How is “ California’s scarce water resource allocated?” & Anaheim's water laws.
What is happening to the water in California? Where is it going ? How to save it ?
Nowadays people say “ California's currently in its fifth year of severe drought.” But people forget to ask themselves is what exactly lead California to that position and why is it going through severe droughts.
California’s water is distributed in three major places; 1- The urban with 10%. 2- Environment with 50%. 3- Agriculture with 40%. Second, the environment. Where 50% is distributed through california depending up on whether the land is dry or wet . Because California's unique geography and perfect climate, it’s one of the most productive states in agriculture. So there’s more than 300 different crops and 14 commodities. There are 77,900 farms and ranches in California, which require so much water. About 9 million acres are used for agriculture. The reason water is used the most in agriculture is because of the different dual purposes and the different species of animals that come to the land. Also the water in agriculture is not reused in most cases. …show more content…
In dry years it's very easy to reduce water, because the environment intake of water decrease. But it's not that easy always sometimes it's very hard to control the flow of water or reduce it when its growth season. But the State water resource control board has issued 12 different orders to reduce the water. One of them was , water shouldn’t be taken from rivers and streams simply because there’s no water to meet all needs. Also the help of programs like SWEEP that helped farmers save thousands of acre feet of water and reduce greenhouse gases and increase energy use. A Lot of factors helped in reducing the water to the minimum so it can be saved for the next years.. Did it
What is happening to the water in California? Where is it going ? How to save it ?
Nowadays people say “ California's currently in its fifth year of severe drought.” But people forget to ask themselves is what exactly lead California to that position and why is it going through severe droughts.
California’s water is distributed in three major places; 1- The urban with 10%. 2- Environment with 50%. 3- Agriculture with 40%. Second, the environment. Where 50% is distributed through california depending up on whether the land is dry or wet . Because California's unique geography and perfect climate, it’s one of the most productive states in agriculture. So there’s more than 300 different crops and 14 commodities. There are 77,900 farms and ranches in California, which require so much water. About 9 million acres are used for agriculture. The reason water is used the most in agriculture is because of the different dual purposes and the different species of animals that come to the land. Also the water in agriculture is not reused in most cases. …show more content…
In dry years it's very easy to reduce water, because the environment intake of water decrease. But it's not that easy always sometimes it's very hard to control the flow of water or reduce it when its growth season. But the State water resource control board has issued 12 different orders to reduce the water. One of them was , water shouldn’t be taken from rivers and streams simply because there’s no water to meet all needs. Also the help of programs like SWEEP that helped farmers save thousands of acre feet of water and reduce greenhouse gases and increase energy use. A Lot of factors helped in reducing the water to the minimum so it can be saved for the next years.. Did it