"California drought will end, but it's not the last"

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California's drought will not be permanent. But the state needs to make changes to prepare for the next one.

Policymakers, businesses and others will have to prepare for the likelihood that droughts as severe as the current one are more likely to happen at least twice in people's lifetime

www.cnbc.com/2015/09/29/engineer-california-drought-will-end-but-its-not-the-last.html

They say that the next generation will have a shorter lifespan. If each generation has a shorter lifespan then they will only have to prepare for one such drought in their lifetime.

[oxankle]

Blooming: All this hysteria as if no such event had ever been known. Weather changes. One of the old 1800's writers told of steam boats crusing the central valley of California rescuing ranchers and homesteaders from terrible floods.

We can expect strange things to happen now and then.

As for life expectancy, I think you are probably wrong. Those who prepare for life and can pay their way will prosper just as we do. Those who do not prepare will suffer. One cannot expect to live a long life if one is on the dole, but those who look ahead will be fine.

[bluelacedredhead]

Policies are changing there. It's illegal to water lawns now in many places in CA if not all?? . In some communities it is illegal to wash your vehicle at home. Instead, the municipality asks that people have their vehicles washed at facilities that recycle the wash water. And I have family who live in a community where all of the flowerbeds are being changed over to drought resistant plantings of cacti that don't require supplemental watering.

And I agree with Oxankle. Weather is cyclical and patterns have repeated many times over although some in the science community say that the hole in the ozone layer has increased the severity in some cases.

[here to stay]

Yet in our area of California, the local reservoir has enough water to have released about 4 times its volume this year straight to the ocean. When the local water boards complained about have to still enforce extreme conservation, the State water board responded with a "we're all in this together", which never seems to hold when the State wants to divert water from our area or pay for the park land they take out of the tax base or anything else that they want that effects us negatively to give it to the south.

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Oct 2, 2015 12:00:39 GMT oxankle said:

As for life expectancy, I think you are probably wrong. Those who prepare for life and can pay their way will prosper just as we do. Those who do not prepare will suffer. One cannot expect to live a long life if one is on the dole, but those who look ahead will be fine.

But how many will be urban apartment dwellers and how many will be on the dole?  Maybe you won't be, but what about you grandchildren?

"Under President George W. Bush the number of recipients rose by nearly 14.7 million. And under Obama, the increase so far has been 14.2 million."

www.factcheck.org/2012/01/newts-faulty-food-stamp-claim/

"Obama’s legacy is almost certain to include a stubbornly large increase in the food stamp rolls. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects a very slow decline in the rolls. As of its most recent “baseline” projections of the program, CBO estimated that when Obama leaves office in 2017, the number of food stamp beneficiaries will still be at 42.7 million — one third more than when he entered."

www.factcheck.org/2015/01/obamas-numbers-january-2015-update/

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Whose fault is it that they choose to be an urban apartment dweller?

You can't go fishing on a rainy day and get upset because you got wet.

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And you can't go for a Sunday afternoon ride with a Hereford bull in a Honda Civic and get upset when you have to keep stopping for bathroom breaks.

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Ok......that makes about as much sense as Hilary Clinton.