Jerry Brown orders mandatory water reductions amid California drought
By David Siders
The Sacramento Bee
Apr 1, 2015
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With California slogging into its fourth year of withering drought, Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday ordered mandatory water reductions of 25 percent in cities and towns across the state.

The administration said it was the first time a governor has ever ordered the State Water Resources Control Board to implement mandatory water reductions, with implications for everyone from farmers to city-dwellers and their lawns.

--- This whole idea that California must take action to offset a major drought caused by a lack of rainfall over several years may very well be based on a false premise. See below. ---

Primary Water Theories

Bloom the Desert
http://bloomthedesert.com/primary-water-theories

The key theory is that primary water is formed deep inside the crystalline rock strata of the Earth’s crust or mantle. One view is that this water may be formed as a residue from volcanoes under the Earths surface. These eruptions create gas that either escape to the surface as gas or turn into primary water. That is, these gases are electrically and chemically fired into the rock itself and the rock fuses the water out...

Historically, all water is believed to come only from the hydrologic cycle. Yet, a growing body of evidence suggests that water might be generated deep within the Earth in great quantity. The Riess Institute at its Totten Field Laboratory, over the last decade, has drilled, collected and tested waters captured from great depths in a number of bore holes. Totten well 3, at 2,000 metres, known to be the deepest 10cm cored water research well in the continental US. Results from Totten 3 now indicate some waters there may not be part of the hydrologic cycle at all, but rather from deep-seated geologic interaction within the Earth's interior.