Sipping California Dry Summary

In the article, “Op-Ed In the water crisis, it’s time to move beyond the farms vs. cities mindset,” Nathanael Johnson informs the public that some individuals do not condone the amount of water that farmers consume, as opposed to the people who live in the city. People believe that irrigation is making farmers rich and the vast percentage of water that is being distributed to the farmers is aiding them. However, farmers need the water much more than the people living in the city because all of the farmer’s living is based on farming. For instance, whenever there is a drought, then farmers are the first to pay the price; people living in urban areas do not really understand the important of water, therefore, water is taken for granted. Unfortunately,

With a drought we have no free will. The journey is long and treacherous. Three hours there, an hour to find some decent water, and three

One of which, is water. The causes of the drought is the overpopulation of Californians and the fact that most of Southern California is a desert. Also most of California’s water is used in farming because the state has the most utilized valley in the country. So many crops, such as almonds, require massive amounts of water. The effects of overpopulation and lack of natural resources have caused the supply of water in California to become limited.

So many lands, farms, fields of fruits and vegetables are gone because of the drought. All this happened because of a shortage of water from once green and healthy crops to dead dry brittle crops that are abandoned by a drought. For example, we had to cut back on watering my lawn and it went from a green lawn to a dead lawn, because of cut backs. Mat Wiser said that, “ Water will become one of the defining limits to human development and a compound factor in human misery,”(2009 Wiser). If we don’t have water we will die faster without water than food, we can’t be greedy on something that we thrive and survive

Due to a shortage of water in California, the governor has proposed a diversion system to move water from the Northern California to Southern California. As for this will probably help since there is more farming, and more climate changes in Northern California. This will make a big bad and good difference.

Western times and water wars (Walton, 1991) is a book of historiography and sociological interpretation of the story of Owens Valley California. At the heart of the Owens Valley story is a conflict for water, and collective actions against powerful, dominant forces. Walton covers the Owens Valley story in its entirety, from the resettlement period when the Paiutes inhabited the territory, to modern day. By detailing the one hundred plus year history, the changing sources of conflict and resistance could be explored over time.

California dry from all of its water people trying to sell or just moving anywhere else. The drought has been going on for many years and slowly California is running out of water. If the government of California does not do anything the people may start to attack farmer to get water or the government may go for the people. The farmers are using all the water and people are losing their water.

Farmers lose money during droughts. The Robert Lee, Texas drought is the worst drought the town has suffered in 116 years. The ground had gotten so hard that at one point it caused the underground pipes to burst, sending the water up onto the streets. The mayor of the town realized what was happening when the reservoir started drying up, at a rapid

The text allows for the reader to understand what the water crisis is, and how it is impacting our daily lives. The text also gives the reader multiple different examples of water control in the United States. But, because of all the corporate greed, corporations are ruining our natural resource of water by creating it into a commodity and selling it. This book gives great insight on how corrupt the government can be when they want to make a cheap buck. Again, “Water is a necessity of life that touches everyone in their own homes” (Snitow and Kaufman, 1) water is a right to all humans, not a commodity for business

California and the Drought What is happening to california valley? It used to be green and rich with agricultures. Now with the lack of rain, it is becoming a dry state. Then there are the problems we are facing.

People in this society believes every statement that is said by an important person true. In California, new reports has claimed California to be in a drought due to the waste of water. However, is California’s drought report an actual problem? Ever since 2013, the news station ABC news have claimed California is in a drought crisis.

We have to take water from different lakes and rivers around the state and we even get water from other states. When we are not able to get sufficient water, we can always change the crops we are growing to acclimate to our weather

Throughout a long history, California’s land has been exploited, preserved, and conserved-all for the sustainability of its people. Opposed to the Preservationists’ idea of simply letting the Hetch Hetchy Valley be, the Conservationist’s idea of flooding the Hetch Hetchy valley and the construction of the Hetch Hetchy dam overall provided a win-win situation, beneficial to both the people of San Francisco and to the government of the United States. Several sources, including John Muir’s The Yosemite, Gifford Pinchot and John Raker’s testimony before the House Committee on the Public Lands, a telegram written by the San Francisco District of the California Federation of Women’s Clubs, John Freeman’s still image, “Photo of the Proposed Hetch Hetchy Reservoir,” and an article written by the San Francisco Examiner display

The article written by Michael T. Klare, titled The Coming Hunger Wars: Heat, Drought, Rising Food Costs, and Global Unrest, tries to persuade the reader that the so called “Great Drought” of 2012 has roots in global warming, and “the immediate consequences of the still ongoing Great Drought: dying crops, shrunken harvests, and rising food prices,” and the long term effects including social and political uproars. (Klare 4) Klare uses many techniques in his writing, including ethos, pathos, and logos, which can be very effective when implemented properly. Klare’s audience is widespread because he feels we all play a part in our climate and environment, but he is looking to really hit the climate change non-believers.

Farmers who had enough of it moved to california, but many of them could not afford homes. They could barely afford food and had to work extremely hard to make sure their family wouldn’t starve. Californians weren’t very welcoming to the migrants, they would spread rumors about them and call them mean names. Although eventually things turned around for the migrants, the drought had ended and they could begin