Posted on 06/19/2015 7:57:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Same with using ancient TX Cypress: in the 1500s, there was a *hundred* year drought. That was horrible to have in the back of one’s mind during this 5yr drought.
Last winter my company sold over 600 trucks of rock salt throughout the north eastern US. They mine it out of the ground in NY, PQ, OH, NM, UT. It is used also for water treatment both municipally and residentially for water softening(solar salt) and killing bacteria. So, there is money in salt.
First off, blame the feds for Endangered Species legislation that requires efforts to save the smelt. Second, it looks like the smelt will be extinct within a couple of years anyway. The latest count found exactly one. Third, pumping more water out of the river has the effect of allowing sea water to push inland. The brackish water is already further inland than ever before, and there’s salt buildup in the eastern delta because there’s almost nothing to flush it out to sea.
Wood, stop it. Common sense is not allowed today. We need a $50 billion high speed line doncha know
It takes a gallon of water to grow one almond. And we export most of the crop.
I’m not sure about the almond export. I got this deal going with some Cajuns in the Woodlands (north of Houston) every year I go and clear out their primary AC drain line and the old folks make me a big gumbo to take home and his wife always cooks Praleens (I think that’s how it’s spelled) but it has almonds or pecans or something but is like a sweet candy.
Yes, but as I said before, all of that water flowing out through the Golden Gate keeps the Pacific Ocean from poisoning the most productive ag land in the world. Ever wonder why we don’t eat veggies grown in Carthage. Saltwater would do billions of dollars of danger to California’s economy.
“And we export most of the crop”
We must need the almonds to help our trade imbalance.
There are probably a bunch of California government folks that own those almond groves, or get big contributions from almond farmers.
How does 1800 gallons for 1 LB of beef sound?
I still like my solution.
There was a thread a couple days ago about frackers about to go wild in CA. I love fracking, but it shows how much Sacramento cares for their actual people, except that they show up to vote rat.
We never had rain, we did have previous water rights from other states that Brown in the 70s gave back leaving us out of future water in a drought.
California on Cusp of Fracking Boom Bigger than North Dakota
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3301175/posts
California may be on the cusp of an oil fracking boom along its 1,750-square-mile Monterrey Shale Formation, which is potentially the richest shale oil reserve in the United States.
Earthquakes have disturbed the layers of shale rock that run under most of the western state, making fracking more challenging than in a region like North Dakota. But when the next cyclical El Niño brings the huge amounts of water necessary for fracking, California could experience an economic boom similar to North Dakota’s oil rush.
Property in California is absurdly overvalued, and the correction is going to be amazing.
The thought of all those millions of brainwashed Democrats and off the wall radical leftists carrying the mental disease of liberalism to other states in a Dem diaspora is chilling indeed.
I was under the impression that Texas and probably Arkansas were under a severe draught before this latest deluge. What good would the pipelines have done then?
Also, in places like the Pacific Northwest (where I live), even residents along the rivers can't generally withdraw water without permitting -- very difficult to get these days. Fat chance of a pipeline to California. Although maybe we could send our sewage there.
Yeah, I’m sure God considers you His chosen people /sarc.
California state was the major producer of crude oil for many years before fracking was even devised. At the start of WWI, California oil was 40% of domestic supply. The oil boom there began in the late 1800’s. Early photographs of Los Angeles show hundreds of oil rigs. Even today, California is the third largest producer of oil and gas among the srates.
Quite obviously, a single marijuana plant does not uptake six gallons of water a day. It is not a giant Redwood or something. Possibly they are dividing the total amount of water applied by the number of plants. It doesn't all end up in the plants.
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