Water problem in California
Water problem in California has been traced back to the history of man-made following the failure of state founding water policy from 1850 hence there are no water policies carried in the scientific, rational, or demographic method. Due to poor state infrastructures, the construction of more efficient and sustainable water system as well as the sewage system has not been established due to the delayed funding from the federal, local level and the state accused of channeling the public resources to corporations through tax cuts and incentives (Brooks & Emily, 2017). Due to the recent privatization of firm’s capital flows directly to the individual firms denying the local development of the projects denying the rights for larger portions human rights like basics to access clean water.it is however believed that the state of the water crisis in California developed after the second world war causing the state water resources to undergo a significant alteration fueled by Gold Rush. Following the increase of the state population, gold mining facilitated the pollution of the water systems across California with mine tailings (Johnson et al., 2017). However the efforts made to protect pollution by the court in favor of agriculture, as well as commercial development, failed. The continued growth of the population in the city resulted in the continued pollution resulting in the water crisis due to the continued failure of implementing the proper methods to prevent water pollution along the rivers.
It has been shown that most of the individuals affected by the issues of water pollution in California are the residents, thus they are unable to access clean water for domestic use and consumption thus, it creates an impression that the federal the local and the state government are neglecting their basic rights like the one to access the clean water despite paying taxes that could be used in developing water channels (Fischer et al., 2018). Alternatively having been an agricultural area and the commercial development area most of the individuals in the sector are affected as much of the water sources in the area have been polluted affecting their daily activities.
Despite the situation some of the individuals have proved to have different reactions towards the issue right from the corporate interests, agribusiness sector, and real estate have given out their concerns on the issue some supporting and some protesting against the situation. Thus locals and the individuals from the agribusiness sector have opposed the issue raised on the privatization of water following the raised prices of water services. However, the private organization supports the issue of privatization, private sectors real estate and water departments support the issue following their interest in the water business during the crisis. Thus, it denies individual rights to access clean water as the basic need resulting in a demonstration on the legalization of water banks among the private sectors. On the crisis, the actors involved include the federal, state, and the local government that provides suicides to the private sector on improving water services towards accessing clean water. We have other actors like the real estate, law agencies on the law enforcement and legalization, agribusiness actors, the residents, and commercial sectors that are all affected by the water crisis in California in various ways resulting in different reactions on the same due to the individual interest. The different organizations like the American society of civil engineers, the public-private- partnership organization have taken an interest in resolving the issue of water crisis pointing out that much resources need to be allocated to enhance clean water access to all in the coming 20 years.
Works cited
Brooks, Emily. “Number narratives: abundance, scarcity, and sustainability in a California water world.” Science as Culture 26.1 (2017): 32-55.
Johnson, Christopher W., Yuning Fu, and Roland Bürgmann. “Seasonal water storage, stress modulation, and California seismicity.” Science 356.6343 (2017): 1161-1164.
Fischer, Mary, Colton Montgomery, and Treba Marsh. “California Water: Why It’s Not Just About Using Less.” Journal of Strategic Innovation and Sustainability 13.4 (2018): 83-92.