California Water Problem

[chrisholley1975]

Yeah we need to bailout the welfare state of California. The illegals bankrupted your health care system and entitlement system. You governors spend like drunken sailors, WTF?? Hell NO. The south can take up the slack. We are inundated with illegals here as well. California went on a binge, so all the other states should pay for California's hangover? .

[minuteman2012]

remember klamath falls in 2001....when the farmwers went in and opened the gates.you people need to take these facilities back !!!

[enzyme12345]

This is absolutely the most simplistic, flawed view of the water crisis. The primary reason why there is a water shortage is that 38 million people live in CA, most in a semi desert in Southern CA. Consider that when my parents were born in CA, 60 years ago, there were 7 million people living in the state. This is the problem. Too many people. I fear, with ever increasing population, mainly from immigration, we will indeed divert more rivers. CA is in fantasy land about its population growth.

[ShanieDog]

Hey! Im making a website talking about how to keep water sustainable for future generations to come. I find this is an extremely important topic and i would love to have this video on my website.

Please tell me if i can or not...

Thanks!

[ToolsnFire]

Seems to me humanity should be focusing on reducing population by fewer people having children. And yes, eugenics is good. That's what we do with agricultural crops/products in making the most desirable plants and animals.

[brianwholt]

This is bullshit. California has a water issue, yes. Agriculture is important, yes. But this video is simplistic at best and pure crap at worst. A college student's one-sided videography project that fails to highlight the actual complexities of the California water wars.

[jewel4america]

@brianwholt YOUR PART OF THE PROBLEM COMMIE... EVER HEARD OF EUGENICS? KNOW WHO BILL AYERS AND BILL GATES ARE YOU STUPID PUKE.. YOUR LYING OR YOUR JUST STUPID... BUT EITHER WAY YOUR WRONG.. THIS IS VITAL TO AMERICA.. STARVATION IT THE RESULT..

[isaaceazy]

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[isaaceazy]

Scary? You wanna see scary? ...

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[GodsS0N1]

Thanks for making this, I actually learned something.  I heard that they might take on Canadian water

[leeeleveneleven]

South Alabama Water Supply will ship 100% rainwater worldwide. they sell rainwater in 30 & 50 gallon drums! google South Alabama Water Supply & check em out

[Halftrac]

Leftists OUT of U.S. NOW!

[HappyPhilS]

I suspect that anyone who would put people over all other life on the planet, doesn't understand how this planet works. The balance of life on earth is the reason humans have been able to live here. All life on earth is necessary.

Also, you might do some research into the problem of saline soil and the limited number of years that are left to grow anything in the valley. The present methods used by the central valley farms are not sustainable beyond a few more years.

[Vastvisionist]

There is also a dam decommissioning movement going on in the state of Washington. Could all this be some how tied together? Lots of fisheries lost too. Indigenous type agriculture (not technology to put everyone on the grid) is what's needed to keep ecosystem in check. Local farms, not foreign! Weather modification will further worsen the problem. Support your local farmer, attend water district meetings and keep an eye out.

[Vastvisionist]

Was shocked to see Cal.Cent.Vally dried up!Lg. global Corporations are geoengineering the planet.We will not know the true temperature of the Earth until dispersants stop for at least 2 months(this has not yet happened)U.S. Govt. site says we're in for a longer fall&earlier spring,predicting theEarth's weather.Are they pushingGlobalWarming agenda with weather modification(making it warmer)?Causing droughts,floods,hurricanes,etc­.to cash in& take resources?Too much water onEarth for water wars.

[Gangstawisel]

good video it opened many people the eyes who see this

[buzzinbuzzibee]

"unsafe foods from abroad" ? seriously? what plant are you living on?

[SFOtter]

At minute 5:12 they finally admit the true cost of their advocacy. You support diversion of water to agriculture at the price of eliminating spawning grounds for salmon. There is a cost associated with that loss. This is a one-sided documentary. Touching but manipulative as hell.

