Is California Entering a Megadrought?
Climate One
Climate One
4.7 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2016
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:52.0 | From the Commonwealth's Club of California, this is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton. El Nino has come and gone, and La Nina is stirring in the Pacific Ocean. On the show today, we will learn what the rains of 2016 did for California's reservoirs and what we can expect next year. We'll hear about new research suggesting that California should expect more |
| 1:12.0 | dry times ahead. Some scientists suggest California may even be heading into a megadrought that could |
| 1:18.4 | last for decades, which has happened in the past. After El Nino sent storms to the state last winter, |
| 1:24.6 | the Brown administration relaxed some water restrictions, allowing regional |
| 1:28.3 | authorities to decide how to manage the worst drought in the state's modern history. |
| 1:33.3 | The governor also made permanent bans on certain activities, such as hosing off sidewalks, |
| 1:39.3 | and washing cars with hoses that don't have shut off valves. |
| 1:43.3 | Some question if those gestures even matter |
| 1:45.6 | when 80% of the state's water goes to agriculture, which has a reputation for playing fast and |
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