I have seen drought conditions worse 2 times since 1975 and that particular report said it’s not been worse since 1917. Not sure if that’s a global warming scare tactic or what. We are bad, but it hasn’t gotten to what the reports say.<<<
The Calif. group has been posting and it appears that there is real trouble there, it is so dry that some farmers are not planting.
They are saying that Calif will have rationed water by June.
I would not be surprised at water rationing. I stated that I have seen worse droughts in the last 30 years but we also did not have as great a population then. With the growth of major cities and bureaucracy, I imagine we'll see rationing. My thought is we'd see it even if we didn't truly need it because control of water is crucial in dry states like ours.
On a side note I will relate something my younger daughter has been telling me for a couple of years. I don't have links to data about this but I'm sure someone here would know how to find them.
Daughter works as a "land man" in oil and gas leases. She leases and negotiates mineral rights for oil or gas speculators and drillers. She's a smart young lady as she is one of the few that still has a job as a landman in north Texas right now. She began telling me a couple of years ago that the big oil companies are not as much interested in buying long term leases on oil and gas rights as they are for water rights. She tells me that a lot of west Texas water rights have been signed sealed and delivered over to oil companies for the next 100 years.
so. the oil companies have our ground water tied up. everyone on this thread is bright enough to see the implications of this.