[jnnycliff]

@SFOtter If you live in CA you can drive from north to south, you will see people post sign Dust Bowl. The water in CA really have a problem, not to form fish but it just not enought for growing.

[whitefig]

@SFOtter I agree. This documentary points out important issues that CA farmers face but it is a dangerously misleading one-sided view of the water crisis. It is not simply a problem of farmers versus the ESA. Rather, this problem stems from a history of natural resource mismanagement in the state that has degraded the ecosystem we all depend on. We need a solution that addresses the plight of the farmers AND the health of our ecosystem, a solution that is not as simple as this video claims.

[DatDereBlueRidge]

@whitefig How about less dependence on one state for so much food production? Ofcourse this opens a new can(s) of worms but it is the only real answer.

[TylerMontana]

We live right next to the biggest ocean in the world, the pacific ocean, and you're telling me mankind hasn't invented a water purifying plant yet? Instead we are directing water from a far away place? I laugh at you mankind. I laugh at you!

[cdbakewell]

Unfortunately a huge chunk of our State's debt comes from the fact that we do not charge our farmers in the Central Valley nearly what it costs to get the water there. Especially those in the Westlands Water District. We are charging these farms at most $11.50 per acre-foot of water when it costs $97 to get it there. California ag. is notorious for wasting water too. Also, do some research into NAWAPA it's a plan to get us more water from Canada, i might be something you want to advocate for.

[mtb416]

I have perhaps a facet to the total solution. Perhaps people need to start using kitty litter?

lmao, sounds ridiculous, but the water savings would be in the billions upon billions of gallons if we furthered toilet design or did away with water in the bowl altogether. I know it sounds absurd, but rather than stretching a gallon of water, which is what everyone seems to be concerned with, why not start eliminating its usage where it might not be entirely pertinent?

[glenncookiowa1979]

That person is a worthless, piece of trash. Please turn on the pumps. Don't you realize all the poverty you are building up.

[enos1989]

farm water has been subsidized by the government (i.e. at the cost of tax payers since the inception of the bureau or reclamation, its time the taxpayers stop paying for dams and the water they provide, when farmers only pay an 1/8 of what it actually costs to provide that water to them

[mtb416]

@enos1989 Yeah, let's target the farmers. That sounds smart. Let me guess, you're in LA or some huge metropolis? Do you know what a farm looks like?

[cdbakewell]

@enos1989 you are right. The farmers paying for the CVP have hardly paid over $50 million of the $931 million they promised to pay back for the cost of the Central Valley Project (CVP). The farmers in the CVP's affected area (the Central Valley) have an estimated subsidy of $500,000 per farm, per year, of California's taxpayer dollars according to Cadillac Desert written by Marc Reisner. This seems like a lot of government aid to an industry that is pulling in $185 billion annually.

[littletopper2]

@cdbakewell The farming costs will be passed onto the consumer and thanks to free-trade, consumers are getting harder to find. This in turn, will bankrupt farmers, resulting in the banks seizing their land(s). Farmers using aquifer irrigation, will be subjected to property tax hikes, this resulting in the same scenario.

I do detest our subsidy system but in order to fix it, we must stop free-trade. Unlikely. The cost of food would skyrocket.

If you have a solution....please share it.

[louis12346]

if you pass Obama care Sen. Boxer will turn on Water

[bef787]

Interesting and pretty educational, thanks.

[5danderson]

Also the ESA is about protecting ecosystems not necessarily a particular species, they are just used as a tool.The smelt is just 1 link in a complex food web.The Delta ecosystem is all but collapsed, many species are in danger,including the winter run salmon. In addition to irrigating over 3 million acres of farmland the delta supplies drinking water to 25 million people, flood control and recreation. I guess water quality and the jobs lost from commercial and recreational fishing dont count?

