Posted on 04/04/2015 5:55:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Market Solution: California is so dry that Gov. Jerry Brown has instituted water-use restrictions for the first time in the state's history. The problem, though, is not a shortage of water. It's a shortage of thinking.
The Parched State — once known as the Golden State — is so dry that Brown said it "demands unprecedented action." "We have to pull together and save water in every way we can," Brown said Wednesday from Echo Summit in the Sierra Nevada, where, AP reports, "state water officials found no snow on the ground for the first time in their April manual survey of the snowpack."
"Were in a new era," said Brown. "The idea of your nice little green grass getting water every day, that's going to be a thing of the past."
Using an executive order, the Democratic governor, according to an official statement, "directed the State Water Resources Control Board to implement mandatory water reductions in cities and towns across California to reduce water usage by 25%."
Brown is also requiring "campuses, golf courses, cemeteries and other large landscapes to make significant cuts in water use" while prohibiting "new homes and developments from irrigating with potable water unless water-efficient drip irrigation systems are used," and has banned the "watering of ornamental grass on public street medians."
No, this is not a new era. It's still the era of limited thinking. It's the Soviet way of dealing with scarcity. What California needs is more water, not more government mandates. Water is a commodity just like any other, and its allocation should not be left to governments.
If it were bought and sold in an open market, there would be a strong incentive to move water to where demand is high and supply is low — such as California.
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If water is scarce than whomever controls the water controls life.
The crazy liberals are killing the country one day at a time at some point one would think the loony voters would wise up but again one would have a better chance of spotting a UFO.
Do the math.
When I lived in the big valley, they had rice farms.
You would have that water run out to the sea rather than sell it?
The people growing crops in California are far from socialists. They are very conservative.
If you don't get your crops from California, you're going to get them from Mexico or other third world nations. Your choice!
Not much lawn mowing going to be needing done.
We ought to start with rice and cattle. The trees will die and that will end the almonds. But here agriculture IS the problem. There is enough water storage for the population. Also, Brown had better tell the rest of the country that we're not going to be feeding them any more. Most of the fresh fruits and vegetables they all enjoy comes from California. So you Texans who love to denigrate California had better find a recipe for marinated cow patties, and get used to eating more Poke Salad and Fricassee of Armadillo.
As I sit here reading this post, my sump pump is running almost continuously, removing the 8.27” of rain we have received in the last 48 hours. I’d be happy to send some to California we sure don’t need all of it in Louisville.
Maybe not. But they do ship an awful lot of feed to China for their cattle.
The Marxists in Sacramento will be sending the Gatorade to water the crops on the high speed train.
I was thinking about this the other day. We have had rolling blackouts/brownouts during the summer. Now water is being rationed. Radio, and Television are full of PSA's telling us when we can use appliances. Our roads are crumbling, and they are trying hard to force us all into mass transit. You can't do anything without jumping through a myriad of government hoops. I have never lived in a socialist country, but it sure seems to me this state is very similar to a socialist republic.
Fukushima was about five reactor-generations ago, and would never pass muster for new construction today. And enormous quantities of waste was being stored in cooling ponds on site. And the diesel generator was in a low spot, susceptible to flooding. And there were only 8 hours of battery backup. These are all highly surmountable engineering problems. And then there’s thorium/molten salt reactors, which can’t melt down at all under any circumstances. The problems that California faces aren’t ecological or related to lack of water. They are related to ideology and the difficulty of making wise, long-term decisions based on known history and climate. They should root for climate change, the place has had thousand-year droughts in the past and another one might have just started five years ago. Climate change would be a lifesaver given their lack of foresight.
Correct!
Seeing as how H3llary was at Di-Fi’s the night before super Tuesday, how Kam Kuwata’s murder brought Di-Fi to speak about something she knew—followed by 0bama’s DNC pilfering her campaign accounts—and Di-Fi’s husband receiving something on the order of $2 Bn for this high speed rail, I think what we have here is 0bama paying off Di-Fi for her knowledge and action (or no action) on the fraud that 0bama is. Nice work if you can get it.
Perhaps other of those billions for high speed rail go to Pelosi or others who also know of the 0bama fraud.
Democrats are people who believe using less foreign oil without producing it domestically will make us oil independent, so it’s no wonder why they would bypass plans for producing water in favor of just using less. By their calculus, we can become 100% less water dependent if we just stop it use entirely.
“Correct. Maybe it’s time to grow a LOT more of your favorite vegetables east of the Rocky Mountains, where (generally) the precipitation is higher than in California.”
The problem with that is the narrow growing season in the Midwest and elsewhere. I was in the Salinas Valley last week and the strawberries are ready to pick, so you could kiss the bounty that our year-round growing season produces goodbye. The problem is our idiotic government is replete with “greenies” who keep us from developing alternative and additive water resources. We haven’t built any additional storage facilities for 30 years despite a 50% increase in population coupled with the opening of more acreage to agriculture. We should take the money we are pissing away on a train no one will use and devote it to nuclear power and desalinization plants. After all we have the biggest “reservoir” in the world on our western coast. We have, for too long relied on snowpack to backfill our reservoirs. We have had decent amounts of rain that has raised lake levels, but the snow is not there this year.
Take a look at this graphic:
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/getResGraphsMain.action
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California is under God’s judgement.
The “shutting” of the skies is the exact form of the most frequently declared judgements in the Bible.
In normal years California has the highest snowfall levels in the lower 48, but as the far left has taken hold through union control of the voting process, our snowfall has tapered off to near nothing.
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Drip irrigation is not used much in the US because it is expensive, except greenhouse growers use it.
There is no such thing as a "temporary" interruption of water to an orchard. Cut the water off and it dies, permanently. Meanwhile, you don't mention rice. My suggestion is that you learn more before posting.
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