California Is Turning Back Into A Desert And There Are No Contingency Plans

Mens' News Daily ^ | 3/15/2015 | Michael Snyder

[cripplecreek]

California needs desalination plants. Moving water out of one area for use elsewhere is never a good idea.

We’re pretty protective of our water in the great lakes region as well.

[olepap]

No prob to pump water through a pipeline, like oil.

[kaila]

I just wrote a letter to the editor of the Seattle Times requesting they do a story on California's water shortage and its potential impacts on Washington state.I’m very suspicious that the reason why they are not doing anything about their drought is that their long-term plan is to steal from other states,and for all I know Obama is in discussion with them about it. All of a sudden it'll be presented to the states with water as a fait accompli-that California gets to take from them. I am just very suspicious why a state with only a year of water is not doing anything about it.If Washington state only had a year of water people would be scrambling for a solution. I think states with water need to be educated about the potential impact on them.

[cripplecreek]

I think states with water need to be educated about the potential impact on them.

Agreed. Also the fact that water rights and federal overreach are not just western issues.

[cripplecreek]

No prob to pump water through a pipeline, like oil.

It is a problem when we say no.

[lp boonie]

BFL

[going hot]

It sounds like a new version of the 1930’s dust-bowl, but in California.

Oklahoma better get ready for some net increase in population.

Who is gonna play Fonda's role?

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I can live on beef and potatoes! Who needs California!

[Vince Ferrer]

What they need to do is build a moderately faster railroad. This will take all their money, so it had better fix the water problem quickly.

[Carriage Hill]

I’ll miss the strawberries.

[cripplecreek]

For the most part I like the traditional northern European diet that the Midwest ideally supports. The Germans, Dutch, Irish and Welsh brought some good stuff with them when they arrived in Michigan.

[cripplecreek]

We grow strawberries in Michigan. The first paid job I ever did was picking strawberries in Michigan.

We have wild strawberries here as well.

[__rvx86]

Furthermore, the brine byproduct can be refined into a whole host of things; primarily table salt, and a few other chemical powders, depending on the composition of said brine (Reagent-grade salts for research? KCl/CaCl₂, &c.).

[Carriage Hill]

We grow them here in PA, too, but just not as BIG as those CA berries. Actually, the smaller, riper ones are much sweeter.

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

Regulations bring prosperity

[cripplecreek]

I was just thinking the same thing. There are lots of useful minerals in seawater.

[palmer]

It sounds like a new version of the 1930's dust-bowl, but in California

It is the same as the California drought from 1928-1937 in parts of California (or 1929-1934 for the entire state).

[moehoward]

"Well.. the uber-liberal coastal region, anyway."

A great place to lay the border is at the Grapevine.

[cripplecreek]

We’re overrun with raspberries in Michigan. You can hardly get rid of them and they’re everywhere.

I live along the River Raisin which was named by French explorers who were horrified by the tangle of wild grape vines they had to struggle through mile after mile.

[windcliff]

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