From left, Kirsten Sedlick, Daniel
Connor, Ashley Cook and Brennan Slavik tube-feed the rescued sea lion
pups at the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, Monday, March 2, 2015, in
Laguna Beach, Calif. Since January, more than 1,100 starving and sickly
sea lion pups have washed up along California’s coast. Rescue centers
have taken in about 800 but are stretched thin by the demand. (AP
Photo/Jae C. Hong)March 16, 2015
By Gillian Flaccus
The starving sea lion pup (click here) was so tiny that it looked like a rock at the
base of the seaside cliff until it struggled to raise its head as humans
approached.
It bleated weakly as volunteer Brennan Slavik eased it into a crate for
transport to a rescue center, where it peered from a child's playpen
with woeful eyes made enormous by an emaciated frame.
At almost a year, the pup weighed just 23 pounds — a third of what it
should — and staff quietly took it to a private room, euthanized it and
moved on.
It's a scenario playing out daily in California
this year as rescue centers struggle to keep up with hundreds of sick
and starving sea lion pups washing up along the coast. More than 1,650
pups have been rescued since January from beaches, but also from inside
public restrooms, behind buildings and along railroad tracks....
The fisheries have probably collapsed again
California needs to build desalination plants. It has no other choice. This is not going to resolve. This past year was the closest California has come to recovering at all from drought, but, it has been to long. California has to address returning water into their environment. Farmers and water evaporation will begin to build in the atmospheric air mass over California. Water vapor has to exist in California again. The day there is dew on the lawns in southern California will be the day California can believe they are recovered from severe drought.
The USA has to assist California with the building of desalination plants. There is no other choice and the USA has to be sure the sixth largest economy in the world remains intact.
California needs to work day and night over the next year establishing desalination plants. One year is not long and the state needs multiple desalination plants.
THIS IS AN EMERGENCY, no different than Superstorm Sandy.
March 16, 2015
By Jason Samenow
As California’s water supply is steadily dwindling, (click here) it is piling up warm weather records at a feverish pace. Disturbingly, the weather pattern responsible for this hot, dry pattern shows no signs of relenting as scientists gain more clues into what’s causing it.
In a must-read Op-Ed published in the LA Times last Thursday, NASA’s Jay Famiglietti called for immediate water rationing in laying out several depressing facts about the state of water affairs in California, due to the drought:
- Groundwater and snowpack levels are at all-time lows
- Water stored in the Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins was 34 million acre-feet below normal in 2014
- Water stored in the Sacrmento and San Joaquin river basins was 34 million acre-feet below normal in 2014
- It has lost about 12 million acre-feet of total water annually since 2011
- It has about one year of water supply remaining in it's reservoirs
Saudi Arabia (click here) has utilized desalination plants for a long time. They have the largest in the world. Governor Brown needs to travel to Saudi Arabia to tour the facility there to realize how best this science can serve California.
He needs to do that soon. The state legislature has to treat this as an emergency and immediately pass legislation to begin the construction. There are a lot of people in California relying on the government to help them. It is time to get started. Any objections have to be set aside.
DO NOT BUILD ANY OF THEM OVER A FAULT!!!!!
California needs to build desalination plants. It has no other choice. This is not going to resolve. This past year was the closest California has come to recovering at all from drought, but, it has been to long. California has to address returning water into their environment. Farmers and water evaporation will begin to build in the atmospheric air mass over California. Water vapor has to exist in California again. The day there is dew on the lawns in southern California will be the day California can believe they are recovered from severe drought.
The USA has to assist California with the building of desalination plants. There is no other choice and the USA has to be sure the sixth largest economy in the world remains intact.
California needs to work day and night over the next year establishing desalination plants. One year is not long and the state needs multiple desalination plants.
THIS IS AN EMERGENCY, no different than Superstorm Sandy.
March 16, 2015
By Jason Samenow
As California’s water supply is steadily dwindling, (click here) it is piling up warm weather records at a feverish pace. Disturbingly, the weather pattern responsible for this hot, dry pattern shows no signs of relenting as scientists gain more clues into what’s causing it.
In a must-read Op-Ed published in the LA Times last Thursday, NASA’s Jay Famiglietti called for immediate water rationing in laying out several depressing facts about the state of water affairs in California, due to the drought:
- Groundwater and snowpack levels are at all-time lows
- Water stored in the Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins was 34 million acre-feet below normal in 2014
- Water stored in the Sacrmento and San Joaquin river basins was 34 million acre-feet below normal in 2014
- It has lost about 12 million acre-feet of total water annually since 2011
- It has about one year of water supply remaining in it's reservoirs
He needs to do that soon. The state legislature has to treat this as an emergency and immediately pass legislation to begin the construction. There are a lot of people in California relying on the government to help them. It is time to get started. Any objections have to be set aside.
DO NOT BUILD ANY OF THEM OVER A FAULT!!!!!
