...California has been widely known across the globe for its great agriculture. As its main source for economic growth, California prides itself on its ability to produce mass amounts of crops in order to serve our nation. The backbone of everything that goes on in California is built around the Californian farmers’ ability to produce crops. As of late, the task of producing crops has become more difficult than ever for farmers to accomplish. Farming, and producing crops, has become increasingly difficult for farmers in California due to the scarcity of water. With little access to fresh water for their crops, farmers in California are having a hard time maintaining their fruits, vegetables, livestock, and nuts. Water has been hard to come by...
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...Water Crisis Impact in California Monica Mois Essentials of College Writing/COMM/215 October 6, 2014 Carolyn Geiser Water Crisis Impact in California Due to the lack of rain in the past few years, and particularly in the last few months, California faces severe drought. This is the worst drought in more than one hundred years. The impact of California drought affects community, agriculture, organic ranchers, and dairy farmers. Because of these facts, the United States must rethink the way it uses water. Californians alone are asked to reduce their water usage by twenty percent to prevent water waste. Communities, Agriculture, Organic Ranchers and Dairy Farmers Many communities in California struggle with shortage of drinking water. One example is “the small community of Cameron Creek Colony in Tulare County is struggling due to severe drought. About ten percent of its residents have no access to water because their wells have run dry. Others have only intermittent access” (USDA, 2014). In other communities, residents are urged to avoid wasting water. The Waterboards.ca.gov (2014) website has a list of emergency water conservation regulations stating that every citizen is prohibited to use potable water to wash sidewalks and driveway, to use hoses with no shut off nozzles to wash their cars, water the lawn more than two times a week, and reduce the amount of watering time for each station using an automatic sprinkler system. Residents could face...
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...Water is probably one of the most important things to man, but what would happen if we ran out? The current drought in California is affecting many people’s lives and it is slowly just becoming worse. Although, it may not only be affecting California. An excerpt from the Article “Water Controversies Boil Over” states: “In the coming year, 46 nations risk violent conflict over water and climate-related crises, and 56 other countries face political instability, according to a study by International Alert, a British advocacy group. The United Nations says water wars may be more likely in the future than wars over oil. Fights over water-some small, some as large as California—are occurring across the globe. …Solving these conflicts requires us to accept that water does not belong to anyone. It belongs to all.” (Weiser, 5) Weiser here is stating that California is place going through a lack of water....
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...Even though some would argue that one of the reasons for the California’s drought 2014-2015 is not global warming, Stanford Research proved that the abnormal atmospheric conditions connected with California’s current critical drought have most chances to occur under today’s global warming conditions rather than in the climate that existed before human released large amounts of gases and pollution due to industrialization. B) California’s drought 2014-2015- “man-made disaster”. Unarguably, human actions impact natural water resources, and this section will illustrate that drought that California experiences in 2014-2015 is a “man-made disaster”. According to Zimmerman, M. (2015), misguided environmental policies were one of the causes of California’s...
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...tripled since the 1970s, and the annual number of fires over 10,000 acres is seven times what it was then” (Fraser). This means that as the increasing temperature from global warming and the drought increase so will the fires happening in the southwest. As areas of trees become drier than they have been, there will be a easier chance for them to be set on fire. Also because of the dryer climate the fire will have an easier time in turning in to an wildfire. Doyle Rice stated that, “Droughts are expected to become hotter, more severe, and more frequent” (Rice). What Rice is saying is that in the future droughts are going to be more extreme and hotter. If the temperature gets hotter then there will be an even...
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...The Californian Drought Crisis This section of the paper will outline the current Californian drought crisis, taking the position that climatically, it is a combined result of lower than average precipitation and higher than average temperatures and that the population, in residential, commercial and agricultural settings place an excessive demand upon the state’s water supply. Working together, these stressors have a collective effect in causing the drought crisis in California since 2012. 2015 marks California’s fourth consecutive year of severe drought. The last two years alone have been the driest and warmest individual years since records began in 1895, with ten of the last fourteen experiencing below normal levels of precipitation (Howitt, et al., 2015) (Mann & Gleick, 2015). From autumn 2013 to spring 2014, central and southern California experienced some of the lowest precipitation on record, it is said that the impacts...
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...As of August 14, 82 percent of the state of California was in extreme drought. As California entered its fourth year of record-breaking drought, it was met with extremely parched landscapes. CBS News reports reveal that, “According to an aerial survey conducted by the U.S. Forest Service in April, about 12 million trees have died in California forestlands in the past year because of extreme drought.” Dead trees along with plant life in severe condition are seen throughout the Los Padres National Forest. These dead trees add another element to the hazards of the drought by threatening the dry landscape with the possibility of intense wildfires. On January 17, Governor Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency for the state of California. This...
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...1950s. The advent of inexpensive motorized lawn mowers and fertilizing chemicals made lawns a reality for the middle class. America has over 50,000 square miles of grass in cultivation. Now in 2014, California is facing a drought like none seen before in modern times. Crops are withering, lakes are running dry, fires are catching everywhere and yet, around every corner, I see manicured lawns. Vast expanses of nothing but healthy, beautiful, allergy inducing grass. It’s irresponsible, and harmful to our environment and economy. The 2013-14 rainfall season is on track to be the driest in 434 years, according to Lynn Ingram, a paleo-climatologist at UC Berkley. The concern generated by this drought brought together a group of emergency planners and water managers for an event known as the “California Drought Outlook Forum” on February, 20 2014 in Sacramento, California. They determined that the water outlook for the state was similar to the droughts in the 1970s. However, our water obligations have increased greatly in the following decades. Marty Hoering of the NOAA states, “The stress created by the current failed rains is more severe than for similar rainfall deficits 40 years earlier.” The central focus for this concern is the substantial agricultural business that California sustains, from avocados to almonds to pistachios, a number of crops are grown in California’s fertile central valleys. A recent report estimated that indirect and direct losses to agriculture would amount...
