Unelected bureaucrats in California are moving to usher in water rationing and other restrictions that align with the water crisis agenda recently promoted by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
As Slay News previously reported, a WEF official declared that a coming water crisis will be used to control the public and advance the globalist agenda of the unelected corporate elite.
WEF spokesperson Professor Mariana Mazzucato argues that a crisis centered around “water” will “deliver” where “Covid” and “climate change” both “failed.”
“You need water,” Mazzucato asserted during a panel discussion before an audience of salivating globalists.
Mazzucato made the call during WEF’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
During the discussion, Mazzucato, who is listed as one of the WEF’s “agenda contributors,” was lamenting how Covid and “climate change” failed to usher in a world government.
She then laid out her case for how a water crisis will be the catalyst that imposes a world government upon humanity.
“Did we actually manage to vaccinate everyone in the world? No,” Mazzucato, founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, said during a WEF forum on the “Economics of Water.”
“So highlighting water as a global commons and what it means to work together and see it both out of a global commons perspective but also the self-interest perspective, because it does have that parallel, is not only important, but it’s also important because we haven’t managed to solve those problems which had similar attributes.
“And water is something that people understand.
“Climate change is a bit abstract,” she said, waving her arms in the air.
“Some people understand it really well, some understand it a bit, some just don’t understand it.”
“Water, every kid knows how important it is to have water.
“When you’re playing football and you’re thirsty, you need water,” she noted.
“So there’s also something about really getting citizen engagement around this and really in some ways experimenting with this notion of the common good.”
“Can we actually deliver this time in ways we have failed miserably other times?” she added.
“And hopefully we won’t keep failing on the other things, but anyway.”
A clip of Mazzucato’s comments was shared online by the popular Twitter/X account Wide Awake Media.
The caption of the video states:
“World Economic Forum ‘agenda contributor,’ Mariana Mazzucato: Our attempt to vaccinate the entire planet failed, ‘climate change’ is ‘too abstract’ for people to understand, but the coming water crisis is something that everyone will get on board with.”
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World Economic Forum "agenda contributor", Mariana Mazzucato: Our attempt to vaccinate the entire planet failed, "climate change" is "too abstract" for people to understand, but the coming water crisis is something that everyone will get on board with.
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— Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) September 30, 2023
Now, officials in California appear to be rolling out this agenda in the real world.
A misguided set of laws is being put in place by globalist bureaucrats to remove the incentive for water agencies to invest in water abundance.
On October 4 the California State Water Board held a hearing to discuss how it will implement Senate Bill 1157.
The legislation was passed by the state legislature in 2022.
The bill lowers indoor water-use standards to 47 gallons per person starting in 2025 and 42 gallons in 2030.
The title of the hearing was “Making Water Conservation a Way of Life.”
However, “rationing” would be a more apt term for what is being ushered in for California’s households.
Water conservation has been a way of life in California for decades.
Despite the growth of the state’s population to over 39 million today, total urban water consumption in the state has been falling each year since the mid-1990s.
At just over 7 million acre-feet (MAF) per year in 2022, urban water consumption hasn’t been this low since 1985.
In 1985, the population of the state was just 26 million.
That’s not enough, however, for California’s water bureaucrats, and the green agenda organizations they answer to.
As they move toward implementing S.B. 1157, their officially stated goal is to reduce total urban consumption by 400,000 acre-feet per year by 2030.
Yet, when compared with California’s total water withdrawals per year, this figure is only small.
Diversions are captured rainfall that is released from reservoirs during the summer and fall.
Diversions for agriculture average 30 MAF per year, more than four times the urban use.
To maintain ecosystem health, diversions range between 20 MAF in dry years to over 60 MAF in wet years.
A reduction of 400,000 acre-feet in urban water consumption represents barely more than one-half of 1 percent of the amount of water California diverts and manages even in its driest years.
To implement such a massively intrusive regime of rationing for such a meager result is perhaps a textbook example of diminishing returns.
Anyone living in California, or visiting from out of state, has seen evidence of what has already been done.
Faucets in commercial buildings and airports release barely enough water to get your hands wet and automatically turn off before you’ve rinsed away the soap.
Washing machines use hardly any water, violently tossing and damaging delicate clothing, taking hours to complete a cycle, and requiring multiple cycles to get clothes clean.
Dishwashers are so ineffective that dishes need to be hand-washed before they are loaded into the dishwasher.
Flow restrictors on shower heads make it impossible to rinse shampoo out of long hair.
Yet according to the state legislature, these measures don’t go far enough.
Next on the list are lawns, and by extension, trees.
It is a fact, perhaps willfully ignored by environmental activists masquerading as responsible investigative journalists, that when lawns are allowed to die, the mature trees growing on those lawns also die.
This is because the root system has adapted to surface watering.
Yet, lawns have now become a target of green agenda activists.
Turf lawns are on average 30 degrees cooler than asphalt and can be as much as 40 degrees cooler than artificial turf, according to the Department of Energy.
Lawns also lower the urban heat-island effect and absorb runoff during storms to reduce flooding and recharge aquifers.
As for toxic fertilizers, widely applied to lawns, these can be regulated or restricted.
But instead, California’s legislature is banning lawns on commercial properties.
Expect water agencies, faced with draconian mandates to reduce their supply, to impose similar bans on homeowners.
None of this is necessary, however.
California’s original water plan, written in 1957, called for an eventual statewide system capable of delivering 40 MAF to farms each year, and 10 million acre-feet to cities.
As it has turned out, what they envisioned was never completed.
But it is nonetheless the most remarkable system of inter-basin water transfers in the world, delivering around 30 MAF per year to California’s farmers and around 7 million acre-feet to the cities.
Compared to the magnificent projects completed in the 1950s and 1960s, it would not take much additional investment to bring the total for cities back up to 9 million acre-feet, which is where it was in the 1990s.
Skeptics will point out that California may be experiencing more severe droughts.
But they will also acknowledge that there will in some years be winters, such as the one we just lived through, where the entire state is inundated with prolonged and heavy rains.
In the water season just ended in California, over 25 MAF of water passed through the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta and out to the Pacific.
This is easily more than twice what is required for the health of delta ecosystems.
If that water had been stored, it would have offered enough supplemental supply to easily withstand several years of drought.
There are many ways to store this water that fulfill reasonable environmentalist sensibilities.
For example, channels cut into delta islands can have gravity-fed French drains that move water without harming fish.
Engineering studies indicate that a 200-acre site could move 15,000 acre-feet per day during storms, and this water could be stored in vacant underground aquifers that are, just in the San Joaquin Valley alone, conservatively estimated to have a capacity of 75 MAF.
What is being put in place today in California is a misguided set of laws that only seek to align with a globalist agenda to control the public water supply.
The laws remove the incentive for water agencies to invest in more water supplies.
These laws will actually fine water agencies if they deliver too much water to their urban customers.
To achieve the resilience that Californians are going to need in the future, whether it’s to adapt to prolonged droughts or to cope with other potential disruptions to a precarious network of pipelines, pumping stations, and aqueducts, precisely the opposite policy should be California’s legislative priority.
Water agencies need to be incentivized to increase their supply capacity, not reduce it.
Water is life. Having as much as we need, affordable and abundant, is a goal that is achievable and sustainable.
It’s time for Californians to reject extremist mandates and restore the quality of life that is in keeping with their heritage.
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