why is California always in a drought crisis, but landlocked states in the Midwest are not?
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Because California already had a weird, borderline climate not found in many places on earth (mostly along the coasts of the Mediterranean, and also some parts of Australia) that’s on the edge between a desert and something more temperate, and now it’s turning into just an actual desert because of both global, and local human-made climate change.
Because California already had a weird, borderline climate not found in many places on earth (mostly along the coasts of the Mediterranean, and also some parts of Australia) that’s on the edge between a desert and something more temperate, and now it’s turning into just an actual desert because of both global, and local human-made climate change.
What does being landlocked have to do with it? Desalination of ocean water is possible, but is way more expensive than just using available fresh water sources.
California has a massive agricultural industry since parts of it are some of the most fertile in the country and arguably the world.
California has a massive population as well. Roughly 40million people live in California. The usa 330million itself so California is over 10% of the population
This puts California at around 2/3rd the population of France (65ish million people) and half that of Germany (84ish million people )
And as others have stated already. It doesn’t rain as much.
California has a massive agricultural industry since parts of it are some of the most fertile in the country and arguably the world.
California has a massive population as well. Roughly 40million people live in California. The usa 330million itself so California is over 10% of the population
This puts California at around 2/3rd the population of France (65ish million people) and half that of Germany (84ish million people )
And as others have stated already. It doesn’t rain as much.
California has a massive agricultural industry since parts of it are some of the most fertile in the country and arguably the world.
California has a massive population as well. Roughly 40million people live in California. The usa 330million itself so California is over 10% of the population
This puts California at around 2/3rd the population of France (65ish million people) and half that of Germany (84ish million people )
And as others have stated already. It doesn’t rain as much.
What does being landlocked have to do with it? Desalination of ocean water is possible, but is way more expensive than just using available fresh water sources.
What does being landlocked have to do with it? Desalination of ocean water is possible, but is way more expensive than just using available fresh water sources.
A lot of good info elsewhere in the thread, but one very simple answer is the mighty Mississippi River. Some people take for granted we have a river basin area that, outside of the Amazon and not by a lot, is the greatest river basin area in the entire world. It is insane how much fertile land we have in America thanks to this one river network.
Mismanaged water infrastructure. The purpose of water reservoirs is to buffer the annual fluctuation of rainfall, but for it to work reservoir capacity has to be proportional to the population size. California’s water reservoirs haven’t been updated since the 1970s and the population has more than doubled since then. The result is that California has no buffer for fluctuation in rainfall, so a year that is below average immediately becomes a drought crisis.
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