California Drought Update - Is California's Water Crisis Over?

[@phxmateo]

I was at Donner Lake today and it is full to the brim. There is still lots of snow in the peaks as well.

[@Mcfunface]

Utah is absolutely full of water too. It's been a good spring for us. Great Salt Lake is recovering

[@0ppaiDragon]

I love your channel this is information that should be on MSM but they instead prefer to follow narratives. Thank you for the weekly updates. Let's hope we continue to see good snow/rain fall for water year 2024

[@drummersagainstitk]

This channel is one of the things that fascinate me about nature. Thank you for your work.

[@barabaraboyer8740]

Always enjoy your reports.

[@johncornell3665]

Look forward to these updates and you explain and go into great detail. Thanks for your research!

[@ericmaclaurin8525]

No. El nino restocked water supplies but its over and climate change pushing seasonal rain north means we'll always have water issues until we develop large scale desalination to supply the coastal cities.

[@tishainess9339]

5:31

[@kevinerhart8461]

I was wondering how much snow was on the mountain

[@sujimtangerines]

Where do the releases go when they open the taps? Is there a water protect or infrastructure to send it south? Give Lake Mead a break?

[@ericmaclaurin8525]

Lake mead is on the other side of a mountain range. He mentioned that it is stored underground though. However many millions of acre feet.

[@sujimtangerines]

@@ericmaclaurin8525 No, I meant send the extra NorCal water to SoCal so Lake Mead won't have to release so much to SoCal. If all of it goes into the aquifer, that's different.

[@georgehaydukeiii6396]

Just because we get one or two decent winters, does not mean the drought is over! It will take years or maybe even decades for aquifers to recharge! can't people see the mistakes this kind of logic makes? until we recharge the water underground, we're not anywhere near recovered. think of the ground as a big sponge, just because it's damp on the outside doesn't mean the inside is full of water like it should be.

[@DMoney9590]

San Luis section has New Melones on the screen

[@joeycad]

Them damn operators

[@billl1127]

The water crisis is never over, just postponed.

[@rambug99]

Rinse and repeat

[@XGhozt.]

So my water bill is going to decrease right..? ... RIGHT?!

[@boblatkey7160]

Me me me! Myself and I!

[@Gryphonisle]

California lacks a sustainable source of water local to its urban centers. None of our cities, nor has the state, done anything near enough to capture rainwater. And water waste is significant, in urban and agricultural areas. As has been pointed out, one couple, the owners of Pom and Cuties pomegranate and tangerines, use more water than all of LA and Orange county, combined. Almonds take nearly a gallon of water per almond. That doesn’t even begin to deal with San Francisco’s extravagant waste of Hetch Hetchy water, spraying it on the streets for purely symbolic value, for 21 years, and counting. We need a sustained focus on water conservation, and more effort put into capturing and storing rainwater.

[@ericmaclaurin8525]

We need broken people like you to stop talking.

[@dustman96]

I'm here to admonish you for providing us with useful information about the water supply situation in one of the most important agricultural states. It really irks me how you do all that research and make videos that concisely give us the information we need. And those couple verbal stumbles you made really pissed me off. Don't get me started on the fact that you use your real voice instead of a computer generated voice. I mean really, WTF?

[@boblatkey7160]

That's funny! He asked for it! Everybody else is doom and gloom even when things are good so good job!

[@mutantryeff]

Answer: NO! CACAfornia should not be building any new houses, cities, apartments, etc. until they commit to increasing the amount of water storage. Currently, they are tearing down water storage capabilities.

[@nonconsensualopinion]

What are they tearing down? They are actually building another dam; one of the first in decades I believe.

[@Gurusum6]

Sad that Arizona is doing better at water management than California..

[@ericmaclaurin8525]

What's wrong with you? Red state basement busybodies who know nothing about the world outside of their basement are not experts on anything.

[@patricianoll1229]

Bull s.😅

[@nonconsensualopinion]

Dude makes a video with charts and satellite images and that is your rebuttal?

[@RobertCHoweSr]

The water drought is never over in California. After 2 to 3 years of heavy El Nino precipitation, it has in the past been followed by 5, 7 ,and 8 years of drought. Meanwhile, the Sacra-tomato River continues running to the San Francisco Bay.

[@RobertCHoweSr]

Gotta start injecting reappearing water from the so-called return of ancient lake waters to severely depleted underground reservoirs. Add more of the Sacremento Dellta's resouce to the California Aquaduct Systems.

[@frankgrima]

One year from now we will be back in an emergency drought , it's my understanding that more water is being released then saved?

[@ericmaclaurin8525]

You said the early snow melt was released into the ocean and then said it was diverted to underground storage...?

[@brentfrank7012]

No it’s not, most of our fresh rain water goes in the ocean. It’s not over, it’s prime to start over again immediately.

[@boblatkey7160]

Doom & Gloom. 😂

[@cowymtber]

Don't forget that fifth reservoir that few know about: Old Cahones.

[@jeanne-gord7685]

Love seeing all that water. Question...is the footage of all those flooded fields current or just stock footage? Thanks for the reports.

[@Paul_C]

Well, you still have a very, very dry lake bed... you actually bled it dry.

[@skiporbit]

Good stuff, thanks for the video, well done.

[@josephmclennan1229]

Have they lowered anybody bill ?

[@phxmateo]

Last year we had a historic snow fall. comparing to today's snowpack to last year's snowpack is foolish.