California governor: Drought over, conservation must go on

Associated Press ^ | Apr. 7, 2017 6:47 PM ET | Scott Smith

[Olog-hai]

California Gov. Jerry Brown declared an end to the state’s drought emergency on Friday after powerful storms quenched the state following four extraordinarily dry years that drained reservoirs and wells, devastated forests and farmland and forced millions of people to slash their water use.

The turnaround has been stark. After years of brown fields and cracked earth, monster storms blanketed California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains this winter with deep snow that flows into the network of rivers and streams that supply much of the state’s water.

Front lawns revived to bright green in neighborhoods throughout the state and rivers that had become dry beds of sand and gravel are now charged with water swelling up in their banks.

Still, lifting the order is a largely symbolic measure that doesn’t remove most of the restrictions. Officials insisted they’re holding onto some conservation rules for the 40 million residents of the nation’s most populous state. …

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Yesterday afternoon it was raining so hard when I was driving from SF back down to Cupertino that I could barely see, and cars were hitting axle-deep pockets of water on the 280.

But Jerry still wants to act like there's a drought on. Of course - governmental controls are governmental power, and no government just gives up power voluntarily.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Citizens will be paying higher taxes to stop flooding.

Trust me.

[VideoPaul]

This is like the old saying, the only thing that lasts forever is a temporary government agency. There is no outer limit to the crushing and unnecessary restrictions they will put people under.

The ONE place I’m not looking for work is California.

[acapesket]

he is such a MO-RON.
We were walking hip high to MB Market in 77-78.
California is mostly desert, when it does rain it POURS.

[Sivad]

“California is mostly desert”......

No, not really.

[Bob434]

You folks need to get him out of office- He is obviously too incompetent to lead your state

[AnotherUnixGeek]

He is obviously too incompetent to lead your state

Competence stopped being a qualification for public office in California decades ago. Degree of left-wing lunacy is the primary criterion for California politicians these days, and as an old-timer, Brown is actually pretty tame by current California standards.

[LibWhacker]

SOBs!!! Once they get you by the throat, they never let you go. Unless you chop their filthy, clammy hands off.

[vette6387]

““California is mostly desert”......

No, not really.”

Actually when you look at the Central and Imperial Valleys, it is! You couldn’t grow a weed there without irrigation. Even in the Salinas Valley, where some of the best vegetables in the country are grown, nothing would grow there of any consequence without substantial irrigation. I have a second home in the area so I see it first hand.

[taxcontrol]

Must be saving up for the fire season that is coming.

[mountn man]

Maybe, instead of wasting BILLIONS of $$$ on a useless high speed train, Californicate could use that money to interconnect all western reservoirs. So that full reservoirs can be pumped to less full reservoirs, thereby negating the need to dump water from overfull reservoirs.

For example, The world's longest crude oil pipeline is the Interprovincial Pipe Line Inc. installation, which spans the North American continent from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada through Chicago to Montreal: a distance of 3787.2km 2353 miles. Along the length of the pipe, 82 pumping stations maintain a flow of more than 254,000 m3 1.6 million barrels a day.

Maybe Californicate could build desalinization plants like Israel has done.

[Sivad]

Back somewhere in my agricultural education I learned that
it takes irrigation to grow what we WANT to grow but much
of California supports a diverse native plant population
although the amount of water availability varies in
different zones.

[SpaceBar]

California is at war with Eastasia.

[SirLurkedalot]

I escaped CA a little over 6 yrs ago.

I’m never going back.

[Gaffer]

I’ve long thought that government restrictions, like drought condition control (precautionary or reactive) are like taxes. Once imposed they are [almost] never rescinded.

[The Westerner]

Like the paradise Jews created in their little parcel on the sea. Whatever man turns to green, whether dollars or gardens, the destroyers, pickpockets all, will show up to claim them via every evil method invented. But it takes a special kind of destroyer to not want the dollars or green but to make sure no man will ever have them again, i.e., case in point not fixing Oroville spillway. Brown and the American 60’s radical leftists sure remind me of the radical Muslims. Both hate the beauty man has created on earth, both hate life itself and wish everyone to hate life as they do. Thank God I won't have to see the destruction of music, art, literature, skyscrapers, gardens, the happiness in my childrens’ eyes.

[kingu]

Moonbeam is on his final term as governor, so in 2018 we’ll have a much more energetic and ‘forward thinking’ liberal rather than someone who is fixated on his little choo choo and raising taxes whenever he can find the excuse.

[GladesGuru]

Gov. Moonbeam is right! Fill all the impounded waters right up to the top of the dam.

It worked so well at the Oroville Dam.

Or not . . . .

[abbastanza]

No, no, no! Californians love their “Moon Beam”. Well, most of them. The ones that pay Federal and State income tax, mot so much. But what the heck, it’s the price you pay to live in the land of fruits and nuts. I say “Moon Beam” forever.