According to Elisabeth Scheiter in Reporterre magazine, twelve million trees have already died in California “where the catastrophe announced by seeing spring 2015 in autumn color”. In the chronicle “La sécheresse en Californie menace la sécurité alimentaire des Etats-Unis” has published the drowning of Californian fields and orchards converted into agro-industry models.

Constipation turns its fourth year, the worst of 120 years. On April 1, Sierra Nevada governor Jerry Brown found in the mountains of Sierra Nevada, 2,000 meters high, yellow and dry grass instead of snow.

On that day, Brown decided on drastic measures: water cuts for all dwellings and companies, increased consumption of sources, prohibitions on watering the prairies of the portals of dwellings... Turn on the waste! The objective is to reduce by 25% the consumption recorded in 2013, as explained by Interior.

We have to react, because in the state that has called the United States Vegetable Garden the damage is obvious. "We cannot restrict water to farmers," said the governor, who added: The central valley that runs along 725 kilometers between Sierra Nevada and the mountains on the shore is the most fertile in the world.

Most salads, carrots, artichokes, tomatoes, broccoli and asparagus consumed in the United States were born in California, as were 84% of peaches and 94% of plums. Like 80 percent of the almonds that are eaten in the world. The agricultural industry absorbs 80 percent of California's total water.

Without waiting for the decisions of the authorities, the cuts are due to the lack of water itself. Last year, 500,000 hectares of land were abandoned. Losses of $1,500, 17,000 fewer jobs. This year, the number of uncultivated hectares can be doubled. Where will the crops that should have been harvested from them be produced?

As Scheiter said in his title, the Californian seal threatens the food security of the Yankees. 40 years ago, in 1975, most of the vegetables consumed had been produced less than a hundred kilometers away in the American region of Midwest: Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota... Since then, however, all agriculture has been converted to maize and soya, driven by large subsidies. Banning the production of vegetables to baserritars often in exchange for aid.

Now the Midwest could not voluntarily re-export the land industry to vegetables, as the machinery and facilities are burdened with debts to the neck. The lack of water in California has evidenced the weakness of the American food scheme.

‘California dreaming’ in a critical situation

Water has been the reason so many vegetables and fruits have been concentrated in California. In the 1930s, they became the most fertile fields. But the proliferation of supermarkets and the publicity of the agro-industrial industry caused consumers to claim vegetables and fruits all year round, and to answer them, it launched 3.6 million hectares of crops and orchards with the irrigation of California.

However, according to the song, “It Never Rains In Southern California,” it rains little in California, both in the South and in the North. And because the most industrialized and intensive peasants need water, those who have come close to the paradise of the 21st century. Lots of water.

Francesc Peirón has summarized the diagnosis of Californian thirst at the head: The end of ‘California style’. The movie mecca, the cradle of Disneyland, the technological intelligence of Silicon Valley, the aerospace industry, the bold search engines of precious metals, the base field of the EE.UU, which produces one third of the vegetables and two thirds of the fruits. It attracts thousands of people from outside, who come to the tourist to fulfill their dreams of life or enjoy their beauties. The only problem is that water has begun to exhaust the engine of all this wealth.

The authorities say that passersby have not been sufficiently aware of the problem. Those who saved 20% in 2014 barely reached 8%. Despite the fact that sanctions have been imposed on those who do not strictly comply with irrigation standards, the journalist has found those who wet the quiet and beautiful grass.

It will cost to reshape the dreams of California Style. The only houses, with green grass in front of the porch, with a small pool, with high water consumptions... The government subsidizes those who remove the grass and plant the garden that corresponds to the desert, and says that stones, cacti and aloe vers must be brought back into fashion.

It's not an easy change. Even the cities and the managers of the neighborhoods force the owners of the unique houses to maintain a very green mirror in front of the house: the laziness of a humble neighbor the prices of all the housing in the neighborhood. Many have started to green the dried herbs, which they couldn't water the grass. That is true! The reader will find the photos immediately on Google.

Beverly Hills, Palm Springs, Rancho Mirage -- in addition to the mythical cities, the urbanizations, springs and houses that give a topical image of California, are moist islands that feed on cheap water brought from afar in the middle of a vast countryside, actually closer to the desert. How to adapt them to the low consumption and aesthetic image demanded by the desert?

The street’s neighbors complain that the cutbacks are for them alone, with farmers being the main waste pickers. The baserritars are angry with the baserritars, who have organized their homes without heads. By the way, it's also fighting with ecologists for taking water out of rivers and wetlands to ensure a minimal flow of water. And as underground sources are still free, they dig deeper and deeper into their wells, their trees and their orchards looking for liquid to satiate them.

In recent years, new competitors have appeared in California in the digestion of underwater water: The California government has given them permission to, in addition to consuming large quantities of oil konpainiak.Ur through the fracking technique, be able to re-bury the dirty water from the black gold rain with its chemicals. The Earth Justice group has demanded and made it possible for dirty water not to be poured into water tables... From 2017.

In addition, the water used for fracking is sold to farmers. Chevron has recycled and sold to the baserritars a total of 760,000 barrels of crude to obtain 70,000 barrels of crude. Land tests have shown the toxins.

California was famous for gold XIX.ean. XXI.eko The engine of the Californian miracle has been moved by water. They have realised the drought situation.