Yes, I also commented that this information is out of date. A lot has happened since this data was developed.

A lot has happened since this was published on March 2. Basically, it is out of date.

Let's build a megalopolis in a desert! What could possibly go wrong?

All I've said is ninety-percent is bullshit, and to say that they meant by ninety-nine percent is "a lot" is hilarious. Ninety-nine percent is the whole pie, subtracting a meager one percent is insignificant by anyone's standards.

I mean sure, the idea that it’s ninety nine percent on the dot seems a bit suspicious - it’s prob just a number being used to sound like ‘a lot’.

The last article I read on this topic about a month ago soar california has something like 60% of its expected water use met for this year.. which I’m guessing is what they’re trying to express, that despite all the rain it’s still not adequate for the states water use needs.

I get that; but ninety-nine percent is news sensationalism. Coastal and inland regions have been saturated for three months and a heightened snowpack means replenishment in ground water through spring. Some areas in the valley may still be in drought conditions but to say that ninety-nine percent (even from January's figures) is a lie.

No, will probably use Apple or Foreca for the feee version. But you can change the weather source if you pay.

does it have anything to do with nestle raping the public water reserves for profit?

The problem is that people have been pumping too much groundwater and that takes a long time to replenish. In some places the wells have already run dry. Precipitation alone cannot solve that problem.

I said I suspect most of Bing's revenue comes from China. Given that they have 14% market share in China and 6% in the US, that wasn't a bad suspusion. Every analysis shows China uses Bing more than the US does. I'm not sure where you're looking but since the person posted the 14% thing I've not found anything to support your points.

I'm also not sure why this is your hill to die on. I'm speaking about my experience in China. If your experience there was difference fair enough.

Putting surface water into an aquifer would be a natural disaster and would actualy contaminate the ground water.

Aquaifer water is naturally purified as water moves down through the ground. You can drink it without treatment. (most of the time).

Now, if we used large, underground caverns to store flood water for future treatment, that would be something. But flood water is full of bacteria, and unfortunately a lot of man made shit like plastic, heavy metals and chemics which can't be easily filter or separated by conventional water treatment.

For anyone in CA questioning this…

The article is from early March, they’re pulling from mid-January data which was only after the new years storms - which didn’t do a whole lot to alleviate the drought on their own - and officials were consistent in saying one big (series) of storms wouldn’t get CA out of the drought.

However CA has been drenched since and the latest drought monitor map (released today) shows only 36.4% of the state is in any kind of drought. None of the state is in extreme or exceptional drought anymore. And that data doesn’t include (most of) this week’s storms.

https://www.drought.gov/states/california#web-resources-state

Those are some confusing charts.

exactly. Why is California in a drought after they’ve sucked the ground completely dry of natural resources for tens of years. California’s natural resources can’t support the number of people they’re trying to house.

I believe it comes down to retention of water rather than amount of rainfall or snow pack.

If you have an empty glass and fill it with ten times the amount of water it can fit, which then spills over onto the floor - you don’t have ten glasses of water, you still have one glass of water and the rest is on the floor (or in the ocean). There are currently only about five reservoirs with additional recharge capability and two to three more under way - meaning despite the amount of rain a significant amount is lost and when summer arrives the water retained will be used up as it typically would.

I think you also have to considered how the water cycle works as well as the soils in California, in which a number of areas most likely just see the water run off into waterways to the ocean, used by farms and high water sources like golf courses.

"Why you still have gingivitis despite brushing that one time"

I'm sorry but this article is categorically false; there is no way ninety-nine percent of California is in drought conditions after the rain we have continued to have. Glad they got their check for their article but the sensationalism of it is bullshit, showing me pretty graphs doesn't support your argument when we've now had sustained months of rainfall, snowpack, and reservoirs coming back to healthy levels.

It is because the article uses data up to mid-January as noted at the bottom "The drought data shows data up to the week of Jan. 17, 2023. Precipitation data is recent as of January, 2023" despite the article being published this month (without the most recent 2 months of data).

Even if you were to recharge an aquifer this way you still run into the treatment issue. The majority of groundwater sources are not treated and if you pump surface water into them they’re now contaminated

Maybe we could have spent those billions of dollars on that high speed rail project on something like this. We spend money on stupid shit here.

I’ve noticed that the radar forward casting in the apple version is awful. Like you cross “now” and the entire storm front makes a hard direction turn.

So I don’t actually trust it at all, where with DarkSky and some other apps if they said “rain starting in 6 minutes” I’d feel fine going for a 5 minute walk.

I don't doubt what you're saying, but why say 99.7% and link to a source that says 55.34%?

Aquifers aren't necessarily big underground lakes in a cavern. The water is often spread throughout the substrate kind of like a sponge. When you take the water out, it doesn't just leave empty space, the ground around it fills the void. To reopen and fill those voids would require pressure -which is costly.

There are things called recharge dams which sort of do this though. Problem here again though is cost. Usually other methods are cheaper which is why we don't see that kind of thing very much.

Flood water is contaminated.

No, you're comment was that most of Bings revenue comes from China. That's not what the data says, that's not even what your experience says. Sure, some people (14%) use bing in china. That does not mean most of their revenue comes from China. Data says it's about 30%, more ore less equal to the revenue from the us. You're experience means jack shit...