California regulators are likely to approve a new water desalination plant today as state officials look for solutions to ongoing water shortages, as the state struggles through its worst drought in over 1,000 years.
California regulators are likely to approve a new water desalination plant today as state officials look for solutions to ongoing water shortages, as the state struggles through its worst drought in over 1,000 years.
Are they still trying to farm stuff in the desert over there?
California is relatively unique in that farming incentives show up at the city, county, and state level.
Most states never allowed cities/counties to make the sort of incentives that Californian farmers use in some areas - especially wine country.
In some places in California it can also takes decades to unwind agricultural land for residential/commercial use. Folks inherit a few-acres-big family farm, can't farm one year or have a bad season, can't turn the land into residential/commercial, and lose everything including their house because of property taxes.
I can’t find a proposed completion date for this toxic sludge factory, but I wager that there will be a large scale crop failure in the Central Valley before it’s brought online
The Central Valley is, ironically, only a desert because of agriculture. The whole thing used to basically be seasonal wetlands, prior to colonization.