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...its arid and semi-arid environment, as well as prolonged and sometimes severe droughts. Drought is the prolonged and abnormal deficiency of moisture with the concomitant decline in runoff to a level significantly lower than usual (Guldin 1989). The history of droughts in Wyoming has been uncertain in the past, but recent studies of tree rings in the Big Horn Basin of Wyoming have given insight to droughts as far back as 1260A.D. (Gray et al. 2004). Looking at tree ring records in Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and limber pine (Pinus flexilis) trees, Stephen Gray and his colleagues discovered that droughts which have been experienced in Wyoming since the 1750's, are weak in severity and length when compared to those since. The most severe drought period in Wyoming’s history occurred from 1262 to 1281. The droughts of the 1930’s and 1950’s, which have been used as benchmarks for all other droughts in the United States in recent times (Woodhouse et al. 2002), are ranked 149th and 28th respectively in comparison (Gray et al. 2004). The five top ranking droughts for 10, 15, and 20 year periods are all prior to the 1800’s, with the four driest single years being 1263, 1274, 1278, and 1280 (Gray et al. 2004). This indicates a change in precipitation patterns in the Big Horn Basin area of Wyoming since the 18th century, as all recent droughts have been mild when compared to those of Wyoming’s past. Droughts in Wyoming’s future are unpredictable and uncertain; however, Richard...
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...plants, houses, and artificial recreation areas. By people settling on this area they have used a large amount of resources the river offers. Some of the problems the creation of this plumbing system has cause is it has wreaked havoc on the river resulting in most of the native fish are endangered, that major bird migration stops are severely truncated and degraded, that some of the most spectacular scenery in the world is less spectacular, and that the national and world economies are at risk. One of the problems identified by the Colorado River Task Force is that the current usage of the Colorado Rivers unsustainable. The existing plumbing system is vulnerable to natural events, such as drought or earthquakes. Reconstructed histories of the region strongly suggest that prolonged droughts, several times longer than those experienced in the last 150 years, are real, although irregular, features of...
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...Drought Having an Affecting In discussion on the California Drought, one controversial issues has been that if the people in California should be worried about relocating somewhere else. One the one hand, the drought not only affecting the people, the animal’s habitats but also the crops. On the other hand, some hope that the government will intervene and try to do something to prevent disasters from happing and having to worry about people moving to another state. The government should intervene and do something about the consumption of water people use and not only are the people being victims but other sources who depend on water also to survive. Living on the Garcia Ranch Edgar is surrounded by Mother Nature is a wonderful lifestyle....
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...English 1A 20th May 2014 Drought Problems It is clear to everyone, Water is main source of survival for all mankind. Nevertheless people seem to imagine that our water supply is endless. So why worry? But problems of severe drought have affected many states in America. California is also one of the states that have been severely affected and the government has declared drought emergency state-wide. Many urban areas in the bay area have started taking action against drought emergency. The government in many district in Contra Costa county has requested the public to conserve water and introduced the preliminary water use reduction target that are to be followed by all the residents and customers. As a result of the drought emergency small suburban city like El Cerrito has done a lot to help conserve water that could be implemented by many other district in Contra Costa County. The different projects El Cerrito has implemented to conserve water during drought could be also used by urban cities so that they do not have to implement extreme actions later on and also will be of great help during worsening drought conditions. In order to prevent serious damage due to shortage of water El Cerrito city started The Energy and Water Efficiency Program (EWEP) in 2008 so that it could fund projects that have innovative approaches for energy and water conservation (Innovative). Just by starting such program El Cerrito city was able to fund 1 water efficiency project due to which...
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...For three years now California has been in a severe drought. It’s so bad that there is a women named Angelica Gallegos hasn’t showered in five months. She says “It’s been terribly rough.” According to officils, 1,300 people in and around the East Porterville area have lost water. The California legislature is trying to create a law to help the situation. Farmers and people and in general will pump water from underground to get enough water for their crops or for everyday lifestyle. People will pump to much of the underground water and over the years, the water has slowly been disappearing. The law states that citizens will not be able to pump water from underground. I believe the law should be in place because this not only will help the drought, but we will be able to access water if we need it....
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...Provide a rationale for the technique you have selected. Why did you select it? How does it work? Why do you expect it to be effective? I selected this technique for its proven effectiveness in changing people behavior. According to the author Elliot Aronson, Cognitive Dissonance is considered “Most important and most provocative theory” to persuade people to change their attitudes or beliefs. (P158). This technique produce a psychological distress when people action contradicts their beliefs. In other words, people are aware of the severe drought in California and the importance of to save water; however, they are wasting water. This will cause a discomfort and the best way to relief it is changing their behavior and practice what they believe. As consequence, they will participate in the project of saving water. 4. Describe how you will test whether your intervention is successful. How will you measure people’s behavior? How will you randomly assign some people to a control group of people who do not receive your intervention? I will test weather my intervention is successful making a survey in public shower containing the following questions: 1. Are you taking a shower little longer than...
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...The first article was about the Butte fire which my whole project was originally based off. It tells you about how long and drastic the fire was. The fire was insanely fast and took out a lot of land. Also talks about how the Butte fire was one of the most severe fires of the dozen wildfires they had roaring throughout the state of California at the time. Talked about all the destruction that it did, “destroyed more than 750 homes and hundreds of other buildings.” This all had happened in less than the very first week of the Butte fire. Second fire that it went ahead and talked about was the Valley Fire which was the other major fire burning through northern California very fast and taking a lot down with it. It went ahead and burned all the...
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