It’s raining here in the San Francisco Bay Area. Whoo-hoo! This winter’s unusually warm, dry weather has worried me. Now I feel like rejoicing, standing out all day in the steady drizzle, watching the earth soaking up the moisture and the earth worms wriggling in the puddles.
Yet local meteorologists are offering grim warnings of another year of drought, and mandatory water rationing across the metro Bay Area, as seasonal rainfall and snowpack levels reach only 60 percent of normal. In the unlikely event that storm activity returns to normal, it will take several weeks of steady precipitation to avert a shortage in domestic, industrial, and agricultural water supplies.
It might be easy to ask people to stop watering their lawns, wash only full loads of laundry, and even (gasp!) shower only every other day. But the crisis goes much deeper than that. Many of our state’s farmers, their water supplies already restricted by environmental regulations, are faced with having little or no water to irrigate this year’s crops.
So I wonder, with all the attention we are giving to eliminating our dependence on foreign oil and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, are we overlooking a more immediate crisis?
Without water, farming is unsustainable. Without food, life is unsustainable.
We can find alternatives to running our cars on petroleum, but can we find alternatives to growing food without water?
It’s a difficult question – how to allocate the dwindling water resources we have. Who gets highest priority: the endangered species, the metro water districts, manufacturing areas, or farmers? There are no easy answers.
But personally, I’ll give up my long showers if it means I still get food with my meals.
It’s wonderful to have a friendly neighbor who shares valuable information and makes me THINK! Thanks for the food for thought.
Thanks Irma for saying what we are all feeling and saying it so well. I ran into recently in my Eco-Green recent and training the prediction is the next major war that will be fought weill be over water and not oil.
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