How Many People Will Have To Migrate Out Of California When All The Water Disappears?

Zero Hedge ^ | 04/03/2015 | Tyler Durden

[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?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Don’t come here, we’re closed.

[MaxMax]

They still have an Ocean that can be desalinated. But they probably fear
the ocean would run out of Water.

[fieldmarshaldj]

They should all move to Mexico.

[MaxMax]

[__rvx86]

Never mind the fact that the hydrological cycle still exists—there will always be water in the oceans...and the brine is probably worth something too...

[shibumi]

I was just thinking. (I have no idea if this would have been practical, just musing to myself.)

What would the situation be if all the funds that were squandered on crap projects like Solyndra had been put instead into desalination plants?

[lee martell]

It’s getting serious out here. The Governor is devising ration rules that he hopes will be quickly approved and implemented. We shall see what happens and at what pace, other than bloviating, that is. Even Obama, “the Royal American President”, may be effected if he comes to California ready to commandeer the biggest golf course.
He may find most the green has turned brown.

[MaxMax]

They wouldn't even need to desalinate at the waters edge, it can be pumped inland
to preserve the natural beaches and beauty. But the whacky Eco-terrorists don't care,
stubborn.

I wonder how much one plant would cost, and how many homes is would support.

[Aria]

My broker, who is in San Diego, told me that desalination plants will be starting up and down the coast. He said once Carlsbad got through the permit process and other initial states (they’re going live this year) that other areas are following Carlsbad’s example. He spoke as if this was fact, not theory.

[Politicalkiddo]

I’m already leaving ASAP. I hope that the other states aren’t stupid enough to allow the freeloading criminals in this state into theirs...

[Spktyr]

Funny thing is that CA doesn’t really have the power grid to support significant numbers of desalination plants.

[Cowboy Bob]

This was not a problem before all the illegals started coming...

[marron]

Oh, OK. I’ll go.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Once the groundwater is all gone, what are people going to do?

The legislature will pass a bill causing any remaining water to be diverted to the Pacific Ocean to decrease the excess salinity caused by global warming.

[ltc8k6]

I think an even bigger high speed rail project is the answer.

[Viking2002]

A big, fat coastal quake should moot the whole problem, as far as I can see. The last thing I want or need is a bunch of mincing pansies and Cali beach burnouts wrecking my county, state, and region with their brand of hippy-dippy Socialism and alley cat moral attributes.

[ansel12]

The Carlsbad plant opens next year and will be the largest in the Western hemisphere.

Santa Barbara is bringing back their 1991 desalination plant that they mothballed in 1992, when the water situation suddenly improved back then.

There are other plants coming.

[Secret Agent Man]

The illegals can go back to where they are legal.

[Tzimisce]

We’ll just raise taxes so people use less water.

There: I fixed it. :)