Posted on 01/19/2023 12:39:41 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The rain that fell on California in recent weeks could have supplied the state’s water needs for 10 years — if it had been captured and stored. Unfortunately, most of the water is being left to drain to the Pacific Ocean.
California received some 32 trillion gallons of water in three weeks of “atmospheric river” storms across the state, according to Fox News. In 2014, the state used 42 million acre feet, or about 1.4 trillion gallons, annually, according to the Desert Sun, citing the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). (A more recent figure from USGS suggests the state withdraws up to 28,800 gallons per day, or about 1 trillion per year, from the environment.)
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“California is too worried about who used what bathroom and illegals coming over the border for free BEEP. California is full of stupid.”
But more importantly, they are worried about trucks that run on combustion engines picking up goods at the docks, leaving ships berthed in the harbor for weeks on end.
Every farmer says at some point during the growing season, “If only ...”
Maybe they were afraid of impacting the Delta Smelt, or whatever insignificant animal is the endangered-of-the-week at the moment?
We’ll get more water in the spring when the snows melt. Whether we capture and store it is an entirely different question. It isn’t something I’ve studied in depth but I have no doubt that water resource management is screwy. They are busy tearing down dams and releasing water to save fish and I don’t think we have any new aqueducts or expansion projects for the existing reservoirs.
......putting Liberals in charge of a whole state is like putting a child in the pilot seat of a deceased pilot of an airbus loaded with 500 people midway across the Atlantic...................
the state withdraws up to 28,800 gallons per day, or about 1 trillion per year, from the environment
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Is that “woke” math??
28,800 X 365 = 10,512,000
10 million
A trillion
My, aren’t you nit-picky today!
Even if the reservoirs are filled and overflowing like in 2019, within 2 years they will be drained just like Newscum did in 2020-2021. There is no way in hell they will give up the power to Control that the Permanent Emergency Drought Orders give them.
The manufactured crisis must be perpetuated.
But how is California supposed to store all of this water? You can’t possibly mean using dams especially constructed for this and other purposes? What about the Indians, the salmon and the delta smelt? C’mon man! Dams are bad. The electricity they generate is bad and flood control they provide is bad as well since ‘communities of color’ are more affected by floods than ‘communities of non-color’.
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It’s beyond amateurish for Breitbart to post this kind of crap without getting a single quote from a real hydrologist who knows how water resource management works.
If they build a 500’ tall dam at the Carquinez Strait then they can turn the entire central valley into a reservoir for Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Bonus: It’ll flood out Sacramento!
Politicians are all about bribes and kickbacks. They do not care about the drought or building dams or desalination plants. If they can get a bribe for any reason then that’s all that matters to them.
“if it had been captured and stored. “
A stupid article for stupid people.
If all the water is captured and stored, all the rivers will be dust.
And NOBODY wants that, left...right...or stupid green.
Well, except for COMMERCIAL, CORPORATE FARMS AND THE LACKYS IN THEIR EMPLOY...LIKE JOEL B. POLLAK .
See my #16
Thank you. It is absolutely true that the green leaders don’t care a whit about water storage. But the 32 T gallons and ten years’ use is just plain silly. There is no way to store the water that falls on what I’ll call for lack of a better term the narrow coastal plain. Likewise the lands around SF Bay. The Central Valley,
20,000 square miles, is essentially flat and much quite low: Sacramento is 30 feet above sea level; Stockton 13. Much of the desert is very flat. How do you store water on what is essentially a table top?
The central point could have been made without resorting to silly hyperbole.
Probably a good bit of that storage would also have worked its way into the ground aquifers.
It's like telling people they should put a 1,000-gallon gasoline storage tank in their yards so they can pay a discounted price for 1-2 years worth of gasoline at a time.
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