[5danderson]

so many inaccuracies dont know where to start. big ag does not have exclusive rights to water.Their apropriative water rights are secondary to those who claimed first.Those farms were planted when water was cheap and abundant,before drought,before Arizona claimed their legal right to Colorado river water,before rampant development.These mega farms chose to grow water intensive cash crops like alfalfa,cotton,and orchards with govt subsidised water after sucking groundwater and Tulare lake dry

[donze52]

you speak much wisdom, but also here in Nebraska many farmers are getting rich by getting paid by you and me not to grow crops.

AS for this micro farmer-=- I use only rain barrels to grow my crops-- one inch of rain can give me 1,100 gallons of water off my roof. My yard goes a long way in feeding my family, growing medicine and weapons.

[TheChoujinVirus]

the delta crap was due to animal rights protecting the Delta Smelt. An easier way would be to control the invasive species damaging them then screwing up agriculture. If it weren't for them, we wouldn't be needing to rely on cheap labor for other things

[chuckythepro]

stupid americans. at the mercy of other countries. selfish americans

[dezarayeful]

you cannot feed fields with dead water.

a very simple biological truth.

The San Joaquin Delta ecosystem is not in decline, it has crashed. You all are rabidly suckling at the diminished & poisoned teat of California.

Our water needs some time to regenerate some life so that it can continue to grow life so that our lives might be nourished.

simple.common.sense

p.s. those "beaners" break their backs, for GENERATIONS, to feed your ungrateful mouth.

[Independentdragon]

My God, what is Obama doing? I thought he was for the American people. Obama is starving people and forcing them out of work.

[UnitedWeDivide]

How is Obama responsible for California's crap? California's crap is the fault of Californians.

Blaming the federal government for everything is giving the federal government responsibility for everything. Giving the federal government responsibility for everything is expanding it.

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

STOP WASTING MONEY ON THESE ILLEGAL ALIENS AND THE SCUMBAG TRAITOROUS GOVT SUBSIDISED FARMERS WHO HIRE THEM! THEY DESERVE NOTHING!!!

case closed

[Nathano27]

@TheNewMusicNetwork haha ok so you want farms to stop producing all our fruits and vegetables no matter who farms it you want to pay 20 dollars a pound for grapes go ahead you do it but move to another country first

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

why would i give a fuck? where I live we use OUR OWN WATER. we have rich aquafers and we don't ship our water away to other counties.

it's our water do with what we want. we grow our own veggies, dumb ass.

[devildriver4687]

The government is starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel for its excuses to fuck people. LoL.

[rlardlasslafubmk]

Google - "Lance Howard Mayes - Turn on the water" for a free download of a song to help the farmers! If someone could please use the song to make a YOUTUBE video that would be great!

[YesMan46]

I just saw the Hannity Special on this subject, appalling!

[evramos70]

Democrats believe you should kill babies and save fish... not just any fish... a fish that is imbread, and is NOT on the endagered list. the fish it is imbead with is in the trillions.

[greenhorn311]

I say we turn on the pumps are effen selfs! And shoot every fish fucker that wants to stop us?

[spartan1081990]

im doing a research paper on water desalinization and purification throughout california, any info you can provide will help a lot, would you suggest more water purification facilities?

[firstwave2]

stop CHEM-TRAILS'

[MMartin522]

If water is taken away from this region, then we will be dependent on 3rd world countries for our food. They don't have the same growing regulations as the US for health issues. We have the water in California, it's that the water is running to the ocean to protect wildlife based on an opinion of a government agency. It wasn't even based on an environmental impact report. Since when should an opinion in this country be enough to destroy livelihoods?

[PacifistR]

Dependence on other nations is a good thing.... I guess. Sure, that goes against everything our forefathers stood for.. but hey, gotta protect the minnows.

[Javamann1]

'chinatown town'

[Javamann1]

chinatown.

[ajeenyus]

Stupid farmers trying to grow crops in a desert. What were they thinking? Oh wait what else does this desert have? Oh how about productive soil and abundant sunshine. California has a water problem because of all the GD liberals that started moving here. BTW why doesn't San Fran give up its hetch hetchy water and why doesn't LA give up the Owens valley water?

