Posted on 04/02/2015 7:35:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Less now than before. When the Co River was apportioned, the upper states did not need all of their share, so CA was allowed to use that until the upper states did need it, which was around 2006/2007.
That was a major event at the time and there were some serious conflicts between growers in the Imperial Irrigation District and the San Diego golf courses.
No doubt losing that water contributes to CA's problem today.
This includes a changing definition of "highest beneficial use".
No doubt that, previously, farming or watering stock was highest, but today, recreational water probably generates a bigger economic engine. Tourists wanting to golf, fish for trout or salmon, and down river boaters are willing to pay top dollar.
Another good book is The Great Plains written by the Texas historian Walter Prescott Webb, and published in 1932. Its still in print today because many colleges use it as a text book.
Its not specifically about CA but the entire west, west of the 98th meridian. Its about the natural history and gives good explanations of water rights laws and range law.
What make CA so complicated is that there are 3 water rights doctrines in play: Prior Appropriation, Riparian, and Reserved.
Not with so many people, so much debt, so much corruption....there are answers to alleviate the drought( such as desalination) but the arrogant liberal enviromentalists won’t embrace those solutions...
A hallmark of spiritual judgment has been first the beffudling of the wisdom of the leaders. The book of 1st Chronicles speaks of God wanting to punish...the NATION or the people of Israel for their sins...so he allowed King David to be tempted by pride to order a census of a type that was forbidden under Jewish Law...even his main general tried to dissuade him from it. Thus when David did so a plague was brought on the people...but not on David. David as a leader had to repent for himself and intercede for the people before God’s hand was stayed.(Remember when Georgia had a drought some 10 years ago...the Dem Governor decided to publically pray for rain...there was a thunderstorm that night and after wards since Georgia’s water situation has been much better. Governor Moonbat of California perhaps had better try it like his Dem counterpart did in Ga...take a little humility...and do it. God just might take pity and help California in its situation and perhaps Moonbat will learn a thing or two.).
Another instance of such blindness was the story of a later king who increased the burdens on the people much greater than his evil Father had done(refusing to listen to the wise older men, but instead listened to his contemporary ‘swishy’ friends) thus causing a civil war and the split from Northern Israel and 10 of its tribes from Judah and Levi(who were priests of the temple and had no land inheritance).
Look at the performance of Secretary of State Kerry and you can readily see our nation has been given over to buffoons! (and I mean GIVEN OVER) Prep your self...the seas are going to be stormy!
I suppose it would be hateful to mention Sodom and Gomorrah.
Far be it from me to be hateful so I won’t bring it up! : )
Look I just get sick and tired of the hammering of California, as if there aren’t liberals pulling the same crap or worse in other if not all states. Instead of people condemning other states they should look to dealing with the issues in their own, maybe then we will make some headway.
“Marc Reisner’s Cadillac Desert”
A fine book. Read it about 20 years ago.
That was the book that pointed out that everything west of the 100w parallel in the US is a desert, excepting coastal northern California, Oregon and Washington.
Time to desalinate or move.
ping
I always said that only Jack Nicholson could carry a movie with a bandage on his nose half the time.
Illegals use less than 1% of the water in California. Residential, non-landscape use is about 8% of total statewide use. By contrast, almonds and alfalfa, largely exported, are responsible for 25% of the water use in California each year. Blame illegals for a lot of problems, but the water shortage isn't one of them.
I once took a college course in California History, and we spent a fair amount of time on water rights. Come time for the final, I studied that stuff hard and had it down cold.
And it wasn't on the final.
Still a little annoyed, years later.
Here is some more math. Average water use per person per day in California is 180 gallons (per stats on the radio this morning). 5 million less users of water would save 900 million gallons per day. In a year, 328.5 billion gallons of water. That is not a drop in the bucket.
If Governor Moonbeam was really interested in his legacy, instead of the billions of dollars he’s wasting on his bullet train to nowhere that nobody wants, he would spend that money on fast-tracking desalination plants. Then he could also feel good about combating the “rising seas” due to global warming.
First off, the 180 gallons a day includes landscape watering, which takes up more than half. Since I think we can agree that illegals don't tend to be watering their lawns, since they don't tend to live in single family homes, that brings the average down.
Here's the math: 80% of California water use goes to agricultural irrigation. That leaves 20% for residential. Of that 20, more than half goes to landscape watering, a good chunk of it to golf courses, particularly those in the Palm Springs area. That leaves about 8% of total annual use to actual household use--toilets, showers, etc. Illegals make up about 10% of the population, so about 0.8% of water, assuming that they use the same amount a water as, say, someone in Beverly Hills. Maybe not a drop in a bucket, but if they all disappeared tomorrow, it wouldn't solve the problem.
Jack has many excellent movies.
We feel this was one of his best, if not the best.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.