California needs to regulate the use of groundwater and make a law, groundwater can be very dangerous and has many downsides. Farmers should try to save and use other sources of water and overall stop the use of groundwater. If we keep using ground water at this paste then we will eventually run out and the ground will continue to decrease. Making a law will allow the ground to renew itself. California needs to limit the amount of groundwater by making a law to force farmers to try to save the water and use desalinization and stormwater harvesting. California does not know how much groundwater is left. We need to know how much is left because eventually we will run out. If we run out then farmers most likely will not have a backup plan , …show more content…
Once we use the groundwater we should wait till it can renew itself. While farmers are waiting for the groundwater to renew itself, we can use stormwater harvesting. Stormwater harvesting is when we collect the rainwater through plants and refuse it. If the rain water is saved, it can provide enough water to irrigate farmer's land throughout the dry season. But farmers often do not want to go through with stormwater harvesting because these techniques can be labor intensive or farmers lack the necessary capital and training. Another good source of water that we can use is a Desalination plant. Desalination is a process through taking out the salt and other chemicals from saltwater, Desalination is a great idea because after all the ocean covers more than 70 percent of our planet. Desalination is important in a world where freshwater resources are decreasing by population growth, development, droughts, climate change and more. But the reason why there isn't millions of desalination plants is because desalination has many down sides. Desalination is expensive. A thousand gallons of freshwater from a desalination plant costs the average US consumer $2.50 to $5, compared to $2 for conventional freshwater. Desalination also takes up lots of energy. Desalination plants take up …show more content…
This is very important, every little bit of water counts towards healthy crops. One way farmers can do this is to capture and store the water. Farmers can do this by building their own pond. Building there own pond can capture the rainwater, this will go into storage for the dry seasons. Other way is to grow crops that grow the best in your area. This will save some water because many farmers try to grow certain crops that do not grow well the area that the farm is in, this will result in the crops needing a lot more water, which is wasting water. Instead farmers can grow more crops that grow well in the area that they are in. Another way to save water is to go organic this will save lots of water, the Rodale Institute found that corn grown in organic fields had 30 percent greater yields than conventional fields in years of drought when going organic. Another way to save lots of water is to cover your crops. This allows water to more easily go through the soil and improves its water-holding capacity. A 2012 survey of 750 farmers tested by North Central Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education saw that fields planted with cover crops were 11 to 14 percent more productive than conventional fields during years of