Not that anything is going to be done about it for the foreseeable future, with Captain Fuckwit in charge.
Not true! He’ll implement the Federal Forest Raking Program and solve this problem forever!
FFRP
The sound he makes when he makes boom boom in his diaper
Only to prevent wildfires around Mar-a-Lago and the compounds of other billionaires who donate suitcases full of cash to him.
Thanks, stay-at-home lefties!
We’ve done nothing and are out of ideas.
Protect the profits!
California has done quite a bit on this. Local ordinances and state laws, and federal pressure. It’s not getting the help needed.
writes a meteorologist and climate journalist
This is barely one step removed from “claims” and “warns”. There’s no need to separate the source from the news in this headline except to distance the outlet from according this disaster to climate change.
There’s a link at the top of the site called “Climate crisis” and the Guardian is often accused of being too left wing.
Y’know people don’t even read the articles, right?
You want them to click on this, read the article, then find and click on a separate link and then find what the key point is in that second article or articles and relate it to this one? That’s not good UI design. That’s terrible journalism.
The Guardian is leftish, yes, but that’s not the point. The point is that wording things in such a way as to deliberately obfuscate the deeper story is what’s wrong. That’s not a “left wing” thing that’s a corporate thing, that’s a “both sides” thing and it was due to end 40 years ago.
I thought it was because Gavin Newsom hordes water like he’s Immortan Joe.
That doesn’t happen. This is a favorite talking point of farmers who live in a desert in the middle of California when the government doesn’t subsidize their farms as much as they want for more profits.
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/06/colorado-river-deal-west-water/
Apparently farmers have been paying $20 for an acre foot of water since… 2011.
That is about 325,900 gallons of water, for $20.
https://www.ladwp.com/account/customer-service/water-rates/schedule-residential
Meanwhile, if you live in a house in LA, you are charged $2.095 for every 748 gallons of water.
325,900 / $20 = 16,295 gallons of water for $1
748 / $2.095 ~= 357 gallons of water for $1
So…farmers use 80% of the water, and are charged 45.6x less per gallon than an LA resident.
Or, a farmer pays about ¢2.2, or $0.022 to recieve the same amount of water an LA resident pays $1.00 for.
Literally pennies on the dollar level subsidy.
Hey now, stealing water from the Owens Valley ain’t cheap /s
Fucking farmer propaganda. The Newsom isn’t responsible for this bun fuckery. That’s entirely the talking point of the giant corporate farms paying for ads to sway the idiots. The reality is that farms pay pennies for multiple Olympic sized pools worth of water. A home in the state that doesn’t dump water all over dirt and do nothing for months has to pay a hundred, at least, each month. Farms need to pay their fair share.
Or maybe don’t grow stupid shit like almonds and alfalfa where the majority is exported
if it’s an export crop, it’s like exporting the water itself.
The reality is that farms pay pennies for multiple Olympic sized pools worth of water.
My whole comment doing the math was inspired by me hearing people saying stuff like this, thinking it must be hyperbole…
Your statement technically is, an olympic swimming pool is about 660k gallons…
That would cost a farmer about $40.
But it would cost an LA resident about $1850.
Fucking bonkers.
Like… I can see some level of subsidy, but not nearly 50x.
It’s only 50x of the water that residences are consuming is properly priced. Other places with much more water available pay more than Southern and central Californians pay.
If you’re looking for a legit California water villain, check out billionaire agligarch Stewart Resnick.
Aren’t farmers the salt-of-the-earth types, just trying to feed our population?
More like the common clay of the new west
Oh…morons.
