The Future of California’s Water | Full Series

[@bosquebear1]

Bring back beavers! Seriously!

[@Krispy1011]

I agree - hairy ones

[@dennissalisbury496]

Yes, Beavers and their dames replenish ground water but that would be too simple a solution not requiring $billions in taxpayer money.

[@UA_in_USA]

Beavers will save the world 🌎

[@boardcertifiable]

Wish granted 🧞‍♂️

[@Ac_a]

California should take care of California FIRST. NOT the rest of america.

[@Rodrigo-tk2fm]

The fact that we are still flushing the toilet with fresh water is absolutely wild and irresponsible

[@etrankill3r14]

Have you used japanese Toilets, They have some where you rinse your hands above the tank, so that water gets recycled into the bowl. It was a weird idea at first, but it grows on ya

[@Krispy1011]

go ahead and do it if you thinks its so good or shut your pie hole!

[@eliafuimaono]

Good stuff

[@GnarlsBarkley123]

Bring back Tulare Lake! We need more reservoirs.

[@frederickmarc-aurele2035]

Progress in strategically reusing highly treated wastewater has been very slow but steady for decades. Conservation, efficient/effective use of scarce water resources, and targeted reuse is a must in California.

[@randy-mw5dq]

We Californians around 5 years voted to pass funding to build more reservoirs, since that time none have been built and the moneys being used for special interests projects.

[@patriciabray5726]

Water is a subject that every person is going to be challenged to learn more about as the atmospheric conditions, rights and ownership and the need for learning and creating best practices hit communities around the world.

[@dustybricks113]

LA and SD where founded as lumber towns due to the crystal clear water in the rivers filled with salmon. Now the hills are barren except houses... The forest was never replanted... And you wonder why you have no water... It is all by design. I was raised in SD, now I live where I'm free and can afford a nice safe neighborhood for my daughter.😊

[@ChristopherHaws90]

I feel like it should be about diversification.

[@CameronPosh]

nice

[@sonomahotsauce7244]

well done.

[@lexuannhi]

Thank you for doing this clip. It opened my eyes and helped me looking farther into our future, when whether I'm still here or not, the younger generation will be benefited.

[@unknOwN-nv9nu]

Drought plus heat waves in California. You need water to survive. I’ll take recycled water and take that anxiety of waiting for rain any day. Times changed and we must too or it’ll be our downfall.

[@LawrenceLudy]

90% of California`s rainwater flows into the ocean each year. Why can`t we store and recirculate more of this water, while still protecting fish and the environment.

[@larryludy1382]

I think your 100% right. The future looks bleak with more scarcity and government control of our lives.

[@MissMermaidTailz]

Do we all not remember the giant snow 2 years ago? Where did that water go? They wasted it and put it in the ocean! 😢

[@MissMermaidTailz]

They need to use the technology they have now and track every flake of snow! ❄️

[@AveMaria1917]

St. Kateri Tekakwitha, ora pro nobis

[@islandbirdw]

The Navy spearheaded desalination aboard ships in particular.

[@ShadeCandle]

There was a water rights folder there labelled "YOLO". That definitely bodes well, lol.

[@adamoliver4094]

I know you're making a joke, but Yolo is a county in California just West of Sacramento.

[@grahamkearnon6682]

Up here in BC we are well aware how the States want access to the Rockies water shed. There has been US talk since the 70's on diverting that source south.

[@DarylRandy-s6c]

Education. Education. education. Prevention. prevention, prevention, The american "farmer" needs to start educating the farm laborer so that they can understand the way our ecosystem works. Im doing my part here on the river. It starts with you. Thank you news 10

[@adamoliver4094]

Maintaining the salinity level of the ocean seems like a trivial concern. The shelf drops off quickly West of California. It's not a long, shallow culdesac like the Arabian gulf. Localized high salinity is much less likely near San Diego than near Al-Jubail.

[@Darknimbus3]

Title should be: “The Future of California, Arizona, and Nevada’s water” (i.e. California constantly steals its eastern neighbors’ water)

[@DymonBeats]

because CA has farms.

[@lalah9481]

Interesting that y’all didn’t show how sketchy the water ‘rights’ system and the water boards distribution debates, committees, and ‘votes’ have been. How billionaire owners have colluded with smaller ranchers to extract maximum water regardless of damages to local ground water and aquifers. There are entire towns without access to any water. There is infrastructure (roads, bridges, and canals) failing due to aquifers emptied without replenishing. The fact that we have too few companies drilling wells for access to deeper sources… Greed kills.

[@paulgilliland2992]

The lady with the recycled water part has a strange delivery voice .

[@jakehood7463]

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Letting water run off into the ocean then trying to separate the salt from the fresh water is clearly the least attractive option. Necessary maybe but the more reliant on it you are, the worse of a job you're doing managing the water.

[@00crashtest]

Honestly, agriculture will have plenty of water to use even during extreme droughts if everyone just uses drip irrigation or airtight greenhouses. That is because there is the law of conservation of mass after all. The atoms that make up the water originally in the river don't just disappear. The atoms that enter must leave at the same rate in order to keep the level of the river constant. Here, the only methods of leaving are flowing into the ocean, being incorporated into agricultural products, evaporating, and groundwater recharge. The flow rate of the Sacramento River minus the amount needed to maintain the minimum depth at the delta even during low water levels way exceeds by orders of magnitude the amount of matter that can be shipped out at any given time by truck, trains, or even giant maritime ships (if such a shipping channel had existed there) and transpiration combined. My bet is that virtually all, proportion wise, of the water that is taken from the Sacramento river is evaporated from the soil by flood irrigation or just using sprinklers directly on exposed soil. The farmers seem incredibly ignorant of hard science, which are the physical sciences.