[wi101ZE]

ajeenyus

U R A MORON.

we have enough water for all and the water belongs to the farmers first , the problem is that DELTA CITIES NEED TO FLUSH THE SEWER WATER THEY DUMP ON THE DELTA DAILY --------UP TO I BILLION [ YES BILLION] GALLONS A DAY ..

GOOD thing that even liberal Los Angeles scum that voted to steal farmers water is drinking that SHIT. FACTS IS FACTS WATER THEY DRINK IN LOS ANGELES SOME OF IT COMES FROM A TOILET-------HAHAHAHA

[gwynedd1]

Its a man made drought alright. California is a desert and nearly all of it water was diverted and in most cases stolen. There is plenty of dry farm land in the Midwest NOT grown on outrageously subsidized water. Go to where water is. How much of it is evaporated away because its pumped hundreds of miles in south into the desert heat?

[ELAMEX323]

They need to turn the water back on!!!!!

[bavaneld]

Well done.

[RestrainedNoMore]

excellent video.

[MrB00gaMeister]

Hrmmm .... who do I like more .... Smelt, protected by libtard policitians, or the Californian libtards, who hired the politicians to screw themselves.

I'm rooting for the smelt!! Go fish ... go fish ... go fish.....

[ajeenyus]

@MrB00gaMeister

People in the valley don't vote for libtards. California became the dumping ground for the hippies of the whole country.

[Acronym77]

T.H.E. G.R.I.N.C.H. W.H.O. S.T.O.L.E. J.O.B.S. = "Today's Heartless Environmental Greens Rob Industries Now Ceasing Hortoculturally-needed Water Humans Overwhelmingly Should Take Over Bothered Smelt!"

[Acronym77]

*horticulturally-needed

[CJD979]

MiNyuamHmoob and barkoff have no idea what you are talking about. You are just making yourselves sound stupid...

[MiNyuamHmoob]

doesn't matter what this stupid video says. drain the water and everything will be worst. let the saltwater comes in and start growing salty plants. real nice...real nice. LOL.

[barkoff]

"Rivers are drying up"..why?

"Towns are disappearing".. which ones?

"People are disappearing"..Really, where? The last I looked CA still had a population of more than 35 million. These people are shameless, if the water is needed to supply the world with agg and jobs, why are we seeing farmers selling their water subsidies to towns in SoCal for profit? Nice music though, it brought a tear to me eye.

[ajdonabed]

lots of truth here!

[crashq]

VSOLS, you misunderstand the situation. 80% of the water used in CA is used by the Agricultural industry, while only 10% is. used by residential water users. The system isn't in trouble because it lacks sufficient infrastructure, it is in trouble because more water was allocated than was physically available. Agribusiness prefers to cloud the issue so they can continue the same old use of heavily subsidized water and not implement more efficient, but more expensive irrigation techniques.

[fernfeyes]

Hey...has anyone figured it out yet? When government creates the problem, it will eventually present the solution..with a few strings attached, of course!..I say this tongue in cheek. I think this is all a ploy to divert the water to L.A.. All of Calif paid for the canal, but only L.A. will benefit.

[VSOLS]

MikeyWier we all of a sudden need more water because our Gov't has allocated NO water to the farmers. Co-existing with CA wildlife is not the issue, in fact I agree, and I am sure most people agree, however you are correct CA cannot support 36 million people with the current water system that is built today. That is the point of the video. We "humans living in CA" cannot "co-exist" any longer unless our legislators take action to build infastructure immediately to support the growing population.

[MikeyWier]

Those fields have been running on their same allotment of water for decades. Why do they all of a sudden need more? Is it because there's allot of money to be made by selling water?

We need to learn to co-exist with California's native wildlife. There is a balancing point. None of the people you showed in that video are native Californians. King and Coho salmon as well as steelhead and sturgeon have lived here 4 centuries. Maybe California just can't support 36 million people!!!

