I don’t support iCarly for president, but I gotta applaud her aggressiveness. She is obviously aiming for a position in the upcoming Republican administration.
She is absolutely correct on this one. The environmental lobby and the politicians it has bought in California has done more to harm the California economy and agriculture industry than any combination of natural disasters ever could.
-PJ
She’s right about this but she’s not my candidate. Either Cruz or Walker.
Start with livestock production which is incredibly damaging to animals AND the environment not to mention is half the water used in the country.
This is a terrific article which lays it all out.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/californias-green-drought-1428271308
No major water infrastructure has been completed in California since the 1960s due to environmental obsessions.
Construction of water retention infrastructure and desalination plants are confronted by years of insane environmental lawfare.
Environmental rules forbid pumping excess water from the north Californian catchment to reservoirs in the south.
And the Democrats insist on pouring fresh water into the sea.
bfl
Certainly more evidence of “man-made California drought than for “man-made” global warming. Desalination effort blocked (cement plant conversion), no dam to keep the river from FLOWING FREELY past the thirsty people (to protect a non-indigenous fish). Frankly, they worked hard to deserve their draught.
Any time you start moving a resource from where it is readily available to where it isn't you are setting yourself up for catastrophic failure.
The enviro-whackos are also Population Control zealots, which seems to be the driving force along side Eugenics.
Sorry, this is nonsense.
The drought is a fact of nature. Runoff is a small percentage of “normal.” Under such conditions, it simply doesn’t matter all that much how many dams you have or whether you do or do not direct water to keeping stream flows going for environmental reasons.
All such concerns can do at this point in time is to nibble around the edges of the problem.
I suppose an engineer could sit down and figure out what the state’s water problems would be today if all possible storage had been built over the last 50 years. They would doubtless be less severe, but the problem would still exist.
The problem is essentially two-fold:
1. Moving vast numbers of people into a region that cannot support them based on variable runoff.
2. Using vast amounts of water to grow water-intensive crops in desert or semi-desert regions. Again with the source of water being areas with highly variable runoff.
You simply can’t collect or store water that doesn’t run off.
BTW, I suggest it’s a conservative principle to not initiate settlement or agricultural patterns that are not sustainable in the long run. It’s the “progressive” mindset that believes we can or should ignore the constraints of the real world.
In every Communist dictatorship they force the people to leave their land and move to the city where it is easy to control them. Then they have a famine because no one is working the land. Most recently Venezuela for example. Repeat, repeat, repeat.
The drought in Cali started in 1963 when the Aqueduct was started. Draining the farmlands of the central valley so Los Angelinos could have pools was foolish.
I think the drought is God’s way of breaking up a toxic gathering of people, and the bad news for us is they will have to go somewhere. Nobody climbed up those mountains and stole the snowpack.
Is Kalifornia rationing toilet paper yet?