The lake isn't "flooded", it's returned to where it once was. It's the farms and town that aren't supposed to be at the bottom of the lake.

I hope the Lake will completely refill to its highest level as fast as possible.

Let it be the great lake it once was

Clearly this lake needs to be there.

I like to preserve it original lake like before. This may have been the reason that California keep having drought. The water and precipitation cycke disrupted when the settlers drained the lake to farm. If the lake is kept at it natural stage without human interference, drought would be less frequent to none.

Declare a ecological zone and allow the lake to become at least a semi-occurring wetland

I just love thay california is finally getting its waters back filling lakes and reservoirs esapecily here in the central valley

I live in Tulare County and I would rather have Tulare Lake than a bunch of farms that are growing a bunch of non-native water intensive crops. Please bring back this common good for the people.

She meant aquifer not aqueduct, lol. I have empathy for them coming from a Ag background myself but when you build in a dry lake bed, only dry because you diverted the rivers you have to expect this.

There was a lake before there was valuable farmland

I don’t feel sorry for the farmers. It’s their fault for building and growing on a dry lake bed thinking it would be dry forever

If the El Niño is a wet one that lake will be huge!

This is wonderful!!!! The lake returned.

It’s just really hard to feel sad about this…

The lake bottom land is still there. It's still a lake bottom, but like other natural lakes, it's a wet lake again. Geography matters. Teach your children well.

Let Tulare Lake live and return it to the Yokuts!

Thank God for the rain🌧

All the farming structures are not supposed to be there. People are naïve they actually believe that the lake was gone. This has nothing to do with climate change, it’s the cycle of nature that turning on and off as it wish.

California: “help! We’re in a draught! It’s a sure sign that humans are irreversibly damaging the environment!” Also California: “it’s terrible! The lake we drained a hundred years ago came back and now we can’t grow our pistachios!”

In today world the environmentalist would protect Tulare lake and all the species around it. What a difference 100 years makes.

add loads of beavers to it , they dont eat fish and they will make the area extremely fertile also add loads of fish and if it never dries up it will be a great fishery.

Hopefully it's helping to replenish ground water. That is the area of CA that's sinking isn't it.

Mother nature always wins long live the lake

If I owned flooded farm land I'd look at replicating Chinampas: floating garden beds

Nature always fight back,they should keep the lake as it is and find new place to farm

The restoration of the Tulare Lake watershed would greatly improve the quality of life and natural landscape of the southern San Joaquin Valley - which people think is a desert - but it was actually greener than the Northern Central Valley AKA the Sacramento Valley. The opportunities for recreation and even prime real estate which is what California is all about is probably the only thing that would get people to want to protect it.

Let the lake reign.

California cries when it has no water and cries more when it has too much. For being an economic powerhouse plagued by droughts or floods one year to the next maybe commit to more water storage. A lot of it.

Throw some fish in there make it a fishing destination

Great story. It's going to leave a vert fertile top soil after it recedes.

Man took this lake 130 yrs ago from the indians. Now God gives it back. How wonderful ! Hopefully God makes the water stay, it belongs there.

We need to keep the lake!!!

At 2:01 she calls it a "full-on ecosystem". It was that historically, but a temporary flood does not allow the aquatic plants, fish, invertebrates, etc. to suddenly appear.

So they complain if there's a lack of water, and they complain once that water is replenished.

Water is Life

"The Colonizers", good lord.

Save the lake, please

loss of vegetables turns to gain of many species of fish.

lake is much better for california than the farmland is now. we get cheaper produce from other states or even from mexico.

they all seem stunned that weather changes, that when it rains...lakes and ponds form. Isn't this a good enough topic for you warmingdoomers?

Stupid whoever decided to use an old lake bed as farm land. Hope that lake stays there for years to come. 🙌🏽

It would be nice if it returned to its old size and depth naturally.

I love that she actually said "then we came and colonized it" love when people dont shy from speaking truth the right way

What? The heat to melt more snow? It doesn’t sound like Tulare lake is going any where any time soon. We have so much land, why can’t they move and make this a permanent water reservoir?

I ain’t no tree hugging soy boy. But I’m rooting for the lake

Lol at the guy asking how long the lake will be there even though she literally just said it a minute earlier.

It's Aquifer, not Aquaduct

Why are prices gonna go up? In the contrary other sellers are just going to profit because of this loss.Its a loss for whoever was growing crops.Justgottagrow moresomewhere else .

Go lake go!!!!!

Just think of the crud growing in that water, what with the cow manure and chicken poo.

Hope the lake stays and residents get compensated

The farmer need to come together and use the lake for recreational park. Just charge people to go there while the land are under water. It's a win win for both the Indians and the farmers.

