Comrades come and gather round
we have found water
in your thirsty ground
precious as it is to you
we will sell it back
it’s true
grow your crops
or let them die
what is it to us
if hungry children cry
***
Pictures speak 1000 words. These pictures are within miles of each other in California’s Central Valley.
You guessed it the beautiful water filled canal supplies water to the corporate farm.
The independent farms (family owned ) are left to go back to scrub brush.
Fracking is not helping the problem!
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Wow!! I had no idea!
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It is so wrong for one area to keep dams and block others out of the system through economics or any means. I find it so unfair that a resolution has never been reached for those independent farms! (There is an upside to fracking though; gas companies do pay premium prices for land leases where they may or may not frack, But, they pay the farmers lease money regardless. Even in small towns or villages where someone may only have a small lot. Most of the time you never know they are there except for the occasional substations. I have seen entire areas economically boom from the boost. Large farms could be saved in some areas.)
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Isn’t it awful to say what do we care if hungry children cry?
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Alas too much truth in those lines.
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… and not enough agua!!
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California is definitely living on borrowed water. The catastrophe that awaits should serve as a lesson to the rest of the country…and the world. But will it? I doubt it. Islands sink into the ocean, people are displaced but we continue to rape resources like plundering Huns.
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It’s ridiculous they know how to conserve – they just have been lazy.
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It is going to get even worse, kiddo. As a Canadian, I fear American takeover for our water-rich resources. And fracking is an abomination. Argh. Thanks for spreading awareness.
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I understand why. It is frightening for the region but also for our world
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