Posted on 02/17/2009 7:12:54 PM PST by Steelfish
They’ve been claiming “drought” for the past 3 decades. There’s always a drought. Always.
Used to have a friend that lived on Coldwater Canon Rd. About half way up. He had a catch box at his curb with a small concrete lid set flush to the top. I had to know what was down there and pried the lid up with a small bar.
Spring water. Lots of it. At least a hundred gallons a minute. There’s springs all over those hills and they pipe them to the ocean. Can’t have people getting free water.
Good call. Everything old is new again.
I call BS. Dams could solve many if not most all
of California’s issues.
Where do these wackos get their money?
If we called it the ‘Future estuary preservation and
creation act’ the lib-nuts would love it.
RE post 15, makes too much sense.
As someone who lives in the area.......yea, right flooding and rain for nearly two weeks, record snow falls in the local mountain ranges. Who are they trying to kid?
I think they won’t call it until the Mead and Powell are both full again. BTW, how has Diamond Lake fared from the rain, they haven’t been sending water from her because they want to keep it free of Quagga and I understand it was getting pretty low.
Many dams needed in that state were never built(envirocrap)
Not much storage,also,if/when the Aquaduct gets shutdown,,,
“AND” the feed from the Colorado River gets shutdown
At The Same Time?!,,,
That will put 3/4 of the state DRY!!!
No Water At All!!!
Water rationing will be the least of Los Angeles’ problems this year.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5077504
California just keeps packing people into the state with not a care about resources (water and electricity). They expect other people in other states to give away their resources. Tough luck. Figure out another way. There's a big ocean and plenty of room for nuclear reactors to supply electricity and run desalinization plants. The construction might even perk up the economy.
It won't be long before the bottom feeders living on government welfare checks start hitting the streets...and markets...and anywhere else they can steal what they can't buy without free money from the taxpayers.
whoa, lol, I should be impressed.
Can see the ad campaign now: “Yellow can Mellow if (it’s Jerry) Brown, Flush it Down.”
I have been promoting undersea desal plants for a long time. I found something else recently that is a personal unit that converts the humidity in the air to water. While it would be less effective in So Cal, it should work on a larger scale in theory.
http://www.airwaterinternational.com/
Nuclear power will generally beat any other source hands down. And now, they are making very stable small reactors that are about the size of a shipping container. This might be a practical intermediate term solution. But in the short term, parking an aircraft carrier offshore can produce a heck of a lot of energy.
I gather in past there has been some concern about permanent desalinization plants, because they can change ocean salinity, which messes up sea life. The solution might be a more complex pipeline, that returns brine to the downstream area near the inlet.
The biggest problem is always “biologicals” that tend to clog the pipes.
Obama!
He has an ingenious plan...
They are going to dilute the water to make it go further...
(/chemist humor)
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