Southern California’s water habits don’t make sense
I recently posted about the drought in Texas and how that American state is suffering from a combination of effects due to climate change, urbanization (in a desert, no less) and groups who seek to profit from the current water crisis. The great state of California, Southern California to be more precise, is not currently facing drought conditions like Texas, but simply does not have the water to supply its nearly 22.5 million inhabitants Southern California currently pumps in much of its water from the Colorado River, over the border with Arizona, uphill – 242 miles (390 km) along the…
