Where Did the Water Go? a PowerTalk - Minarets High School English

Hi!I’m Matt, and I live in California.

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Minarets High School

Sierra Foothill Photography 2014

I live where all those fires are.

Facebook 2014

We’re also experiencing a

drought.

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...which got me thinking...

Where did the water go?

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National Geographic 2014

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Tulare County

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What do the coastal cities do with our water?

???

Aquafina 2014

Aquafina 2014

Is Aquafina still being offered everywhere?

What about the farmers?

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•Damming & Rerouting the water

•Bottling the water

•Agricultural Exports

What can we do?

STOP BOTTLING THE WATERor

allow its sale (in glass) containers to locals only

(so it stays in our ecosystem)

STOP THE WATER FROM LEAVINGDecommission the dams, canals & pipesMicrodam, swale & plant the keyline to

bring back the ground water, the forest along the valley ridges, & the rain

AND WHAT ABOUT FARMING?!?!

No Chemical Fertilizer, Pesticide, or Herbicide $$$$

Use 20% the Water used now with No Till & Mulching

Higher Yield through DiversificationPerennial-based Agriculture=More $$$

& Less Work over time

Encourage all the other states to start building their own

soils & buying from their local farmer.

What about all the agricultural $$$ we’ll

lose?!?!

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Where’s Tulare Lake?

Invisible5.org 2014

Where there’s water, there’s life.

The best thing anyone can do is...

Harvest your roof rainwater

Garden

Recharge your landscape with keyline swales

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What else?

Popular Mechanics 1933.

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Supergreensolutions.com 2014

We have the science; we have the answers.It’s up to us to utilize them.