The Future of California’s Water | Full Series

In this ABC10 Weather investigation, the team looks into what the future holds for California's water.
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  • @briggsviloria5823
    @briggsviloria582314 күн бұрын

    Real News! Thank you

  • @bosquebear1
    @bosquebear114 күн бұрын

    Bring back beavers! Seriously!

  • @Krispy1011

    @Krispy1011

    10 күн бұрын

    I agree - hairy ones

  • @dennissalisbury496

    @dennissalisbury496

    10 күн бұрын

    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

    @UA_in_USA

    9 күн бұрын

    Beavers will save the world 🌎

  • @GnarlsBarkley123
    @GnarlsBarkley1239 күн бұрын

    Bring back Tulare Lake! We need more reservoirs.

  • @eliafuimaono94
    @eliafuimaono9415 күн бұрын

    Good stuff

  • @politicalchannel66
    @politicalchannel6615 күн бұрын

    Good information

  • @frederickmarc-aurele2035
    @frederickmarc-aurele203513 күн бұрын

    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.

  • @wild-radio7373
    @wild-radio73739 күн бұрын

    This presentation is FANTASTIC ❤

  • @Rodrigo-tk2fm
    @Rodrigo-tk2fm13 күн бұрын

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

  • @etrankill3r14

    @etrankill3r14

    10 күн бұрын

    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

    @Krispy1011

    10 күн бұрын

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

  • @patriciabray5726
    @patriciabray572610 күн бұрын

    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.

  • @lexuannhi
    @lexuannhi7 күн бұрын

    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.

  • @riorocky3360
    @riorocky336014 күн бұрын

    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

    @r22gamer54

    13 күн бұрын

    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.

  • @sonomahotsauce7244
    @sonomahotsauce72449 күн бұрын

    well done.

  • @CameronPosh
    @CameronPosh15 күн бұрын

    nice

  • @ChristopherHaws90
    @ChristopherHaws9014 күн бұрын

    I feel like it should be about diversification.

  • @AveMaria1917
    @AveMaria19179 күн бұрын

    St. Kateri Tekakwitha, ora pro nobis

  • @Ac_a
    @Ac_a10 күн бұрын

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

  • @islandbirdw
    @islandbirdw13 күн бұрын

    The Navy spearheaded desalination aboard ships in particular.

  • @unknOwN-nv9nu
    @unknOwN-nv9nu12 күн бұрын

    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.

  • @user-ve3qn3jj7o
    @user-ve3qn3jj7o15 күн бұрын

    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
    @adamoliver409410 күн бұрын

    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.

  • @LawrenceLudy
    @LawrenceLudy12 күн бұрын

    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.

  • @lingth
    @lingth11 күн бұрын

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

  • @henrytep8884

    @henrytep8884

    11 күн бұрын

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

  • @ShadeCandle
    @ShadeCandle10 күн бұрын

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

  • @adamoliver4094

    @adamoliver4094

    10 күн бұрын

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

  • @grahamkearnon6682
    @grahamkearnon66829 күн бұрын

    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.

  • @bearants
    @bearants8 күн бұрын

    government will never solve this problem. but they will make sure they appear to be doing everything that can possibly be done. in the end, the solution requires the exit of government. just a matter of how long everyone wants to wait.

  • @00crashtest
    @00crashtest14 күн бұрын

    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
    @davidsasse4014 күн бұрын

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

  • @dustybricks113
    @dustybricks11312 күн бұрын

    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.😊

  • @dennissalisbury496
    @dennissalisbury49610 күн бұрын

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

  • @kblskables2877
    @kblskables28779 күн бұрын

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

  • @jacksongould4263
    @jacksongould426314 күн бұрын

    "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

    @Rodrigo-tk2fm

    13 күн бұрын

    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.

  • @lalah9481
    @lalah94819 күн бұрын

    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.

  • @mattfavaloro350
    @mattfavaloro3507 күн бұрын

    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

  • @cloudatlasminer478
    @cloudatlasminer4788 күн бұрын

    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.

  • @jakenguyen7463
    @jakenguyen74639 күн бұрын

    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.

  • @paulgilliland2992
    @paulgilliland29929 күн бұрын

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

  • @selvarajkannan9923
    @selvarajkannan99239 күн бұрын

    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
    @ecofriend939 күн бұрын

    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.

  • @kabanchan5768
    @kabanchan57688 күн бұрын

    no wee don't fudge cali

  • @Darknimbus3
    @Darknimbus313 күн бұрын

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

  • @trinetteh
    @trinetteh13 күн бұрын

    Tear down the dams & bring back the beavers..

  • @jaymzgaetz2006
    @jaymzgaetz200610 күн бұрын

    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

    @sentientflower7891

    9 күн бұрын

    Desalination doesn't lower sea level at all.

  • @jaymzgaetz2006

    @jaymzgaetz2006

    9 күн бұрын

    Nope...but water consumption does.

  • @AllatRa_Shambala
    @AllatRa_Shambala10 күн бұрын

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

  • @adrianpineda3346
    @adrianpineda33468 күн бұрын

    Liberal Propaganda