details. in fact i ve never seen one quite like it before. it s going to save water by mandating real reductions in a number of areas. it s going to affect golf courses, people s lawns, universities campuses all sorts of institutions vegetation on our roads and highways. it affects all of that. nobody knows how well people are going to comply with this new mandatory order from the state. this has never been done before. but they mean it when they say mandatory. there s going to be enforcement issues here. and a lot of the low hanging fruit, honestly is already picked in terms of conserveationconservation. likely heading into the fifth year of the drought. people have already been conserving water in california. so getting further big reductions is going to change people s lives in california. because it s going to be hard. but more than 93% of that state is now rated as being in severe
scarier. he had it marked on the snow stick, pointing out the bottom one. what happened in 1977. which is a legendary year the worst that anybody could imagine in california. the only thing california has been through in its history is a state that is as bad as what we re going through right now, at least approaching it that previous drought in 1976 and 1977. the governor of the state of california during that 1976 1977 drought, was the same guy who is governor today. less hair, same guy. left side of your screen jerry brown, governor in 1977 during the last worst terrible drought. on the right, governor jerry brown today, dealing with the only drought that has been as bad as that old one. same guy. back then in the 70s, everybody thought it was extreme. the state policy for dealing with that huge drought was to tell every water district in the state, you need to come up with your own water saving measures for your district. in every district it was different across the state.
apparently working like it is supposed to. hippos love delicious water hi a sinths. they re helping stockton with their problem. stockton brought in a second slightly cuddlier hi a sinth eater. these adorable little capibara in the river. they re giant swimming rodents that can eat 40 pounds of weeds per day. they negotiated with brazil somehow, got a bunch of them and alongside those hippos keep them apart. they re setting them loose hoping they re hungry hoping it will make a dent in stockton california s weed problem, freeing up the precious delta water for california s parched water system. and that is not true. i m sorry.
drought, extreme drought, or exceptional drought. more than 93% of the state. when the chair of the state water resources control board saw the snow pack numbers start to come in earlier this month, her statement about the snow pack, i quote, just terrifying. so california is pulling out all the stops, doing everything they can think to do. full disclosure my dad works on california water issues. he always has my whole life. i did not talk to him about this story today as i was prepping for air. i have to admit that my dad was the one who sent me the thing about the hippos. because he s my dad. he s adorable on this april fool s day. you know your dad would do the same thing. as they do. right now, buy one pair and get another free. sunday dinners at my house. it s a full day for me, and i love it. but when i started having back pain
carefully before investing. call us or your advisor. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. this is beautiful stockton, california. stockton, california nice place. basically due east from san francisco. stockton is on the san joaquin river in california. lovely stockton california, they have a weed problem. i don t mean it as a euphemism for marijuana. i have no idea how much pot they smoke in stockton or whether it s a problem. where they have a weed problem in stockton is actually in their river, in the san joaquin river. the weeds are so bad in that river, in the shipping channels that lead to the port in stockton they re overgrowing the delta and the river itself. there s an aqueduct around there that the weeds are clogging up and blocking not just the inflow