More than a dozen communities in California could run out of water in months

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/07/more-than-a-dozen-communities-in-california-could-run-out-of-water-in-months/



More than a dozen communities in California could run out of water in months
By Agence France-Presse
Friday, February 7, 2014 8:54 EST

Californian rancher Nathan Carver squints as he surveys the parched fields where his family has raised cattle for five generations.

Normally, they would be covered in lush green grass. But the western US state’s worst drought in decades has reduced the land to a moonscape, leaving the 55-year-old father-of-four praying for rain.

“My grandparents tell of the Dust Bowl years in the late 30s when it was very bad and dry with dust storms blowing. But this is as bad as we have ever seen it in my lifetime,” he told AFP.

Governor Jerry Brown last month declared a state of emergency due to what could be the worst drought in a century for California including its ultra-fertile Central Valley.

[Shrike47]

1. Although it's not enough, they seem to be getting some rain right now.

Drought is going to be a persistent problem for the foreseeable future. We need to address this as a nation.

[ladjf]

2. Solar powered de-salination. nt