California is experiencing a major drought that has continued on from climate change. Like Felicia Marcus, chairwoman of the State Water Resources Control Board said, (“ In the cities of a changed California, brown is the new green”). People are having to change their lifestyles because of this, such as giving some of their lawn away to be able to sustain droughts. Basically, trading their regular grass for artifical turf. It’s a sad sight, when people of the areas see people and companies growing things that use so much of their water. Their water supply has been cut down (according to the natives of California) by farmers using it to grow almonds, alfalfa, and even raising cattle. Growing alfalfa (“consumes about 20 percent of the states …show more content…
Sadly, there really couldn’t ever be a vote on this subject matter to end it, because water interest companies really want to interact the people’s choices while this should be a whole states’ worries with everyone included. Some things are already happening, like the (“Low value, high-water crops disappearing”). In the absence of the people voting, the free market could end up as the decider. While water is getting the recognition it needs, not all water suppliers are. The poorer water districts would be left out, while the rich ones get all the clean water. (“ The enviornment is already taking a big hit in this drought”). So, all in all everyone should be supportive of this legislation to bring water back into the resevoirs and not waste it on anything not needed or polluted. And so my statement was confirmed, when Ellen Hanak said, (“ My sense is that Californians are pretty supportive of both a strong agricultural economy and a healthy enviornment”). Without a high budget though, these new resevoir projects aren’t going to happen. It’s not going to fade away without work, something californians have managed to say they do a lot