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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You have identified a real issue.
The problem is, America has exported millions of jobs to other countries.
We import EVERYTHING.
That is turning states blue. What we need to do is to bring jobs back to America. Then people in America will be working, and every state won’t be turning ever more blue.
Bring back jobs to America.
Nah.....
5 to 7 million illegals.
No worry Obama will draft new legislation that requires that meters be installed on showerheads that require swiping your credit cards to send donations to His personal campaign funds if you use anything beyond a bucket of water. Hot water is extra.
Haven’t escaping Californians already ruined enough of the other states?
They can keep their illegals, progressives, homos, and Governor Moonbeam.
-——They need a lot of power to operate——
the power comes from gas in the mid east where the truly large de sal plants are running
Yeah...
Bring back jobs to America. Then we don’t have to worry about every state turning slowly ever-more blue.
But we need to make stuff here. Not buy Made-in-China everything at the mall.
America needs to make stuff once again.
Right here, in America.
So, the state of California, who is the most environmentally responsible, most dedicated to green energy, most hypersensitive about pollution and the planet is running out of water?
Proof that God has a sense of humor!
Funny but so true...
As long as the Pacific ocean is there and we now how to build desalt plants what can be the problem.?
California runs over 500 miles along the pacific ocean, where there is a tremendous supply of water. And since Al Gore tells us unequivocally the ocean levels are rising, we can drink that water and solve two problems.
Next year Carlsbad will open a desalinization plant. Santa Barbara is planning on re-opening their decommissioned one.
The only thing stopping more of these from being built is that we have liberal idiots in Sacramento, spending our money on bullet trains from one small valley town to another and on benefits for people who are in the country illegally. If we spent the billions on desalt plants, you’d come to us for water.
When the wailing and gnashing of teeth starts over the drought regulations some genius will get the ball rolling. Meanwhile God may solve the problem and we’ll go back to pretending it’s not going to happen again.
“...the ocean would run out of Water.”
Yeah and then the islands would sink or tip over.
the travesty of it all.
I don’t think the snail darter is threatened by CA drought.
Since it lives in Tennessee.
Ok, Delta Smelt then. Picky, picky.
Since California has the highest poverty rate and the highest share of population on welfare, there’s nowhere for them to go because other states are far less likely to take up the slack. California has 18.2 percent of the nation’s welfare spending because their benefits are so generous. They have only 12.2 percent of the nation’s population. The Dems did that to get a flood of illegals to turn the state blue.
See chart here: http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/compare_state_welfare_spend
Sorry, but your theory doesn’t even work in theory.
The water taken out of the ocean doesn’t stay out. It’s used and becomes part of the hydrologic cycle, eventually winding up back in the ocean.
In essence, desal is simply a variant of the natural method of removing water from the ocean by evaporation.
In theory desal could cause very, very localized increased salinity that could create problems for some species, but I think avoiding this as a significant issue is a pretty minor engineering question.
Those who worry about raising salinity of the ocean simply have no understanding of their immensity or of the hydrologic cycle.
Alas, the snail darter is or was a Tennessee enviro gambit to stop the installation of the 1930’s planned Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River.
The gambit failed and Tennessee Valley Authority bought lots and lots of property, built the dam, and then sold the un needed excess to politicians that sold the land at a profit to developers that borrowed money from banks and then went broke. Howard Baker (R), senator from Tennessee was one of the politicos
The snail darter is also doing fine. The built the dam and it didn’t go extinct. In fact, they found out it lives lots of other places.
Whatever, it just becomes a blur to me...Spotted Owl, etc.
One exception though where my conservative credentials weaken (LOL). I’ve (legally) held a Desert Tortoise once...they are ADORABLE. I want them to stick around - but I also believe they can co-exist with people using land.
The wacky Eco-terrorist will be sending millions of Californians out to the other states to destroy them. The Calis will leave because there no agua de beber and will recreate the California political system wherever they go. That’s why Colorado is not a Conservative state any more. In the East, of course, we have people escaping New York to pollute Florida and escaping Massachusetts to pollute New Hampshire. They can no longer stand to live in their own utopias so they leave to make new utopias elsewhere, always believing that is the crooked politicians and uncooperative Christians and the right wing crazies that ruined their own states.
The UT prof that came up with the snail darter crap was actually told to go find a reason to stop the Tellico Dam.
http://www.knoxnews.com/business/tellico-dam-still-generating-debate
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