For much the same reason, ski resorts were largely deserted due to lack of snow. Business was down at Sierra ski resorts anywhere from thirty to ninety percent. One interesting corollary between the 1970's water levels and now is that Jerry Brown was governor at the time and he is governor at present. Just one of the measures that was implemented to combat the water shortage was that landscaping was banned for new home constructions. Homes that were built had to be built with bare earth or something else not requiring water. This was limited to the San Juan water district but is emblematic of just how bad it was in the 1970's in California (Heise, 2016).
As noted before, what is seen right now is not all that dissimilar to what was present during the middle part of the 1970's. The current cycle of drought has lasted for about six years but the last thirty years as a whole have been rather nasty overall. There has been an amount of rain but the melting of mountain snow happened much earlier than it should have and the weather has been warmer than normal. Expectations were high because El Nino was expected to come along and cause much more rain but it simply did not happen. Through October of 2016, the current year has a 50/50 chance of being above or below normal overall. As such, the current recommendation and plan is to continue conservation and saving water as a means to mitigate the drought conditions that exist (Ybarra, 2016). Indeed, a 2005 article on the subject noted that El Nino was rather "weak" and thus did not help the California area much. Beyond that, the same El Nino pattern was seen during the 1997-1998 period. As explained by the authors, "in contrast, the increase of chaetognaths presented a similar pattern to that observed in El Nino 1997-1998 (Durazo et al., 2005).
One major issue with the current drought is that residents and regular people are being asked to shoulder the conservation burden while there are many corporate parties that are using water and raiding the water table at a frenetic pace. The main culprit when it comes to some parties using more than they could or should would be agriculture. Even state officials admit that the agriculture industry is using a great share of the water in the state and the residents are stuck sharing what is left. In total, wild and scenic rivers use not quite a third of the water (31%), other rivers get 9%, keeping saltwater out of the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta consumes about seven percent, managed wetlands are about two percent and agriculture is only 41%. This leaves about ten percent for…
The most fundamental assumption of Lohan's article is that access to clean drinking water is a human right. Anyone who reads the article and believes that to be the case will have no trouble agreeing with Lohan's claims; but those who do not believe that access to drinking water is a human right might disagree. Lohan also manages to conclude the article on a positive note, thereby encouraging the reader
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