Posted on 04/05/2015 12:00:01 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The drought in California is getting a lot worse. As you read this, snowpack levels in the Sierra Nevada mountains are the lowest that have ever been recorded. That means that there won’t be much water for California farmers and California cities once again this year. To make up the difference in recent years, water has been pumped out of the ground like crazy. In fact, California has been losing more than 12 million acre-feet of groundwater a year since 2011, and wells all over the state are going dry. Once the groundwater is all gone, what are people going to do?
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Migrate, Hell!
Build a wall and let them stew in their own juices.
God’s punishment in the millennium for those nations that won’t follow him, is to deny them rain.
Maybe he just got an early start?
(Certainly he will get their attention...)
Southern CA is desert. Northern CA is beautiful.
With Democrats in charge it probably would.
The big problem with desalination is all the salt it produces. What, exactly, should we do with that? Surely you don’t think we should pollute the ocean with that, do you?
I hope they get plenty of snow too. I was hoping the storms this pat winter would produce more snow.
"They" suck alright.
Our water company switched to tiered rates like electricity and natural gas. Water has gotten VERY expensive beyond the daily shave and a few glasses to drink.
If all the liberals and their politics left CA I would probably move back again.
After several years of terrible droughts, Texas seems finally back into our wet and muddy normal. thanking God and Mother Nature for that. I certainly feel for California.
Perhaps put it in the treated wastewater that is discharged into the ocean?
I would think also that if the balance of salt in the ocean is messed up it could have a bad affect on marine life.
“I would think also that if the balance of salt in the ocean is messed up it could have a bad affect on marine life.”
Maybe, just maybe, right at their outlet - but that’s about it, and only if they don’t bother running the plumbing far enough out. Just like power plants often develop a local ecosystem due to their localized warm water. But probably much less disruptive than even a power plant.
You are probably correct. But CA will have to form a committee to discuss it, then pay enormous fees to study the situation for decades, then go through their political process. By that time hopefully the drought will be over with or the liberals moved out and conservatives will have taken over and made some reasonable decisions.
I did the math. 1.5 cubic miles of desalinated water will supply every household in CA for a year. 10 cubic miles will cover all uses (including agriculture) in a typical year.
That’s a lot of water, but there is also a lot in the Pacific, as in 170,000,000 cubic miles. So I suspect that the natural salinity variations in Pacific water will far outweigh the effect of desalinization - assuming there’s any effect at all, since the fresh water consumed by desalination has to end up somewhere (i.e., the oceans, mainly).
I’m in TX now and my daughter is visiting from CA. It rained last night and I joked with her about not seeing that in awhile.
LOL.
My understanding is that the Carlsbad plant will produce water for a family of four at a price of 2,200 per annum.
So that is about triple the current cost that water is being sold for in CA I assume.
Let the market control the price and supply will become a non-issue. The problem is now that the state has agricultural and city orientation to water supply based upon their population from sixty years ago. Coupled with that are environmental controls that make problems for the old system to even come close to providing the needs.
Get rid of the illegals, and maybe that would help. I’ll be d***ed if I’ll conserve water just so some illegal alien can get my share.
You are outdated.
Fukushima was flooded and the backups failed.
All nuke plants in the US now have emergency generators in hardened buildings to be used as backups to the backups.
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