California Allocates More Water Than Available For Use, According To New Uc Study Read More Here:

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  1. #1 Earth Ling, Aug 20, 2014
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    Weir to have water rationing on a planet with 70% WATER?
     
     
     
        California allocates more water than available for use, according to new UC study
    By Ana B. Ibarra
    @mercedsunstar.comAugust 19, 2014 Updated 2 hours ago
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    California is deficit-spending its water and has been doing so for a century, according to new research from the University of California.
    Joshua Viers, UC Merced professor of water resources, teamed with Ted Grantham, a UC Davis postdoctoral researcher at the time, to look into the state's database of water-rights allocation dating back to 1914.
    The researchers found that distribution exceeded water supply by five times the average annual runoff and 100 times the actual surface-water supply for some river basins.
    The state has about 70 million acre-feet of surface water available for use in a good year, but water rights issued since 1914 allocate a total of 370 million acre-feet, researchers reported. An acre-foot is the amount of water it would take to cover one acre to a depth of 1 foot.
    Viers and Grantham's study “100 years of California's Water Rights System: Patterns, Trends and Uncertainty” was published in the journal Environmental Research Letters on Tuesday. The research analyzed public data from the State Water Resources Control Board, which administers water rights.
    According to Viers, the water-rights allocation system is complicated and backlogged, which contributes to the problem. “It's a broken system, from a policy perspective,” he said. “What's on the books shows an overwhelming disparity between resource availability and appropriation.”
    Another factor is that with California's Mediterranean climate means it's almost impossible to be certain how much water will be available in any given year. Considering California is in a drought year, researchers are advocating that policies and procedures be updated.
    “The good news is that the state is actively working to improve water-use reporting,” Grantham said. “And given the public's current attention on drought and California water, we now have an unprecedented opportunity for reforming the water-rights system.”
    Viers and Grantham are working with the state on sorting out some of the issues in its database to get more information and make it available to policymakers.
    Supported by the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the National Science Foundation, UC Merced professor Roger Bales and colleagues developed a sensor network that could be turned into a unified, statewide water-information system. However, Bales estimates such a system would cost about $100 million.
    UC Merced researchers have also developed programs that could help meet the demands for adequate water supplies, Viers said. “UC Merced has positioned itself to become a real leader in water resources.”
    “We can't manage what we don't measure,” he said. “We've been putting a lot of efforts in developing intelligent infrastructure that will develop better information and lead to better decision-making.”

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  2. Just a few technicalities here.

    The earth is not 70% water.

    70% of the "surface" is "covered" with water.

    Only about 10% I think? Of the earths water is fresh drinkable water, and most of that is locked in ice.

    Once we can purify ocean water for cheap, I believe many many things will change

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  3. In Yuba County they put an emergency ordinance for growers to stop growing medicine due to the drought...Yet yuba City is selling the water to another city...Hmmm...
     
  4. #4 SmokinP, Mar 27, 2015
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    They are all drinking bottled water. I will never get bottled water.
     
  5. Yeah, we will rape the oceans as well, not that we arent already.
     
  6. That makes sense on why they banned outdoor.

    I think we need to build more reservoirs to hold back all the water the runs into the delta and out into the ocean.
     
  7. Idk I think it is all bullshit. I think the activist are trying to punish us for everything.
    Growing weed?? Well we are waistng water for weed
    Watering your lawn? Well your waistng water....
    Taking long ass showers in the hotel???waistng water...

    Now the EPA wants to put a meter on hotel showers.....

    Growing up I thought our government was great
    Now I see why people complain about our system
    It's not just one guy. It's not George w fault. It is the whole system, all the tentacles spread out though out the world
     
  8. Bottled water is going to kill the environment.
     
  9. People should reuse their bottles. I usually keep the same water bottle for a month or so before getting a new one. I just refill it with reverse osmosis water from the grocery store

    -yuri
     
  10. How is desalinating ocean water raping the ocean?  That water has already been recycled countless times.
     
  11. Our politicians dumped millions of gallons of water from california reservoirs for trout, to keep the water cool as they swim towards the ocean, during a drought.

    Gov brown wants to redirect the sacramento river now to the central valley, where i live for crops.

    I read the other day that farmers use 80% of california water, but only account for 2% of our GDP.

    And while the common man is limited in his water usage, farms where i live have mansions with green lawns.

    Ie, theyre not in a water shortage.

    I know farmers who purposely dont water every year to collect the 2 million dollars in insurance, annually, when their crop cant be grown due to restrictions. One farmer got super duper rich a few fields over by tricking all the senile old men into an agreement where he ended up with their land in the end. Its brutal here.
     
  12. Further increasing humanity's presence near the oceans and therefore humanity's waste, it will just keep adding up.
     
  13. are you saying we shouldn't drink ocean water?

    How about we just learn to fix our problems. For example: just because wr llive near water doesn't mean it needs to be polluted.

    -yuri
     
  14. I have a Camelbak and I pour filtered water in it. I save so much money and I don't cringe every time I empty a water bottle. More people should do this!
     
  15. #17 forty winks, Mar 28, 2015
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    We use canteens but my favorite is a grolsch bottle, at least for the vehicle where weight and fragility don't matter as much.
     
  16. So Cali is wasting water? That's what I get from this.
     
    Kinda like the movie Chinatown?
     
  17. Hahaha. It's a little more complicated then that.
     
  18. That sounds like a great way to get pulled over and harassed/beaten for driving with an open container
     

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