[@davidsasse40]

Sf should have desal. Pump the brine into the salt ponds on rhe bay. Cargill would love it

[@selvarajkannan9923]

The biggest crisis humanity has been going to face deadly flooding,historic storm and high temperatures with drought 🙋‍♀️.In this connection animals are also under thread and crops yield is also plummeting for farmers across the country .Eventually it is awful global warning 🙏🇮🇳.

[@ecofriend93]

47% of water in California is used for animal husbandry, more than any other industry and it cannot even meet the animal foods demand for CA. CA grows 80% of the whole world's almond supply. In terms of efficiency, there's no contest, animal husbandry is a huge waster (and as the new story highlights, stealer) of our water resources.

[@trinetteh]

Tear down the dams & bring back the beavers..

[@kabanchan5768]

no wee don't fudge cali

[@kblskables2877]

these people really spent 20 mins trying to make farmers out to be the bad guys?

[@jaymzgaetz2006]

Why is desalination a last resort? Rising sea levels and the reduction of salinity in the ocean from human activity are a growing threat to ocean ecosystems and countries all over the world. These high tech desalination plants aren't practical especially for a place like California where you can have 3 jobs and still be homeless. They need to regulate how much water is allowed into the ocean where rivers meet the ocean lowering sea levels and resalinating the ocean. There's a lot that can be done to sea water without the need for an impractical desalination plant to make water suitable for crops. The problem with California is they believe that business and profits are more important than people and until they create a sustainable environment for people nobody will have any sympathy for California. Anything California comes up with that benefits the environment or people comes with a price tag that's impractical and unreasonable because the people that created it live in a state that is impractical and unreasonable for people to live. Something totally obvious for an oregon resident like myself dealing with californians fleeing at such a rate we're ready to build a wall to keep them out. There are people commuting by plane from oregon to California because of housing, traffic, and inflation. Instead of coming to oregon and wrecking our state...FIX YOURS.

[@sentientflower7891]

Desalination doesn't lower sea level at all.

[@jaymzgaetz2006]

Nope...but water consumption does.

[@riorocky3360]

separate the drink water pipe from non drink water use. just don;t flush fresh drinking water down the toilet. use shower water, dishwashing water, recycle water, sea water, 2nd, 3rd used water whatever, it is toilet, flushing with dirty water not going make me thirsty to drink or use the water from toilet anyway. there many coastal cities in Asia using sea water to flush. Navy ships use sea water to flush toilets.

[@r22gamer54]

Sea water isnt a good idea cause it would cost a bunch of money to pump that warer and it would also damage our toilets. Many places already use recycled water for toilets and for plants.

[@briggsviloria5823]

Real News! Thank you

[@politicalchannel66]

Good information

[@lingth]

California are happy to use Waters for their Vegan Milk.. their Almonds.. for almond milk, etc..

[@henrytep8884]

California makes it for the entire country, but don’t forget to include avocado.

[@adrianpineda3346]

Liberal Propaganda

[@wild-radio7373]

This presentation is FANTASTIC ❤

[@mattfavaloro350]

Wait you could essentially stick a straw into the ocean and extract water that is usable for human consumption and irrigation with desalination plants. Israel Saudi Arabia many countries in the middle East used desalination to supply freshwater to their citizens and you're telling me you can't can bs

[@dennissalisbury496]

The Sites Water Reservoir Project was delayed 50 years to create water shortages.

[@jacksongould4263]

"We may not be able to slow the rate of climate change...". Are we already giving up on slowing or reversing climate change after hardly trying? Slowing climate change is the best way to mitigate impacts to our water system in a state that is overwhelmingly dependent on snowmelt water and have been pumping groundwater like its limitless while preventing most recharge for over a century. Definitely appreciate a focus on what cities and metropolitan areas are doing to be more water efficient because that is going to be critical going forward. Cities, especially in the southern part of the state, will face huge stressors from reduced water availability from historical diversions (Colorado River, CVP/SWP) and will have to mitigate that loss somehow. Farmers will also need to get their act together as by far the largest users of water in the state. Growing fewer water intensive crops (almonds, pistachios, alfalfa etc.) and increasing rice cultivation where appropriate will go a long way. Farmers also need to start being smarter about the way they farm, ie reducing the use of chemical fertilizers that contaminate groundwater and surface water by rotating fields, planting cover crops, generally taking measures to rebuild the topsoil, and increase soil organic carbon in the central valley will also have a massive impact on water quality and use.

[@Rodrigo-tk2fm]

Humans do not act until life changing consequences occur. How does that look collectively? Maybe after a full blown global apocalypse and by then it will be a matter of how many humans can survive, not how many will die.

[@golden_ratio-y8r]

You can get water from the air!!!! Much cheaper! You can get water even in desert from air

[@cloudatlasminer478]

If you live in a dessert, you’d think maybe not the best place for a farm. The Egyptian did. Similar thing, creating irrigation, which will drought California even more.