Some utility companies in effort to entrap their customers, set up daily variable water quota, for basic rate, which when exceeded results in doubling or tripling the rates, and to make it more complicated the quota sometimes quota depends on weather verified daily, making weather prediction skills a must since you better correctly predict weather before you take shower, otherwise you’re out of luck.
Again another year NASA apologized to people of California for the forecast miss as they mixed up El Nino with La Nina already three years in the row. Patterns of ocean surface heating of equatorial Pacific are violently shifting making most longer term weather prediction models complete failure and expose severe lack of any deep understanding of complex global weather processes within American community of climatologists or atmospheric researchers.
The fact is that climate change happens but any attempts to adequately quantify it ended up so far in failure. Instead of incorporating climate change into ongoing continuous, decades long plans to readjust the agriculture and urban areas of most severe impact in order to slowly mitigate real consequences of volatility of climate, the issue is used as propaganda and political ploy to confuse and divide people with no real progress on the ground.
The fact is that there is no lack of water in California for Californians as of yet; there is lack of affordable water for small to medium farmers as well as rest of population already pauperized by ongoing severe economic crisis. It is gauging of price of water, under cover of drought, by those who hold, established before 1915, feudal-like rights to it, rights so entrenched that cannot be even amended by law, or lifted in the state of emergency.
These rights are presented as God’s given rights never to be changed by mortal man. It is not exaggeration. The California State, when their own resources are exhausted and price-contracted volume is used up has a choice to pay up exuberant prices for water from sources controlled by water moguls, and resell them to farmers at subsidized price increasing budget spending or do nothing.
And that’s exactly what is happening for three years now since governor, after serving his political cronies with plentiful water, would not upset his wife or JPM bank or both who threaten California with another credit rating downgrade if spending balloon.
Who are those moguls who concocted this fake water crisis on the back on real drought? Mostly those are major cities of southern California, so-called public utilities, theme and water parks owners as well as private interest of huge landowners and Wall Street run mega farms.
It is little publicized fact that much of the water in California is not what we would call commons but is owned by different kind of entities mostly public, private and government agencies, most of which are useless to public except for gauging prices as much as they can. ²
