Water is found everywhere on earth and is vital for our bodies and the planet as a whole. Water is the key ingredient for growth and sustaining life. It is found in abundance in some places like our rainforests and very little in other places like the deserts found in many places of the world. The majority of water is naturally unusable in the form of salt water in our world’s oceans as a liquid and also in solid form in glaciers, sea ice, snow and the polar ice caps. This water is largely unusable due to the high salinity content. A little less than 2% of water exists as groundwater, rivers, lakes, wetlands, and water found in the soil which is the key source of the water we use for consumption and irrigation. The remaining fraction of a percent of water is contained in our Earth’s atmosphere. Freshwater is not an unlimited resource available to us at all times. It is replenished as the hydrologic cycle completes its cycle and releases freshwater in the form of precipitation down on Earth’s surface and becomes groundwater which then flows into aquifers that can store large amounts of freshwater. Each year the amount of water in our aquifers decreases at higher and higher rates. As farmers need water to irrigate pastures for raising beef cattle, water their corn field and saturate their orchards, that water when not produced in the form of rainfall, is pulled from our aquifers at alarming rates. In San Diego County, it is no secret that we get very little rainfall, in our wettest county we may get 45 inches of rain and in our driest 9 counties we get an average of 9 inches. As a result, we suffer from ongoing dry periods that make the need for water very evident. Globally, freshwater is abundant but is not evenly distributed across each continent, especially in North America and more precisely in the United States and more closer to home in California. California’s interconnected water system is a very complicated system that