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This photo was from several months ago. 🙁

Source: http://gizmodo.com/how-bad-is-californias-drought-this-bad-1531567081/all

I don’t say this lightly,

but oh fuck

I live in LA so I just thought I’d add a little more information about this for those of you who don’ know a lot about the drought. 

here’s the latest updated map I could find

All of California is now in a moderate drought and above. As of August, over half of California is turning into the dark red zone, which is an exceptional drought, which is, of course, very bad. In fact, it’s gotten so bad that we are fined to up to $500 if we are seen wasting water (sprinklers watering the pavement instead of plants, etc), and some cities are enforcing water rationing laws.

Our agriculture and economy is even being affected. Many farmers are losing their jobs because their plants are dying and not being watered enough. Some farmers are tearing down many of their crops so that the water that would have been used for those can be used for other crops. I should remind you that California provides over half of the country’s food, so this will not only affect the people who live in California, but everyone in the U.S. as well.

There’s also a chance that if the drought continues for the next year, then there’s a chance that we might have to migrate out of California.

So, for those of you living in California, please conserve your water! Every drop counts! Even doing little things like throwing the ice cube you dropped into a plant to water it instead of throwing it into the sink will help! For more ways to save water, check here

sources: x x x x 

Here’s Lake Shastina, where my town Montague gets its water:

That was taken in April. The last delivery from it came this week; now we’re holding our breath to see if an emergency pipeline will be ready to take over in mid-September, or if we’ll be trucking in water from Yreka, the next town over. (Though my partner and I actually live way on the outskirts, with our own well. Lucky fuckin us.)

And here are the deer that spotted me watering a plant from a bucket:

And I know, I know you shouldn’t feed and water the wild things, but even though stags are notoriously shy, they heard and smelled that water and came right into the yard. I didn’t have the heart to drive ‘em off. Lil’ fuzzyhorns.