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Land of Sod
Southern California Homeowners vs Nature
Kormann, Carolyn http://harpers.org/archive/2016/09/land-of-sod/
Publisher: Harper's
Date Written: 01/09/2016
Year Published: 2016
Resource Type: Article
A look at the water crisis in Southern California, where fifty-percent of water is used to irrigate the lawns and gardens of residential properties. The freshwater shortages has brought about close media scrutiny, highlighting the differences between have and have-not neighbourhoods, as well as instances of 'water-shaming'.
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Since the state began keeping records, California has periodically experienced brief droughts, typically lasting around three years. Yet geophysical evidence indicates that the region has also known 200-year droughts, suggesting that modern California may have been built during an unusually wet century and is now returning to the drier norm. Compounding that possibility is climate change. The state's snowpack — which, like a water tank, accumulates reserves all winter and spills down meltwater all summer — is disappearing.
When state officials saw that the spring's snowpack was zilch, they were forced to start reckoning with the possibility that the drought wasn’t going to end.
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