[mandingo9999999]

Part 4

There are solutions and they have to do with better conservation and reclamation practices, and agri-business living in the real world with a limited water supply - just like everyone else. Destroying my Delta is not an option..

[mandingo9999999]

They fuel Delta towns, businesses, resturants, guides, commercial ocean salmon fishing, coast communites from Santa Cruz to the Oregon border. Delta farmers relie on this water as well.

Increasing already record water exports from the Delta may be a solution for your problems but creates equally large problems in the region you take it from. Why are your needs bigger than ours? It's also telling that nowhere do you mention out of date irrigation methods and other wasteful practices.

[mandingo9999999]

Part II - The only way these huge agri-business coorporations will get more water is by taking it from the Delta. After record water exports in just the last few years the fisheries have collapsed - king salmon, steelhead, striper, sturgeon. These fish fuel OUR economy in northern california.

[mandingo9999999]

Part 1 - What a one-sided PR BS video.

It is unfortunate the unemployment. But you've left our several rather inconvient facts:

The southern half of the valley is basically desert. Is it wise to build and expand a business of growing water hungry crops like cotton and cattle in the f'n desert? Even in good water years there is never enough.

[REALITYCHURCH]

Finally some1 who knows a little about the facts! I bet you are the only 1 here who knew they grew high demand water crops like cotton, cantelope, and wheat. When they don't have to. SAVE THE RIVER NOT THE FARMS IN THE DESERT!

[louis12346]

A record 1 billion people worldwide are hungry and a new report says the number will increase if governments do not spend more on agriculture. According to the U.N. food agency, which issued the report, 30 countries now require emergency aid, including 20 in Africa.

" world emergency that calls for action from both developing and developed countries," said Otive Igbuzor, the head of international campaigns for ActionAid International

"We know a child dies every six seconds of malnutrition,"

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

too bad all those beaners didn't die

[mediaxpuppet]

most of the people who's jobs he's referring to are mexican american.

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

no they're not. they're illegals and dropped anchor babies to get here.

the people in the fiels are illegals too on "work visas" forged as are most.

[Nathano27]

@TheNewMusicNetwork ok dude your missing the big picture here. They are cutting the water did you not see the beginning of this video and how much they distribute to the rest of the U.S. we will all suffer from this.

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

it's not your water, dumb fuck. it's sacramentos.

stop trying to steal their water, dickhead.

[24100mw]

Please don't just sit there and shake your head...write and call your elected representatives.

You and your family must eat, drink and bath...water is the lifeblood of your family.

There are compromises...protect the fish but PROTECTING MAN IS MORE IMPORTANT!

DO SOMETHING!

[Aimstr23]

Thanks for sharing.

[tsmithpe]

Scary stuff. Sacramento and DC better wake up

[REALITYCHURCH]

No PEOPLE BETTER WAKE UP AND LEARN THE ISSUE. RIVERS NEED WATER!! AND ESA IS A VERY GOOD THING! I SUGGEST YOU GO TO EARTHJUSTICE WEBSITE AND LEARN THE HARD FACTS ABOUT THE BIOLOGY INVOLVED, AND THE PIRATING AND SELLING OFF OF OUR RIVER WATERS. ALSO-MOST ALL THE CROPS THEY GROW THERE ARE SURPLUS & HIGH WATER = LARGER SUBSIDIES FROM GOV. LIKE FOR WHEAT, COTTON, = 2 OF THE MAIN CROPS! LEARN SOME FACTS FRIEND. LIKE, THIS ISN'T ABOUT JUST THE DELTA SMELT! THAT'S JUST THE NAME/SPECIES ON THE ORDER!

[alinabinawina]

Thank you for making our issue public - WASHINGTON DC better listen & make a difference!

[ivguerillagardener]

@alinabinawina

if we consider humans "over" nature instead of a part of it - and humans are a part of it - we're going to face WAY worse problems in the future. this video represents economic interests of a small amount of people. it SHOULD show how the system currently threatens the ecosystem of which we are all, each job, each person, everyone on earth as the water system is a global system.