the waist stops.
the water in this canal is for farming only it takes water from pine flat dam to the farmers in kern county
itill will when you have to pay . 90 plus buck per liter of water.
If California suddenly broke off and sank into the ocean it would be a great day for America.
That's gotta be the stupidest shit I've ever heard that's like saying Texas should turn back into the swamp it used to be and no one would miss it.
so how do u pump water into compacted concrete?
That canal carry’s water to Southern CA & that is part of the problem. The amount of food grown in Tulare County needs to be the first priority and any additional pumping for outside areas makes no sense as it only exacerbates the problem. What are some alternatives.
And yet I see these huge fields of almonds which are known to use huge quantities of water and is anyone stopping them from planting more?
Nope…..China needs these nuts
It is not just almonds that are grown there. Farming is a multi-billion dollar industry.
Tomatoes, corn, pomegranates, grapes/raisins/wine, lettuce, citrus (oranges, lemons, grapefruits), cotton (used to make your clothes), dairy (milk, butter, cheese, ice cream), meats, snacks (chips, sunflower seeds, nuts...not just almonds), beverages (wine, juices, milk) and much, much more... THEY ALL COME FROM HERE!
80-90% of the nation's food supply. Chances are, pretty much everything you ate today came from this area.
get ready for higher taxes
Don't worry. Bezos and Musk will start paying their fair share of taxes.☺️☺️
Bend over they're going in dry....
Will it stop a mega flood like what what happened in 1860-61, and possibly the 1700"s and beyond.
Nothing can stop that. It’s just a matter of time.
If no bridges then how do you get across?
The entire area shouldn't have any farms to begin with, and the farmers should have to pay for that. Taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for this simply because the farms are stealing public resources.
Or better yet, stop sending all of the water from Northern California to the LA Basin and then the San Joaquin Valley won't be sinking anymore because our rivers will actually get the water they used to have that's now being piped down there.
@@tjs114 The San Joaquin Valley is sinking because the farmers are using the aquifer water to grow monsoon crops in the desert. That would still be happening whether or not you killed off southern california by taking away the canal water . The better solution is to stop allowing farmers in the San Joaquin Valley from drawing water from the aquifers to water monsoon crops.
Just ban food and stop the climate discrimination against pregnant men.
The farmers are paying for it, ever heard of water rights? I would rather have food than landscaped interstates, green lawns and swimming pools in the city. Try flushing less and stop washing your car.
@@kevindahlberg7753 Farmers are NOT paying for it, you clearly don't know what water rights are. Those farms have been there for generations, they're not paying anything to suck out the water from the aquifer and because of the moronic water rights system in California it forces them to grow monsoon crops in the desert so that they keep their rights and with the rights the value of the land. If the stop growing monsoon crops the land becomes less valuable. You couldn't come up with a worse system if you tried. But here we are with farms destroying the aquifer until it runs out and the land becomes worthless anyways.
Then stop pumping so much water like have limits on groundwater because you have none right now.
Also your a desert stop growing extremely thirsty crops alfalfa almonds cotton rice and lots more im not saying you grow why.
So you don't fix your farms you continue this problem ill see you in 20 years when your replacing this one too.
Someone told me once the canal provides LA with, now, a portion of it's water and has always had the rights to the Sierra water shed dating back to the early 1900's
Those farms are single handily draining the water left in California and Lake Mead.
Most of our water gets dumped into the ocean
Hey knuckle heads, talk to hydro geologists before talking about "recharging" the ground water in your region. The water bearing strata isn't rechargeable.
That's okay, they can switch to solar.
@@chillwill5080 Or they can switch to thinking with their heads instead of thinking with their wallets.
@@mikelouis9389 Their heads are stuck up their rears, so that's not likely.
Uhm, I live in the San Joaquin Valley, and I know that my small town paid a heap of money for geological studies about 10 years ago. We sit on limestone with large open 'pockets' that water collects in about 450 feet below us. And water sinks down through the sandy soil into the limestone which is full of holes and collects in those pockets. And we know the water collects down there because it's the source for the town's wells and they did a test the year we had tons of rain -- 2016 I think? Where they put some non-local trace minerals on a fallow field and 8 months later that trace worked down into the water table.
@@tjs114 Which town? Not all the Valley is on limestone.
This whole planet is going to look like Mars when us humans get through destroying it. It is happening before your very eyes, albeit slowly but it is happening.
people think extinction but it's going to be more like living on tatooine or jakku but no space travel
What do you expect? That used to be Tulare Lake. And when that megastorm that they reported on last week finally comes, you'll get the exact opposite situation.
huh...what are you sinking about?
It’s not the drought, it’s all the people you’ve let hop, skip, and jump over the boarder. This is all fine by me, let them sink.
GIVE UP YOUR STUPID ALMONDS AND LET EVERYONE HAVE ENOUGH WATER
Here here, I blame bougie almond milk lol.
If we give up Almonds it will damage any supply chain that uses almonds in their production. Also the cost of those businesses having to change their supply chains and find other foods to use instead. Though that's the same problem with not having enough water to towards other productivity.
Don't most of them get sent to China?
@@Sixrabbbit Even if that is happening it will effect what they are eating there, which ends up effecting their ability to produce things. Which then effects importing to supply here.
It isn’t just almonds! California feeds the world
I still believe that agriculture on mass scale is not going away. Not until they drain every last drop of water to irrigate the almond groves.
And this aqueduct goes to Los Angeles. LA gets 30% of their water from this canal. When will Los Angeles work toward water independence. Seems like Los Angeles should be footing most of the bill for this project. This doesn't really benefit Norcal aside from we get some produce from the valley farmers.
I would rather the farmers grow food than the suburbs water lawns, fill swimming pools and cities landscape the interstate. Try flushing your toilets less and stop washing your cars.
@@kevindahlberg7753 I think both residential and agriculture have to change. The fact remains that California has supreme water rights and don't really have the incentive to change until the water is gone.
Pipes are smarter and a lot faster and eliminates evaporation and makes easy turnouts.
A news article that doesn’t interject the standard “exasperated by man made climate change” is shocking.
They don't need to. The canal and the groundwater shortage are man-made already
With any luck the whole state will soon sink into the ocean.
Small correction. It's being paid for by the citizens of the state. At peek cost. Probably should have done something when they knew about it.
Thanks for spending the time to create and share this content 🙏🏾
california is spending over hundred billions taxpayer's money to build a high speed rail in central valley connected nowhere. and now it's land is sinking. what is happening to california.
Bye bye cali
Give the land and water back to the tachi-yokut tribes . Refill Tulare lake
if the thing is leaking, then it is returning some of the water to the underground water table.
Great. The canal will be fixed, but everyone is starving. Wonderful plan. How about promote farming. Healthy agriculture is capable of preserving the aquifer.