Argumentative Essay-It's Time To Drought In California

Decent Essays
Would you go without a shower for more than a week?California is in a drought and everyone needs a well but not everyone can get a well.I think California should have laws.

“Officials say at least 1,300 people have lost their water in and around East Porterville, nearly three hours” (Source2). ““The crippling drought is expected to cost the state $2.2bn in 2014 and put more than 17,000 farm workers out of a job” (Source2).They need the law because farmers are taking water from other people.

“Scientists are already sounding alarm bells about pumping too much groundwater” (Source3).If they keep taking ground water it can cause a sinkhole.

“Gov. Jerry Brown has signed his groundwater regulation bill, a bill that one local farmer says

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    If we didn’t have the lakes, we always had groundwater, which was annually replenished by the rain and snowmelt from the Sierras. However, as the earth’s temperature steadily climbs, and the state suffers through a massive dry spell, demand for water has reached an all-time high, and groundwater use has soared as a result. This has caused the water table, or the depth at which water is found below the surface, to plummet as water is pumped from the ground faster than the aquifers can rejuvenate. Once farmers needed only to drill 500 feet deep to reach water, now they have to drill down at least 1,000 feet. Scientists have also discovered that the more water is taken out from Central Valley, the more the land begins to sink- the San Joaquin Valley in particular…

    • 530 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the article by Ian Lovett and Michael Wines it is stated that Jerry Brown, Governor of California, is known of his battle against climate change and even participated in the United Nations climate change conference in Paris but failed to prevent the fire of emissions in California. Lovett and Wines claimed that the report in the journal Science the Porter Ranch breach doubled the amount of methane emitted daily in the Los Angeles Basin and Brown administration did take any actions to regulate this issue. The authors use as a support a claim made by Food & Water Watch that Brown does not do anything about climate change and is more interested in the oil and gas industry therefore opposed the ban on technique that caused fracking. Lovett and…

    • 345 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The Ukiah Valley Groundwater Basin is located in the North Coast hydrologic region in Mendocino County, California. In 2009, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) launched the California Statewide Groundwater Elevation Monitoring (CASGEM) Program to monitor groundwater basins (groundwater table elevations) throughout California. DWR developed the CASGEM Groundwater Basin Prioritization process to classify groundwater basins and sub-basins as high, medium, low, or very low priority by using the following criteria: overlying population, projected growth of overlying population, the number public supply wells, the number of total wells, overlying irrigated acreage, reliance on groundwater as the primary source of water, and any impacts the groundwater basin has experienced from overdraft, subsidence, saline intrusion, and or other water quality degradation problems.…

    • 340 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “It underlines the way California's weak groundwater regulations have allowed more water to be withdrawn from underground reserves……

    • 402 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    California groundwater law has been diverse. Aside from groundwater laws, the concept of adjudicated basins has been a way to manage groundwater. In adjudicated basins, the court has jurisdiction, watermasters are appointed, local management districts exist, and it is the economics associated with groundwater pumping that determines the behavior of the groundwater users (California Department of Water Resources California's Groundwater Update 2013: A Compilation of Enhanced Content for California Water Plan Update 2013). Adjudicated basins can form when people or cities go to court to address groundwater issues.…

    • 603 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    California Water Crisis How would you feel if you didn’t have enough water to use the restroom everyday, or if you couldn’t shower for over 6 months? Being that California has been in a gargantuan drought for the past 4 to 5 years, water has been in short supply in more places than not. Farmers claim that they should be allowed unlimited access to the state’s supply of groundwater, solely in view of money crops. Ironically, while farmers are making these claims there are people in these towns, traveling 3 to 6 hours to get a gallon of water to last their families a week. Many believe that there should be regulations and water control considering farmers are complaining that they grow crops to sell,…

    • 611 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In fact, the Central Valley Project is expected to stop distribution this year. Poor resource management has created a bigger issue in addition to the lack of rain. California has been over-distributing water. More water is being assured than nature can supply.…

    • 806 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Study of California’s newest Drought Determining when drought develops is a function of drought impacts and water users. Drought is best sought as a period of dry weather, and extended shortage of water, especially a long one that is injurious to crops. This is a dangerous hydrologic condition that not only concerns water users in the affected area but also in some other locations some water users exempt but not all the way safe. Drought is a abnormal circumstance if it is insistent. Drought is a gradual emergency.…

    • 704 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The deeper the aquifer, the less ability it has to refill with a portion of them lacking the capability to refill ever "potentially changing how and where we can live and grow food, among other things" (Dimick pg. 3). A report from Stanford University reveals that 60 percent of the water needs from California are coming from Aquifers during years of drought and approximately 40 percent during non-drought years (Dimick pg. 4). Aquifers can predominantly be slowly replenished excluding the occasions these resources are drained. In the instances where the aquifers are drained, they can collapse and cause many ground collapsing events. Brian Howard describes how the water table, level of ground water, has dramatically deteriorated from 500 feet to 1000 feet in Central Valley, and the rate for drilling the wells is at a costly rate of 300,000 dollars per well.(Dimick pg 4).…

    • 716 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Without firmer groundwater management, California residents will continue to experience the effects from groundwater overuse. Communities will lack water security, experience water quality issues, and face high costs from digging deeper wells. These problems will grow, but can be better addressed locally with support from the state. The introduction of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act should provide much needed guidance for managing California’s groundwater system. Pre-Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) Up to 2014, there had been no coordinated effort on managing groundwater in California.…

    • 229 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Arrowhead Water Drought

    • 453 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The western region of the United States has faced several droughts over the years. Recently, the region has been inflicted with one of the most severe droughts since the dust bowl period. Citizens of the state are now being forced to use conservation efforts in order to reduce water usage and it’s been successful to an extent. However, among all this, Nestlé and it’s Arrowhead brand of bottled water have recently been under fire for extracting over 25,000,000 gallons of water each year for $524 under a permit that expired in 1988.…

    • 453 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    It should be regulated so that there is water saved. But as we all know farmers use large amounts of water for the crops and huge amounts by what farmers call “flooding”. Which means to flood the whole farm which is used instead of using of sprinklers. But once the farmers run out of groundwater in their area, some will try to use neighboring…

    • 427 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Great Essays

    California Drought

    • 1790 Words
    • 8 Pages

    Water is a crucial component to sustain human, animal, and plant life. When a problem that puts water supply at risk of depletion is encountered, people should concern themselves with the inevitable detrimental effects of water shortage. California inhabitants are currently faced with this problem. Although all of California’s citizens have some awareness to California’s drought issue, many are oblivious to the drought’s severity. They continue to leisurely use water due to assumptions that the drought is short term or that the lack of water is normal because the state is a desert.…

    • 1790 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    California Drought History

    • 1004 Words
    • 5 Pages

    We observed about California drought. We planned to observe how California drought affected the farmer, because we thought that farmers used water to irrigate their farm, so California drought would affect them severely. We went to farmers market at Oakland. We met with many farmers there and asked several questions. We wanted to know how severe is California drought for farmers, what have they done regarding California drought and what are they going to do if the California drought got severe.…

    • 1004 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Water pollution is one of the worst problem society faces today. When vital freshwater is polluted, we endanger humanity’s own existence. Water pollution is an issue that poses an economic and social problem in society’s daily life. Furthermore, the contamination of pristine waterways can be linked to some emergence of new diseases. Yet, most people are oblivious to the problem.…

    • 820 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays