California's watershed management system is based on the assumption that there's a sufficient amount of water supply to satisfy water demand, but the supply is unsteady and has to be averaged out. With climate change, that no longer holds true.
Watching this channel go from "this corporation did shady things but its okay because it made numbers go up" to actively calling them out and advocating for a better world is genuinely heart warming. You learned more about the world and it clearly changed you as a person.
While this video was refreshingly accurate compared to other channels, one area I feel it missed was the huge amount of conservation and water recycling work that’s been undertaken by Los Angeles since the 90s. LA now uses less water than it did in the 70s, despite the population growing by over a third. In addition, there has been a huge effort in recent years to pump recycled water back underground to replenish the huge aquifers beneath the city. The hope is that LA County can become self sufficient in the next few decades.
About 30 years ago I oversaw a major project for the biggest water wholesaler in California and was asked to interview representatives of the biggest agricultural company in the San Joaquin valley. I was dreading having to drive up to Bakersfield for the meeting but then the client said “you can meet them at their offices in Beverly Hills.” Even the “farmers” themselves lived in the wealthiest areas of LA.
One thing that isn’t mentioned in the video is that Orange County (sitting between LA and San Diego) is about 80% self sufficient in water and can easily weather droughts because the major river in so cal runs right through OC and has been depositing ground water for thousands of years. The deepest of this groundwater is radioactive and is colored pink from the remains of ancient redwood trees that once grew in OC
As a civil engineer and having taken water resources last semester, we literally use this infrastructure as a learning curve of what NOT to do and never try again. Green stormwater infrastructure is the best bet for the future
lmfao god damn, those 4 giant fruit companies in the central valley all being the same company, of course they are
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One thing that isn’t mentioned in the video is that Orange County (sitting between LA and San Diego) is about 80% self sufficient in water and can easily weather droughts because the major river in so cal runs right through OC and has been depositing ground water for thousands of years. The deepest of this groundwater is radioactive and is colored pink from the remains of ancient redwood trees that once grew in OC