It rained this morning again. The Western US is so lucky to not have to deal with rain every 3-4 days. Also doesn't this prove that the West was at abnormally high water levels for decades? Which would mean then that this "drought" is a natural consequence of abnormally high rain conditions and thus not an actual "drought" but a return to normal?
If the Sahara experienced decades of rain and water pooled and flooded followed by years of "drought", it would dry up. You wouldn't call that a "drought" you'd call it normal.
Yes, i understand the amount of water necessary to cause pools of water in the Sahara is obscene but the point stands despite that.
California has been living off of the underground aquifers, which have been accruing for thousands of years, and now it's time to pay the bill for farming and massive population growth.
You aren't wrong. pic related https://pic8.co/sh/bZQAsk.jpeg
Right, I understand they're on aquifer water now. But it's clear there was a time period of a few decades at least after that city was a big spot for Hollywood films and actual living in, it being submerged in water and now being drained of water. It's like what people say about building cities in a dessert. Problem with that is it's modern times and desalinating, while slightly expensive relative to natural rainfall, is a cheap alternative to what they're losing. It's completely fabricated. Further, they drained more reservoir water from multiple smaller reservoirs than the total of Lake Mead over the last 1+ decades.
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