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Originally Posted by deltav
Yeah, I drove the length of California the last couple months, was pretty amazed at how dry everything is. Miles and miles of arid brown fields and hills where there should be green.
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Yeah.... They call it "Congress created the dust bowl". This seems to be less about the drought and more about how Congress cut off the normal flow of water because of the Endangered Species Act trying to protect some fish or not. While water rights issues are very real and very serious, I think the farms on route 5 there intentionally do not water their fields by the sides of the freeway so make it look much worse than it is.
This has been going on for some time now.
The drought here in Norcal is getting bad. Last week my HOA announced they will longer fine people who have brown lawns. I plan on letting mine go this year.