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“If the water dries up, there goes California” says commentary

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on January 28, 2008 at 8:49 am

From John Van Doorn & the North County Times:

Water and California have a rich history together, dating, I believe, from 1974 and the movie “Chinatown.”  Essentially, the history is that there has never been enough of the former for the latter.

It is a given that the thirst of the Golden State is boundless. If you take in all the farmland and the ranches, plus all the people with their showers, their pools and a million other frou-frous they call necessities, the shortage is no mystery.

 

A thirst of this dimension is not easy to slake. You need your rivers, your lakes, your headwaters, your ponds, your snow, your ice, your bays, your lagoons, your aquifers, your runoff, and your rain, and all need to be in generous working order.

In Northern California, which probably should be another state, there is water, and some of it works its way down here, but in the larger picture it’s a pittance that gets to the south.

Slaking calls for talent and know-how, for maturity, commitment, devotion and passion, like that rare husband.  Absent these, supplies of water cannot get to California, and a future such as that, born of parched-earth policies, holds little attraction for the average human, whose own body in a wicked irony is between 45 and 75 percent water. (The more fat, the higher the percentage.)

The lands would wilt to dust. All creatures of the mammalian persuasion would die or go back to Indiana.

To read the full text of this commentary from John Van Doorn & the North County Times, click here.

January 28, 2008 · Filed Under Water Supply

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