News10.net | Sacramento, California | Local News Feds: Central Valley in Severe Drought Other editions: Mobile | Text Alerts | RSS | E-Newsletters | Living Green | CalMoms | News10Cars | Sac & Co | Jobs | Make Us Your Homepage All :: Articles :: Events :: Videos more >> Sponsored by: HomeNewsNews HomeLocalNationalWorldGood MorningLiving GreenPoliticsGood News / Good PeopleNews LinksMost PopularMoneyCheap GasSurviving the Economy Science & TechnologyDTV-conversion VideoLifeLife HomeHealthFashion & StyleTravelCalifornia PostcardFitness Tips Live OnlineTrafficTraffic HomeTraffic MapsTravel TimesTraffic ForecastTransit ResourcesTraffic Talk WeatherWeather HomeDopplerWeather 101Weather10.2 SportsSports HomeNascarSports Blogs EntertainmentEntertainment HomeMusic SceneMoviesMumm at the MoviesThe Movie GuyMovie Listings ABC ShowsGames/ContestsReno/TahoeThe Web Surfer EducationEducation HomeTeacher of the YearTeacher of the MonthStudent ScholarCollege Prep HelpRace and EducationWeather 101 On TVOn TV HomeProgramming GuideSacramento & Company CommunityCommunity HomeNews10 EventsTools for SchoolsPhoto GalleriesYour VideoBlogsForumsPublic ServiceDo Something GoodNews10 Community Calendar About UsAbout Us HomeBiosJobsContact UsAdvertise With UsInternships Comment, blog & share photos Log in | Become a member Feds: Central Valley in Severe Drought Posted By: C. Johnson 23 hrs ago Read Comments Print Article Email Article Larger Smaller CENTRAL VALLEY, CA - Interior California is experiencing severe drought conditions, according to the most recent data compiled by the federal government. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center and the U.S. Drought Mitigation Center released the accompanying map Thursday based on data compiled Tuesday. It shows the Central Valley under extremely dry conditions. On June 4, Gov. Schwarzenegger declared a statewide drought following two straight years of below-average rainfall and below normal snowpack runoff. Court-ordered federal water transfers also play into the conditions. Numerous California communities have enacted water use restrictions because of declining water supplies. Folsom Lake and Lake Oroville are experiencing some of their lowest levels in years, which is impacting consumer and recreational use. News10/KXTV Copyright 2008 / All Rights Reserved In your voice Read reactions to this story Report item as: (required) X Obscenity/vulgarity Hate speech Personal attack Advertising/Spam Copyright/Plagiarism Other Comment: (optional) hookeye wrote: At any library, there are the US weather service rainfall records, on reserve. If you analyze them, you will discover that 70% of the time the rainfall in Sacramento is less than average. All of the water allotments are based on average. Seven of ten years, there are the refrains that it is a "drought". It is specious. Why do they do this? 85% of all the water in the Central Valley project goes to "farmers". Six of the seven largest farmers are owned by banks, oil companies, and a railroad. 70% of that water goes to grow crops to raise cattle in a desert. They pay less than ten cents on the dollar "for only the water that is delivered". The losses getting it to them are not paid for. 11% goes to industry and 4% goes to "people". And of that portion for "people", 70% goes to water lawns and fill swimming pools. So... The drive to build more dams to send more water to people is a "BIG LIE". Which repeated often enough, and in enough different ways, leads people to believe that thought of the "drought' as being real, and as due their thinking. PG&E bought up the rights to all the watersheds in California in the 40's ands 50's. The own the rights to build the planned multiple dams on every watercourse in the Sierras, and to cut down all the trees in those watersheds where the dams will be, and sell them. For by definition, drought is an absence of water... They use a partial truth to tell a lie.... 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