Desperation due to desolations: With Dry Taps and Toilets, California Drought Turns Desperate

Greetings,

This is a bad omen for America. California is the largest taxable state in the union. She is the center of all commerce and trade domestically as well as internationally. She enjoys the largest port for shipping in the country.

She accounts for over 55% of all produce for America internally and for export. Now with this intense drought that scientists are even saying could last at least 100 years, she is becoming a dustbowl state. That is….she is becoming desolate.

Desperation is starting to set in. Think about it. She is one of the most important states in the union for tax revenues, investments, commerce, and trade. As the drought intensifies this has the ability to further destroy the economy pushing domestic prices through the stratosphere.

It will put companies, farms, ports, and industries out of business. This means 10’s of thousands more hitting the already crowded unemployment lines. And this will in essence push the American economy over the edge of bankruptcy and insolvency.

Can we say “collapse?” This is the path she is on. She is being plagued and brought to poverty, hunger, despair, and disgrace!

With Dry Taps and Toilets, California Drought Turns Desperate

ORTERVILLE, Calif. — After a nine-hour day working at a citrus packing plant, her body covered in a sheen of fruit wax and dust, there is nothing Angelica Gallegos wants more than a hot shower, with steam to help clear her throat and lungs.

“I can just picture it, that feeling of finally being clean — really refreshed and clean,” Ms. Gallegos, 37, said one recent evening.

But she has not had running water for more than five months — nor is there any tap water in her near future — because of a punishing and relentless drought in California. In the Gallegos household and more than 500 others in Tulare County, residents cannot flush a toilet, fill a drinking glass, wash dishes or clothes, or even rinse their hands without reaching for a bottle or bucket.

Unlike the Okies who came here fleeing the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, the people now living on this parched land are stuck. “We don’t have the money to move, and who would buy this house without water?” said Ms. Gallegos, who grew up in the area and shares a tidy mobile home with her husband and two daughters. “When you wake up in the middle of the night sick to your stomach, you have to think about where the water bottle is before you can use the toilet.”

Now in its third year, the state’s record-breaking drought is being felt in many ways: vanishing lakes and rivers, lost agricultural jobs, fallowed farmland, rising water bills, suburban yards gone brown. But nowhere is the situation as dire as in East Porterville, a small rural community in Tulare County where life’s daily routines have been completely upended by the drying of wells and, in turn, the disappearance of tap water…..MORE HERE

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