Farthest you can have a bug out

[Roninsensei]

It also doesn't help when they require those of us that have wells to use city water. They capped all the wells in our city and sold the water rights right out from under us. Had the Sheriff come out with warrants to shut the wells down. this happened in Hemet and Sun city. And they wonder why the drought is occurring?!

 

[Silent Earth]

But is not unregulated over extraction of water from the US Aquifers a major part of why the government has had to act?

 

[Maverick]

But is not unregulated over extraction of water from the US Aquifers a major part of why the government has had to act?

The government was/is the problem from the get go, mismanage by transferring water from one aquifer to one that didn't need it screwing the folks in the north (most recent). My wife professor out of Berkeley told her in the late 80s that the government was warned in California that the state can not sustain the level of growth and agriculture with the current water levels and that it would be a mistake to rely on the Colorado River because of growth in those regions the river feeds in the states the river runs through, it was also warned California will have to make a choice between developed communities and agriculture. The State didn't listen. I guess finger pointing doesn't help now and as @Roninsensei said above private wells being capped.

California been wanting to tap the Columbia River here since the early 90s both Washington and Oregon told em to get screwed (they really wasn't that blunt) California knew then they was going to have problems and did nothing!

 

[Silent Earth]

Thanks for that update its appreciated, Over here we rarely suffer major prolonged droughts and when we do the normal worst case scenario is hose pipe bans and car washes turned off. My old chum John from KS used to report how the Coloradans extracted so much water from the Canadian and Red rivers that they stopped flowing altogether before they reached KS.

 

[Alphonse]

It also doesn't help when they require those of us that have wells to use city water. They capped all the wells in our city and sold the water rights right out from under us. Had the Sheriff come out with warrants to shut the wells down. this happened in Hemet and Sun city. And they wonder why the drought is occurring?!

That's ********! I hate that. Its like that guy from Oregon who was arrested for collecting rain water (http://www.prisonplanet.com/man-in-oregon-jailed-for-collecting-rainwater.html)

 

[Alphonse]

The government was/is the problem from the get go, mismanage by transferring water from one aquifer to one that didn't need it screwing the folks in the north (most recent). My wife professor out of Berkeley told her in the late 80s that the government was warned in California that the state can not sustain the level of growth and agriculture with the current water levels and that it would be a mistake to rely on the Colorado River because of growth in those regions the river feeds in the states the river runs through, it was also warned California will have to make a choice between developed communities and agriculture. The State didn't listen. I guess finger pointing doesn't help now and as @Roninsensei said above private wells being capped.

California been wanting to tap the Columbia River here since the early 90s both Washington and Oregon told em to get screwed (they really wasn't that blunt) California knew then they was going to have problems and did nothing!

I feel like there are so many instances in which the government is warned, chooses not to listen and then screws over its citizens.