why is California always in a drought crisis, but landlocked states in the Midwest are not?
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California is a desert and getting fresh drinking water from the ocean needs a lot of energy and it’s not good for the environment. They just dump the extra salt right back into the sea, making the area around the plant uninhabitable.
To add to everything else mentioned here. A lot of the great plains states sit on top of the Ogallala Aquafier. One of the largest in the world.
http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Oc-Po/Ogallala-Aquifer.html
To add to everything else mentioned here. A lot of the great plains states sit on top of the Ogallala Aquafier. One of the largest in the world.
http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Oc-Po/Ogallala-Aquifer.html
To add to everything else mentioned here. A lot of the great plains states sit on top of the Ogallala Aquafier. One of the largest in the world.
http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Oc-Po/Ogallala-Aquifer.html
Kansas and Oklahoma currently have far worse droughts than California. Plains residents famously fled The Dust Bowl and moved to California.
Not sure what the overall statistics are, but your assumption that California is prone to drought, while the Great Plains are not is flawed.
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
Kansas and Oklahoma currently have far worse droughts than California. Plains residents famously fled The Dust Bowl and moved to California.
Not sure what the overall statistics are, but your assumption that California is prone to drought, while the Great Plains are not is flawed.
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
Kansas and Oklahoma currently have far worse droughts than California. Plains residents famously fled The Dust Bowl and moved to California.
Not sure what the overall statistics are, but your assumption that California is prone to drought, while the Great Plains are not is flawed.
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
Less rainy periods, not a lot of methods used to hold water on/in the land that would stabilize the water levels during the non-rainy periods.
Less rainy periods, not a lot of methods used to hold water on/in the land that would stabilize the water levels during the non-rainy periods.
Less rainy periods, not a lot of methods used to hold water on/in the land that would stabilize the water levels during the non-rainy periods.
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