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How Many People Will Have To Migrate Out Of California When All The Water Disappears?
Zero Hedge ^
| 04/03/2015
| Tyler Durden
Posted on 04/05/2015 12:00:01 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The drought in California is getting a lot worse. As you read this, snowpack levels in the Sierra Nevada mountains are the lowest that have ever been recorded. That means that there wont be much water for California farmers and California cities once again this year. To make up the difference in recent years, water has been pumped out of the ground like crazy. In fact, California has been losing more than 12 million acre-feet of groundwater a year since 2011, and wells all over the state are going dry. Once the groundwater is all gone, what are people going to do?
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TOPICS: US: California
KEYWORDS: california; water
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To: MinorityRepublican
Don’t come here, we’re closed.
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posted on
04/05/2015 12:02:52 AM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
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To: MinorityRepublican
They still have an Ocean that can be desalinated. But they probably fear
the ocean would run out of Water.
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posted on
04/05/2015 12:03:39 AM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
To: MinorityRepublican
They should all move to Mexico.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
04/05/2015 12:07:17 AM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
To: MaxMax
Never mind the fact that the hydrological cycle still exists—there will always be water in the oceans...and the brine is probably worth something too...
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posted on
04/05/2015 12:07:28 AM PDT
by
__rvx86
(¡SI SE PUEDE! (Cruz 2016!))
To: MaxMax
I was just thinking. (I have no idea if this would have been practical, just musing to myself.)
What would the situation be if all the funds that were squandered on crap projects like Solyndra had been put instead into desalination plants?
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posted on
04/05/2015 12:07:38 AM PDT
by
shibumi
("Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way")
To: MinorityRepublican
It’s getting serious out here. The Governor is devising ration rules that he hopes will be quickly approved and implemented. We shall see what happens and at what pace, other than bloviating, that is. Even Obama, “the Royal American President”, may be effected if he comes to California ready to commandeer the biggest golf course.
He may find most the green has turned brown.
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posted on
04/05/2015 12:09:14 AM PDT
by
lee martell
(The sa)
To: shibumi
They wouldn't even need to desalinate at the waters edge, it can be pumped inland
to preserve the natural beaches and beauty. But the whacky Eco-terrorists don't care,
stubborn.
I wonder how much one plant would cost, and how many homes is would support.
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posted on
04/05/2015 12:12:50 AM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
To: shibumi
My broker, who is in San Diego, told me that desalination plants will be starting up and down the coast. He said once Carlsbad got through the permit process and other initial states (they’re going live this year) that other areas are following Carlsbad’s example. He spoke as if this was fact, not theory.
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posted on
04/05/2015 12:13:01 AM PDT
by
Aria
To: MinorityRepublican
I’m already leaving ASAP. I hope that the other states aren’t stupid enough to allow the freeloading criminals in this state into theirs...
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posted on
04/05/2015 12:13:13 AM PDT
by
Politicalkiddo
(Gringa for Cruz 2016!)
To: MaxMax
Funny thing is that CA doesn’t really have the power grid to support significant numbers of desalination plants.
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posted on
04/05/2015 12:19:01 AM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: MinorityRepublican
This was not a problem before all the illegals started coming...
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posted on
04/05/2015 12:21:09 AM PDT
by
Cowboy Bob
(Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
To: MinorityRepublican
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posted on
04/05/2015 12:23:43 AM PDT
by
marron
To: MinorityRepublican
Once the groundwater is all gone, what are people going to do? The legislature will pass a bill causing any remaining water to be diverted to the Pacific Ocean to decrease the excess salinity caused by global warming.
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posted on
04/05/2015 12:24:24 AM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: shibumi
I think an even bigger high speed rail project is the answer.
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posted on
04/05/2015 12:26:29 AM PDT
by
ltc8k6
To: MinorityRepublican
A big, fat coastal quake should moot the whole problem, as far as I can see. The last thing I want or need is a bunch of mincing pansies and Cali beach burnouts wrecking my county, state, and region with their brand of hippy-dippy Socialism and alley cat moral attributes.
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posted on
04/05/2015 12:28:47 AM PDT
by
Viking2002
(The Avatar is back by popular request.)
To: Aria
The Carlsbad plant opens next year and will be the largest in the Western hemisphere.
Santa Barbara is bringing back their 1991 desalination plant that they mothballed in 1992, when the water situation suddenly improved back then.
There are other plants coming.
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posted on
04/05/2015 12:34:16 AM PDT
by
ansel12
(Palin--Mr President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.)
To: MinorityRepublican
The illegals can go back to where they are legal.
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posted on
04/05/2015 12:35:52 AM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: MinorityRepublican
We’ll just raise taxes so people use less water.
There: I fixed it. :)
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posted on
04/05/2015 12:37:07 AM PDT
by
Tzimisce
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