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Critical Point: Water Crisis
00:02:41
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| In California today, to water an acre of water has gone up hundreds and hundreds of percentage high. | |
| It's like $2,000. | |
| It's $2,200. | |
| $2,200 to water one acre, one acre of farm ground. | |
| And some of these farmers have thousands of acres that they need to be watered. | |
| Enough to cover a football field to water. | |
| That's what they're paying for water in California. | |
| $2,200. | |
| If people knew how fragile California is, basically all their water comes from one source for Los Angeles and all that area. | |
| That's right. | |
| I mean, and what this is going to do, we've been talking about how the last three years California has been experiencing drought. | |
| And this last year has been a record-setting year as far as drought goes in California. | |
| So we've already been experiencing food prices going up. | |
| All this is going to do with the farmers paying $2,200 per acre to water it. | |
| Well, it's going to affect the food prices even more. | |
| They're going to even go higher now. | |
| Do you know what they're worried about with this water shortage? | |
| They're worried about rolling blackouts. | |
| Oh, boy. | |
| We are on the brink of something beyond. | |
| Everything seems to be at critical point. | |
| Our national grid is a critical point. | |
| Our food source, critical point. | |
| Our banking, critical point. | |
| I've never seen America all at one time come together in a perfect storm. | |
| Everybody shaking. | |
| Your food's going up. | |
| Your gas is going up. | |
| I mean, for 44 years, has anyone seen it like this before? | |
| No. | |
| Even in the Carter days when we gas lines, everything else worked. | |
| Everything else was okay. | |
| The problem with the gas, those guys over there were causing this trouble. | |
| Everything, everything at one time seems to break. | |
| Infrastructure. | |
| Our bridges are falling apart. | |
| Everything is a crisis. | |
| Do they have a saying in Scotland when you were a little boy? | |
| The mothers or grandmothers say, son, you're getting too big for your bridges. | |
| For your bridges. | |
| Have you ever heard that? | |
| We say bricks instead of britches. | |
| Bricks. | |
| These are your bricks. | |
| Don't be too big for your bricks. | |
| America has become too big for her bridges. | |