Did ya really have to say “we came in… the colonizers” it was some wealthy cotton farmers that left the south and bought up all the land and diverted all the water. It wasn’t most of the farmers there either, mainly the cotton tycoons.

in the immortal words of the great Nelson Munce, nature says "haha "

Will there be bass and crappies in it soon!!????

What if another wet winter hits and this lake don't go away

Imagine how toxic that water is because of farming runoff

Great report. Fair and balanced. Even touches on aquifer depletion. We can expect climate change to make water supplies more unsteady, which is going to be hard especially on orchard crops which take years to establish. Almonds are being ripped out all over the place.

GMA, stop with the banner along the bottom for the entire report. It would be nice to see the entire picture.

I think the farms need to be relocated and allow the lake to grow back to its pre 1850 stays, after all, California does have a drought issue and can use all the water it can! America has massive amounts of agricultural land that can be used to compensate for the loss of this land.

God works in strange ways ... Embrace this water is LIFE ...!

The sierra Nevada needs to be filled with pines to protect the ice from melting to fast

Just like we made a mistake building a city (New Orleans) between a lake and a river 9 feet below sea level, never should have drained the lake. In a great big country we can grow crops in other places. Leave the lake and let it grow (also, as a lake in the central valley, would be a great way to store water in wet years for use in a pinch in dry years) and not to mention recreational opportunities

Don’t feel bad for the farmers. Shouldn’t have stole the land from the natives smh. Crops couldn’t have been that critical if we are still ok.

I’m shocked that anyone would lament the resurrection of a murdered lake.

Short term it will have a bad impact on farming and the economy, but if it stays, which it should, it will have numerous long-term benefits: evaporation will increase rainfall to other parts of the region which will reduce drought, it will at least partially restore aquifers so will reduce land sinking and provide more drinking and irrigation water, and it can be used directly for irrigation of farmland - but use of water will have to be monitored with water permits and public ownership of aquifers and wells probably the best option to keep it sustainable so that it doesn't disappear again

Colonizer?

They didn't deplete the "aqueducts," the depletion was of the aquifer. I sensed she was having a hard time with calling them "colonizers," but that's exactly what they were: Spanish, then American colonizers. It may not be your fault you were born Western European or Western European American, but Western Europeans did some really foul things to provide today's Western Europeans with title to lands that were not their own, and that they did not earn.

Team Lake!!

Apart from the aquifer guffaw, the reporter was surprisingly informative. Most tv reporters are all drama and lipstick, but she had solid back story and treated this with the respect it deserved. A lot of lives were disrupted and it would have been nice if she had spoken to any of the people there, or looked at owenership structure (mega ag corps vs smal and private farms) but apart from that, nice presentation and happy for a very human, bare bone but respectful performance.

Depleted the aquifer not the aqueduct.

Aquifer, good report. Not a new normal?

3:00 in juat say "a reminder, this doesn't even account for all the wasted food we produce every single year that if we just factored in would need no significant price increases.."

Lmao 😂 saying the lake is gonna be there for only 2 years is like yall not knowing it wouldve shown up to begin with.. you dont know. I really hope this lake grows to be massive. If you let the lake grow, you could have a big enough fresh water lake that could sustain a water supply for years and years!

How about when it drys up use it as water storage.

Will the lake recharge aquifers?

So many people crying!! If you live and grow crops in a lake basin expect to get flooded out!!! No sympathy here

She says colonizers like it’s bad.

Lol I like how they are using word play to dance around what really happened

let it be, might also bring back lake corcoran

Wait, what? Your report makes the return of Tulare Lake a bad thing. I thought wetlands were sacred not to be disturbed or interfered with. If water is so precious then why is a state that is in perpetual drought so eager to see it dry up again? I am with the native Americans on this. Preserve Tulare Lake at all costs…!

Everything happens for a reason and this was that reason...

Thanks mother nature karma is coming to cally 😂😂😂

#letthelakelive

You see this everywhere. Mississippi delta, Arizona storm washes, etc. Just ignore the reality,

I wonder how much fertilizer and pesticides are in that water?

Wow

Great reporting! Let Pa'ashi live!

Lake flooded in 1997 as well. Natives deserve their lake back.

Fresh water prawns clams fish

So add soil and plant...you'll fetch a high price for your crops and won't even need to water them

I call BS the prices are Going to go up? What about all of the years that they PAID farmers to not grow crops to keep prices up?? Bring Tulare Lake back!!!

We want the lake, let’s just do vertical farming instead

Can’t wait for the farmers to drain it again.

Excellent 😊

It is great news for the earth's biosphere water evaporation provides critical oxygen replenishment. Most importantly, it will help the ozone layer that acts like a natural shield against UV rays from the Sun.

They can try pumping the lake out, all these farmers are just helping us dry out and lower the lake bed for Lake Tulare to return

How can it be a loss when it's about greed. They know it happens.

A great place to go hunting for a curvature

Fine, I wont eat pistachios anymore then.