Desperation sets-in as California goes dry: Farmers drilling deeper for water as drought drags on

Greetings,

America, where shall you flee? From whence comest thine help? god has gripped you with plight and persecution. Your West Coast, South West, and Midwest has been ravaged by drought as your animals go hungry and your crops wither in the intense heat.

The markets are forced to raise prices on people who have already been brought to near poverty levels due to the high costs of everything like, fuel, housing, food, healthcare, taxes, cars, upkeep, and ext….Already destroyed by massive unemployment the people are hungry and the governments are getting desperate.

….”America is best all around now with troubles and destructions which have happened. America thought that she was immune to the troubles and destructions which are going on in other nations.

Now the same trouble and destruction that you read of as happening in other countries and to other nations — these same troubles and destruction, with their evil and gruesome sound, are knocking on the door of America!”–pg.257(tfoa)

Farmers drilling deeper for water as drought drags on

California drought

Well drilling workers Tommy Hutchinson, left, and Angel Pimentel react to a gush of muddy water as they prepare to drill deeper. Demand is so high that their employer’s waiting list is a year long. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)
By DAVID PIERSON

California growers search deeper underground
On a dusty clearing between a fallow wheat field and wilting orange groves, Steve Arthur’s crew of two mud-splattered well drillers worked furiously to deliver a lifeline to another despondent farmer.

Using a diesel-powered rig that rumbled like a moving subway car, the workers bore deeper and deeper into the packed clay in hopes of tapping a steady supply of groundwater — about the only source of water that remains for many growers in this parched rural community about 40 miles north of Bakersfield.

Only a lucky few get a visit from Arthur. His waiting list, recorded in two 4-inch-thick binders, would take a year to clear. Most farmers can’t wait that long to save their fields. Arthur has declined cash offers from growers to jump ahead in line.

Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times
The ongoing drought reveals its effect on a nearly dry water canal where an Egret searches for food near Red Bluff in Northern California.
“Many of these farmers tell me they’d hate to be in my shoes,” said Arthur, 54, a second-generation driller. “What do you tell someone who is losing their crop?”

California’s three-year drought has sparked a surge in demand for wells in the state’s agricultural heartland. With federal and state allocations of surface water reduced to a trickle, growers are searching deeper underground for sources of water to keep their farms from ruin.

The clamor has overwhelmed California drillers and pump installers, forcing some farms to hire contractors from neighboring states.

It’s also setting the stage for more problems later as groundwater supplies are shrinking faster than they can be replenished. In parts of the Central Valley, the water table has plummeted, drying up old wells and sinking the land above, a phenomenon called subsidence…..MORE HERE 

Source: www.latimes.com

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