Posted on 10/05/2014 10:50:33 AM PDT by blam
Tyler Durden
10/05/2014
Newly released images created from NASA satellite data illustrate the staggering effect the California drought has had on groundwater supply in the state. As Mashable's Patrick Kulp explains, the images show the amount of water lost over the past 12 years, with different colors indicating severity over time. “Nobody has any idea how disastrous it’s going to be,” Mike Wade of California Farm Water Coalition told the Associated Press, as RT reports a growing number of communities in central and northern California could end up without water in 60 days due to the Golden state’s prolonged drought. While California is bearing the brunt, experts note "We're seeing it happening all over the world, in most of the major aquifers in the arid and semi-arid parts of the world."
California is currently experiencing the third year of one of the most severe short term droughts ever recorded. Data from U.S. Drought Monitor shows that as of Sept. 30, 82% of the state is facing extreme or exceptional drought conditions.
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What galls me the most about illegals is that they are traitors to Mexico. If they stayed in their own country and fought the corruption, like we did - and still do - in America, they could clean it up and there WOULD be jobs there. Instead they cut and ruin like cowards during the time their country needs them. And then, do they become Americans? Nope. They stay international criminal squatters, parasites living off of American abundance, ready to bolt again the moment they finally kill the golden goose. What can be said about such people, who have no integrity, no honor? They cry "Mexico, Mexico" while betraying it AND their refuge in America.
Selfish garbage. They deserve no country at all.
I have no idea what t he resistance to desalinization is. There should have been dozens of desalinization plants years ago. Drought is foreseeable, nature has CYCLES.
Ski slopes in the Rockies such as Vail use incredible amounts of water which would otherwise go downstream to farming areas in California (etc). It has been said that the US could have water wars over the misuse of this resource.
Another resource to watch is Lake Erie. Pollution and lower water levels could threaten it.
There’s always bottled water , D’oh
cause taxpayer dollars are better spent on choochoo's than desalinization plants...
“I’m sorry, but that is such a ridiculous comment.”
Why?
The average person uses 80-100 gallons of water a day.
Let’s say CA has a million illegals: a very conservative number since that’s how we roll here at FR.
That’s about a 100 million gallons of water a day.
Lefties are all about conserving Mother Gaia’s precious bodily fluids, but only for us here in `flyover country’ frakking for oil.
Consequently, we say they can’t have it both ways.
When the snow at Vail melts in the summer, it goes down the Colorado river to Los Angeles.
“What galls me the most about illegals is that they are traitors to Mexico. If they stayed in their own country and fought the corruption, like we did - and still do - in America, they could clean it up and there WOULD be jobs there. Instead they cut and ruin like cowards during the time their country needs them. And then, do they become Americans? Nope. They stay international criminal squatters, parasites living off of American abundance, ready to bolt again the moment they finally kill the golden goose. What can be said about such people, who have no integrity, no honor? They cry “Mexico, Mexico” while betraying it AND their refuge in America. “
They are hear for economic reasons. Nothing else. If that ceases to be true, they will have no reason to be here, unless they get social benefits.
They understand they cannot change their country’s corruption any more than you can change the corruption of America - regardless of which party you vote for. You might as well attempt to bail the ocean a thimble-full at a time...
Um...
Is that what your ancestors did?
My solution: let your batshit crazy governor, senators, and congresspeople run your state straight into the ground. Throw your border wide open to mexico (as per your governor), and then go hat in hand to mexico for money to fix your failed socialist mexican state.
Close off the borders to Arizona, Nevada, and Oregon, Cut off all water and electric power transmisssion, and just write off the entire state as conquered by mexico.
You could of fought it, but you chose not to. Now live with the consequences, because the rest of the states (with the exception of texas) have had it up to here with your bullshit. Oh, and your buddies in texas are next.
Water has become a very effective tool for the Democrats. In my little city, the Democrats can get approval to build low income housing with no problems. Low income voters tend to vote Democrat. Try to subdivide land for middle class housing, and, all of a sudden, the Democrats are screaming that there “might not be enough water” for those houses. A thousand people jammed into low income housing? No potential water problem. A hundred people in a middle class housing development? That might dry up everyone’s wells. It’s all bulls**t.
Um, yeah, they did. They fought and died in Poland. They suffered a starvation holocaust in Ireland. And when they came from Italy to escape the Mafia's control, or from anywhere else, they went through Ellis Island and became lawful American citizens.
For all its problems, Mexico is NOTHING like those times. Mexico is fully connected to the international community, the web, higher education and massive support programs. And illegals don't just skip here on a whim - they've been here for generations and never bothered to get their citizenship LEGALLY.
Not to mention that Mexico has draconian immigration laws they ENFORCE, but no liberal ever weeps a tear over THAT.
Um... Go back to DU, shill. Because the plain fact is that if all those illegals would vote Republican, you'd be marching in the streets to have them ALL deported TOMORROW.
I guess. But it sounded way off subject to me.
To your post, the average California household uses more than 360 gallons of water per day. Los Angeles averages 150 gallons per resident per day. The LA number is best to use since it is in a dry region. The north skews the numbers.
The conventional estimate is that 80 percent of the water used in California flows into the state’s multi-billion-dollar agricultural sector.
The 20 percent left for urban use is split between homes, businesses, and government.
About 6 percent of the state’s water is consumed by industries, commercial operations, and governments. About 14 percent is poured into bathtubs, toilets, and washing machines or sprayed over residential lawns.
In other words, the use by illegal residents is insignificant as a percentage of total consumption.
>> What comes after “red”?
The Director of Scary Doomsday Graphics clicks on the “Angry Red WITH Oozing Pus” button in his software, and makes it so.
Certain people will go back to their roots, no not mexico or honduras or whatever place of origin. They will just start using the streets and alley’s for toilets.
Wrong comparison. It is VERY significant as a percentage of RESIDENTIAL consumption. And it is used by liberals to argue against middle-class residential building.
That forces already middle-class housing prices even higher through enforced scarcity, and helps drive the middle-class out of the state, while simultaneously allowing ever more low-income housing developments for illegals.
What's being enacted is that California is going to be for the rich and the low-income workers. Period. Small farms and ranches and properties will fold from drought and be bought by mega- developers and mega-farms to work, hire and house the low-income workers. That's the liberal "dream," and the bonus is getting millions of new, dependant Rat voters and raising food prices across the country to force ever more people into government subsistence programs - along with ever-more government control.
Arid and semi-arid parts of the world were not meant to support large populations on aquifers that have no recharge.
Silly wabbits.
They don't mean it. They are just using it.
On new residential housing, the developer should be required as part of the entitlement process to (1) show where the water will come from to serve the new homes and (2) be required to put in gray water systems for landscape irrigation.
Your ancestors did not stick around and "fight the corruption", as you put it. They came here.
Ellis Island represents a period of unrestricted immigration. As long as you were white and not sick you got in. If Ellis Island were still open today I'm sure it would be swamped with Mexicans.
BTW most Italian immigrants to America came fleeing the economic results of their government's taxes. The mafia had nothing to do with it. Try to be serious.
California never needed a “high speed” rail line and still does not need one.
It has needed and still needs a high speed race building desalinization plants up and down its Pacific ocean coastline.
With that coastline it has no water shortage. It only has a vast and massive shortage of vision that has kept it from not tapping the Pacific ocean to make up for any and all droughts and water deficits.
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