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Related: About this forum10 California drought myths debunked
http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2015/05/29/10-california-drought-myths-debunked/The answers to these questions are spreading across the Internet like a wildfire blazing through the water-starved Santa Ana brush. Some of them are true, others exaggerated, and many downright wrong. No, you wont be paying $20 for a little carton of California-grown strawberries this summer, even at that ubiquitous grocery store that loves to suck up whole paychecks with beautiful produce.
To help you determine fact from fiction, we checked in with Jay Lund, a University of California at Davis professor in civil and environmental engineering. Lund is on the forefront of drought research, predicting our states future and determining the best plans of action. He helped SFGate debunk a few of the most common California drought myths and the good news is that he says, Dont panic.
Water is going to get tighter, Lund says. Were going to be reminded that we live in a dry state. But we can make some changes to better manage our water and we have a lot of ground water to help us out.
antiquie
(4,299 posts)Glad to see these as myths:
Building more desalination plants will fix the problem.Environmental regulation is causing the water shortages.
(from OP link)
Cleita
(75,480 posts)I might venture to add Country Clubs with their golf courses of lush greens and other water guzzling lawns I have witnessed with my own eyes, especially out in the middle of the Mojave Desert. Instead the rank and file Californian is being expected to cut back on an average of 25% usage so that the water guzzlers can continue to guzzle. Well, I'm so anti-oil these days that I'm all for shutting down all drilling and refinery operations today, especially since the latest spill on our coast this month. But that is another topic.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)they've stopped watering their fairways within 100 yards of the tee. Works for me. Think of it as a hazard, like a sand trap: if you hit your drive less than 100 yards, it's going to bounce along the rocky ground.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)constructed a golf course that was topped with a kind of crushed gravel that they mixed with some kind of adhesive that kept the dust from blowing away. It made a workable golf course and no grass or vegetation was needed at all. So there are ways to do stuff if you have the will.
NBachers
(17,136 posts)with noxious poison dust.