Water Drought Might Be My New Topic

ALMADEN RESERVOIR
Water Drought in California
As I was researching more to consider another research topic I came across an article in the San Jose Mercury News and it grabbed my attention. I had already researched about the weather in San Jose, the city is not getting enough rain and the reservoirs are dry. In the San Jose Mercury News I found appealing to read and know about our water drought in California and its outcome. The article “Drought to cut off federal water to Calif. farms” by Garance Burk, said this shortage of water is affecting everyone in California. They are planning to cut off water for the farmers, courage people to reduce usage of water because it will affect everyone since we are in a recession. This can be a good research topic, because I can narrow down my research of the reservoirs in Northern California. I can also research people in San Jose, for example the farmers or get a statistics of how much water people use in their homes. In addition, I can include the affects of cost in food and water in our homes. Burk mention how farmers are trying to keep their plantations and usage of water wisely, but farmers have already layoff a lot of people. Water is very important and if we do not reduce the usage, farmers will not have other options, but to buy well water and it will only affect us to pay a lot more for food. Arnold Schwarzenegger, in another article “Schwarzenegger declares Calif. Drought emergency” by Samantha Young in her article the state water director said, agriculture will probably lose 2.8 million dollars and cost 95,000 jobs (Snow, Mercury News). In this article Arnold Schwarzenegger called out in emergency because the reservoir needs help and we are not getting rain, so therefore he order the state Department of Water Resources to spread as much water to the dry reservoirs. This is a serious problem and I hope people in San Jose will not have to experience a high cost of food and not worry cutting down our water usage.