Posted on 07/24/2022 4:53:05 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
The crisis has sparked widespread upheaval, with frustrated residents blocking major highways in protest and people in other parts of the state setting fire to pipes that were supposed to divert emergency flows to the city.
Many are angry at government officials and also the region’s mega-factories, which have largely continued work as usual thanks to federal concessions that allow them to suck water from the strained aquifer via private wells.
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Oh, they mean Chinese and U.S. mega-factories.
I don’t see why the proposal to tap the Mississippi at Davenport and pipe the excess to the Colorado to refill the reservoirs isn’t taken more seriously. I know the environmentalists don’t like it because the upheaval done to natural bio systems. Of course, the environmentalists don’t consider the plight of 40+ million Americans quickly running out of water.
How much of the Colorado is used by those 40 million people for day to day use (drinking, toilets, showers, etc) and how much is to grow rice and almonds in deserts?
Great Reset?
World War Z.
Can you imagine the cost of such a pipeline? Guberment project? Shouldn’t take over72 yrs of study for a few billion dollars.
Desalination plants are the only answer. But the wackos say this would make the ocean too salty for the fish.
Depopulation is part of the Bill Gates Soros Bilderberg agenda. They only want enough people on the earth so that they can have servants.
The Leftists would rather see 140 million suffer from thirst than for some mutant minnow die in its backwater mudbog.
Because it's not a viable idea.
Any lowering of the Mississippi removes the viability for shipping. The Mighty Miss already has trouble maintaining proper water level for the barges that travel it.
A much better idea would be to build de-salinization plants off the CA coast.
Gas/water/electricity/food for the corporations but not for the peasants.
Coming to America.
I thot it was mighty nice of the Mexicans to do all our chrome plating for the fronts of Ford trucks. And then they started tanning most of our leather. Never imagined it would take much water to do all that-—snigle.
LOL!
/sarcasm
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PS: I just checked, and there is a fishing lure named: The Mutant Minnow.
No lie.
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I think I may need to find another hobby to replace
posting gibberish on FR - really.
BFL
“Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States.”
Porfirio Diaz
Desalination.
They wouldn’t be running out of water if the government wasn’t spending years of dumping fresh water into the Pacific ocean.
New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado and Nevada haven’t dumped any of their water into the ocean. All those states are overly dependent upon the Colorado. There aren’t any real alternatives in that area.
Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Nevada don’t have access to the pacific. My understanding of the proposal was to siphon off the winter and spring excess just below Cairo. It might take a few years to fill Mead and Powell on only spring excess but once the reservoirs are filled, problem solved. No effect on barge traffic. What’s you idea for the tens of millions of landlocked folks so dependent upon the Colorado? Piping desalinated pacific water to Flagstaff doesn’t make any better sense.
“to grow rice and almonds in deserts?”
Um, where do you see that happening?
I have only seen that in No. Cal. central valley, which is not a desert area.
Massive desalination plants. Just ask the U.S. Navy - they have them on every ship. I suppose most cruise ships do as well.
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