Posted on 04/05/2015 12:00:01 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
They should all move BACK to Mexico.
It’s not like this is anything new, really. It’s just escalated. They already sucked the Colorado dry. What’s next then? I visited California back in the 80’s. All I could think was, “This place is a freakin’ desert!” That’s why they like it, right? The “good weather”.
Once the groundwater is all gone, what are people going to do?
Move to conservative areas...
Nooooo!!!
Go east, thirsty young man, go east.
I wonder if suburban water theft has become a problem yet.
The swimming pools in LA are still brimming full and being constantly replenished. So are they really concerned about this drought?
Drink beer.....!!!!!
Kind of a karmic blowback for bankrupting farmers over the Delta smelt. No California liberals cared as those fields and orchards dried up and blew away.
And all that SJW bullshyte doesn’t work against droughts.
Lets pray for rain. This is world class serious!
God will not be mocked.
Huge quantities of water are pumped under high pressure into large molecular filters in a process known as reverse-osmosis, a multi stage process which results in some fresh water - most of the slightly brinier water is returned to the sea. It should be regarded as more of a fresh water extraction process than a “conversion" process.
Another process uses evaporation - a partial distillation, which again produces a much smaller quantity of fresh water at the end than the quantity of salt water taken initially into the process.
The need for the return of salt water to the ocean is why de-sal plants are always located adjacent to the body of water providing the raw material.
De-sal plants can create relatively huge quantities of fresh water. It is only a question of scale and cost. Desalinated water is one to two orders of magnitude higher than natural water, but it is infinitely cheaper than abandoning billions of dollars of installed infrastructure.
They need a lot of power to operate and in my view can be integrated with nuclear power which can be optimized to provide the steady 24-7 power needed by desalinization. There ought to be a couple dozen under construction along the California coast right now.
Since there are none, it is almost certainly too late. Thank loads, anti nuke nutters.
According to Ansel12 (see above) there are a few desalination plants under construction in California. They will be a huge benefit to those communities where they are located, provided they do not become magnets for thirsty freeloaders.
This winter will be crunch time. Lets hope California gets lots of snowpack to replenish reservoirs and rescue its agriculture.
Minimal snowpack will means more well pumping which means more wells will go dry
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Meager snowpack bad news for drought-plagued Calif.
www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/04/01/california-sierra-snow...
Apr 01, 2014 · Meager snowpack bad news for drought-plagued Calif. Surveyors from California’s Department of Water Resources skied into the Sierra Nevada today to …
Oh, Oh, Oh Mistah Kattah, Mistah Kattah! Why don’t they just build an XXL Pipeline and bring water down from Canada? The Canucks don’t need it so much, they don’t even take baths up there . . .
If the illegals moved back they would recoup a quarter billion gallons of water a day (2,600,000 x 100 avg. gals). There has been a 4 trillion gallon shortfall a year, the savings would amount to 91 trillion. Crisis averted.
They will pour into the Intermountain states, Texas and the Midwest and turn most of them a disgustingly deep shade of blue.
Pray for more snow and rain in California.
There are 10,000 Demorat voting urban Californians for every owner of a farm. Guess what will happen to the water?
Stay out of Virginia. We have enough invaders from other foreign countries and we’re all out of water, too.
It would’ve been practical, but the filthy dems who run Cali don’t want solutions, they want the issue. What better way to subjugate a population than to limit its water supply?
“Don’t come here, we’re closed.”
Don’t know where your “here” is. But, mine is Texas. To all you Caliefornia folks; don’t come here either. You won’t like Texas. It’s not for you. We are a bunch of rednecks who love our Guns and God. I’m thinking you should go to the upper Midwest, or even better, the Northeast would be more to your liking. You will find lots of your fellow libs in those places. And, I hear their free stuff is fantastic!
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