Success of Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times Columnist

Tim Rutten a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, he started as a columnist for the calendar section in 2002, and he also participated in the Times Pulitzer Prize-winning team coverage of the 1994 Northridge earthquake, and he won a 1991 award from the Greater Los Angeles Press Club in editorial writing. While Rutten attended University of California Los Angeles, he majored in political science, and wrote an excellent article on the issue regarding the water shortage in California, which gives him the interest in what the State of California is going to do about the water crises and the political view of it.

California is in one of the most severe droughts that have resulted in farms and ranches pulling out crops and trying to find ways to water then fields. California Department of Food and Agriculture, the statistics from 2012, states that, California produces 15% of the national total of food, 7.1% of the United States livestock production. California also produces 400 different commodities, which accounts for nearly half the United States fruit, nuts, and vegetables. In addition California ranked number one in 2012 for largest cash receipts totaling in 44.7 billion with an average farm size of 431 acres versus the rest of the states that has an average farm size of less than 300. Rutten quotes in his article “When American astronauts stood on the moon and looked back toward Earth, there were only two works of man that they could glimpse with the naked eye: One was the Great Wall of China and the other was the California Aqueduct (though may not be true in reality)” (Tim Rutten 1). Sadly, this is no longer true that you can see the California Aqueduct due to the loss in water.

Rutten does a very good job on giving percentages a...

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...want water to be able to have food, we need to focus more on where it needs to be flowing and how it needs to be distributed among the state of California.

In closing of this response I believe that Tim Rutten writer for the Los Angeles Times, did an excellent job of using statistics and his thoughts on the issue at hand. This is an excellent sores for my paper because it gives all the appropriate reason to why California needs water to be able to sustain the growth of a growing economy and still export foods around the world and to other states. California is in the worst drought of the century and if the government doesn’t wipe the slate clean and start from scratch on the issue of water shortage California will no longer be able to produce 15% of the nation’s food because we will have no water to grow the food that is needed to grow the food that is in demand.