Posted on 03/16/2015 5:01:21 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Exactly. These stories always promote the fantasy that California is number 1 in all grown things and its completely false.
The upper midwest is ideal for certain things like the plains are ideal for growing grains. Here in Michigan we’re one of the top wine producers, top tart cherry producers, top 2 or 3 apple and potato producers. Asparagus grows wild here and we farm it between the rows in apple orchards.
Now I wouldn't expect Gov Moonbeam to do much except throw his hands in the air, declare the sky (but no rain) is falling, and demand higher taxes.
Here goes the price of fresh produce.
More like $100B trains...and truthfully, it's a government project...it's not going to even be that cheap.
California total area is 4% water. Michigan is 41.5% water and Florida is 18.45% water.
I believe this is fresh water.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_area
I suspect what they will try to do is steal water from other states. Especially from Washington state. Just watch, they will want a pipeline from the Columbia River to California. If they try to push the federal government to force Washington to give them water, I hope the environmentalists fight back.
NASA, "Earth Science Program at UC-Irvine", and CBS news aren't exactly what I'd call unbiased toward a certain agenda...
Now granted California does have an issue pertaining to water. Agriculture IS important there, and California IS where (maybe?) most of America's fresh produce comes from because of the fertile, productive San Fernando valley.
Just flat-assed coming out and saying that "the world doesn't have enough fresh water" is just over the top... like someone's trying to sell fear.
Maybe, MAYBE, California doesn't have enough fresh water. Plenty of water here in my part of the world. Yes there is a certain neighboring state trying to get their mitts on some of it.
Maybe California could go buy some water somewhere else, like Oregon or Washington. There are these things called "pipelines", or "aquaducts". Also maybe they could decrease the number of people who are illegally consuming water there, that is to say being there illegally in the first place and consuming water at the same time.
Also it might help to ax some questions about the differing methods used for agricultural irrigation there, with some Israeli help...
Why provoke hysteria, "the world doesn't have enough fresh water left..."
That ain't gonna sell.
Because Brown & C0. can’t get any kick backs with desalination plants but they can with a high speed rail system.
Personally, I’d rather see all of you other 49 states get all of your emigres back...especially the looney tune liberals who came here and promptly ruined CA.
I’ll keep most of the Mexicans...they’re of a better temperment and personality than some FReepers...
Stealing water from Washington may help in the short run, but it is susceptible to climate variations and might seriously limit long term growth in Washington.
For the same cost as a bullet train to nowhere, $120 billion, California could build enough desaltification plants to meet all the states public water needs.
Don’t fight mother nature.
I am not disputing what you write. In fact, I was in Aruba last year and all of their water comes from desalination.
I think the bigger issue is transport and volume. I would cost a fortune to move that water out to the place where they need it.
$100 billion plus for a train to nowhere.
($1 billion to Diane Feinsteins husband company CBRE)
Not a nickel to build reservoirs. Flushing billions of gallons of fresh water into the ocean because of a minnow. No wonder there is no water
If they try to steal our water, there will be a huge fight . People here do not like Californians, although a lot of them came here with their liberal policies.No way should they take our water. California does not even conserve water.They can go dry for all I care.
What about all the water that used to irrigate the San Joaquin Valley farms now running freely into the ocean? The minnows are safe, the farms are desert, the vast amounts of produce grown on the farms an historical footnote to Progressivism.
At my home in VT, I have plenty of fresh water. When the hose to my well burst earlier this winter, I had a garage and basement full of the wonderful fresh water. I would have sent it to Cali if I had known.
Instead, I pumped it into the back yard to eventually leach down to the water table for re-use.
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