Why not desalination? There’s an ocean out there.
Because the liberals who run Cali would much rather have the issue than a solution. Hold the issue in front of voters' noses every election and they'll bite at it, just as a speckled trout goes after a salmon egg on a hook. Desalination would rehydrate the thirsty landscape out there, and provide the folks with all the drinking water they could ever need (wouldn't it also assuage all those climate nutjobs' concerns about the "rising ocean," too?). It has worked for decades for the Israelis. But instead, Cali's state government wants $17 billion trains.
That would take a lot of CHEAP energy. No NUCLEAR power plants, No cheap energy.
Why not stop dumping water in the ocean for the smelt?
because common sense hasn’t prevailed in our country for over 30 years—maybe longer.
I came here to say this. :)
They’ve got an OCEAN of water. They just need to take the salt out. This is how they do it in the oil-rich countries in the middle east.
Build two huge plants and get plenty of water.
I guess they are!
http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_25859513/nations-largest-ocean-desalination-plant-goes-up-near
Sounds like "Peak Oil". Technological innovation and market incentives will solve any problems with fresh water "shortages".
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.
Because Brown & C0. can’t get any kick backs with desalination plants but they can with a high speed rail system.
Greatly increased desalinization of ocean water would seem to be the obvious solution, but the environmentalists would probably claim that increasing the salt content of the ocean would harm seaweed, fish, whales, and dolphins, and the EPA would need 10 years for environmental impact studies.