Posted on 04/19/2015 8:10:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
corrected it
That will be Órale, gabacho.
‘Conditions Are Now Like A Third-World Country’
The roads are in better shape in third world countries....
God will not be mocked.
With the Sierra snowpack at 4% of normal as of May 20, Californians will desperately need what little water remains behind its dams this summer. Authorities have warned some towns like Folsom—home of Folsom Lake—to expect daily rationing of 50 gallons per person, a 60% cut from average household usage.
Yet last month the Bureau of Reclamation drained Folsom and other reservoirs on the American and Stanislaus rivers of more than 70,000 acre feet of water—enough to meet the annual needs of a city of half a million people—for the comfort and convenience of fish.
Government officials who are entrusted with the careful management of our water squandered it in less than three weeks to nudge baby salmon toward the Pacific Ocean (to which they swim anyway) and to keep the river at just the right temperature for the fish by flushing the colder water stored in the reservoirs.
These water releases are so enormous they are called “pulse flows.” They generate such swift currents that local officials issue safety advisories to exercise extreme caution when on or near the rivers. While some of the water can be recaptured downstream, most is lost to the ocean.
While homeowners parch their gardens and clog their showerheads with flow restrictors to save a few extra gallons of water, their government thought nothing of wasting 23 billion gallons to lower river water temperatures by a few degrees.
Tom McClintock May 23, 2014
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304547704579565622649474370
All California needs to do is kick out illegal aliens and they’ll free up a third or more of their water, plus eliminate a whole bunch of trash.
Unfortunately, California is the harbinger of what's to come throughout the United States.
LOx?? What for, LOx?
Add some charcoal, and you could have some serious sudden Local Warming!
LOx?
Liquid Oxygen?
Smoked Salmon?
I want some of both.
When I come down the hill into the little valley on the Snake River here in Idaho,on my way home from work, I smile at all the massive sprinklers soaking the farmers fields and the lawns of custom homes. The rivers are always flowing and we hit good water for our well at 80 ft. but went to 170 ft. Our garden is lush and bountiful and the surrounding area has enough game that I curse the quail that eat my strawberries every year!
We left Calif. 10 years ago and are glad we did. I have an extra 3 acre building lot with access to a boat dock and park on the river if any Freeper wishes to escape to paradise.
” . . . Orange County has no water shortage whatsoever, . . . “
It is interesting the exclusive desert golf courses in Palm Springs and Palm Desert where the president plays when going on his frequent fundraising and speechmaking trips to California seem to be well watered. Of course those courses are for the 1%, why would anyone in the press care to comment about the use of scarce water to create grass in the desert to create a playground for the wealthy? Or possibly the great redistributionist’s hypocrisy in playing the rich man’s sport on desert courses?
Not only will the press not comment, I don’t hear anything from the GOP either.
follow the money——
Bet Dianne Finklestein’s hubby is in there with his hand deep into that till.
Sounds good
Ha!
Where is Orange County getting water to sell that others don’t have?
Apparently it is our excess coming in, for now at least we have some productive wells going and O.C. at least is pumping purified water back into the aquifers. This is what I have been told anyway. Take it with a grain of salt, like many things that end up on FR : )
My wife and I were talking tonight and can’t understand why people with the means to leave continue to live in those little southern towns that have died a slow death. I know two men who retired from the military and moved back to our hometown, a place that I won’t even visit. It’s depressing.
I know exactly what you are talking about. Ensley. Midfield. Bessemer....
OTOH a lot of small Southern towns are great places to live. Maybe the interstate passed them by. Or a 4 lane state hwy. Lands cheap, houses cheap, you can find your own little piece of paradise for not much money. Not good if you have kids though, as they’ll have to go to Co. schools that could be miles away.
Dear California
Look to your West.
Sincerely
Every other state.
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