Hana Eddib 6/4/15
Chemistry C block odd current event 13
Nagourney, Adam. "Californians Are Encouraged by Sharp Drop in Water Use." The New York Times. The New York Times, 02 June 2015. Web. 04 June 2015.
The article, “Californians Are Encouraged by Sharp Drop in Water Use” informs readers about California preserving their water to help decrease the droughts in the country. Governor Jerry Brown decided to make it mandatory for for Californians to cut back their water supply by twenty five percent. While people from California are struggling to reach twenty five percent, they did manage to cut back their water supply 13.5% which Max Gomberg, a scientist on the water resources board, said it, “showed evidence of a real effort”. Considering this is a non-agricultural movement, it was shocking to see more than half of the eligible farmers apply to the program to cut back water. In exchange farmers are assured they won’t face harsh cuts later. People have become so invested in this that farmers are trying to come up with ways to make this movement agricultural as well. Felicia Marcus, the chairwoman of the water control board, explains, “I’m sort of feeling like local communities are stepping up in a way they weren’t before”. However summer is coming up, the time of the year that Californians go through the most water. Marcus states that in order for California to survive they must continue to preserve their water as much as possible.
This article is important for our country as a whole. It informs us that it is possible to decrease the amount of droughts in the country through hard work. If people were motivated enough to preserve our water, they could be able to challenge themselves to help save the earth.
Although this article was very well written I wish the author would have provided more background details. I wish the author could have provided when the governor Jerry Brown decided to present this movement and whether it was hard or easy to pass it. It would have been nice to be given a date or time when Brown felt the need to pursue this. This would help readers visualize the process to preserve water. It also would have allowed for readers to see if it was an easy process or just appears easy. However, overall I think the author did an excellent job at writing this article. The author included a good simple summary that anyone could understand and gave an overview of what Californians are doing to continue preserving water.
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