Could we be seeing the effects of global climate change? Reports say some of California’s reservoirs are at their lowest levels in 30 years. California’s largest reservoir, Lake Shasta, is only at 48 percent of capacity, while Lake Oroville, the next largest reservoir, is only at 40 percent capacity. Oroville, which supplies water to Southern California, will be at around 20 percent capacity by the end of this year. Prospects look even worse with a dry 2009 forecasted. Some areas of California area beginning to discuss mandatory water rationing as voluntary rationing has only resulted in a 3 percent reduction thus far.
Some may say we’re in a climate cycle, but I don’t remember California being this dry in many years. There have been droughts in California, but if projections are correct, next year could be the worst in the state’s history. I don’t need to tell our readers we have to conserve. I just wonder sometimes if we’ve reached the point of no return in terms of the adverse effect we’ve had on our planet.
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