Posted on 04/09/2015 7:34:41 PM PDT by QT3.14
Gov. Jerry Brown has taken a dramatic, but dangerous, step by issuing an executive order to cut non-agricultural water usage by 25 percent. The unprecedented and problematic step will accomplish at once too little and too much. It will not seriously impact the shortage, but will simultaneously sour Californians on the need for a new approach to water use.
The seriousness of California’s water shortage is lost on no one. The state’s snowpack is a fraction of what it has been historically and ground water is being depleted at a rate well above replacement. The desolate images of California’s shrinking surface water storage sites confirm what the dire statistics cannot. Our water usage will never be the same. It’s possible the Golden State is not actually experiencing a drought, but is instead transitioning to a new environmental epoch.
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Yes indeed. They leave and then start implementing the same policies that caused them to leave to begin with - completely oblivious.
>>>And social security disability. Speaking Spanish is a disability<<<
In California, NOT speaking Spanish is a Disability. LOL
I have been a resident “overseas” for many a year and am well versed on how people live with it.
BUT, imho , has anyone ever heard of Guv Moonbeam or has it been publicized how he fixing this problem? Not me nor have I heard about initiatives on his part.
All you get from the news is they are water rationing in some areas with water smart meters .
Why isn’t Guv Moonbeam declaring a state of emergency in these areas and asking for federal help?
Oh,but imho maybe he is on federal grant gravy train to appropriate those funds to the newest influx of illegal immigrants & provide them with federal benefits.
this really stinks somebody needs to call Moonbeam out on this. He’s putting a lot of people in bad circumstances to say the least.
Failure of Water Planning in California should be the headline
“How Jerry Brown made the California drought worse and what can be done about it”
““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...”
My cousin phoned to say howdy this morning. He is a
builder of high end homes who partners with his rice
farmer younger brother on some farming projects in the
Central Valley. They do very well even in poor economic
times.This year, however, they have yet to learn their
water allotment for 2015. That is serious stuff
considering how late in the growing season it is getting.
Moonbeam never has been the farmer’s friend and since he
absolutely hates big business enough to run many corporations
out of state through taxing and regulations he has dug
himself a big hole. Unfortunately, he won’t find any
water at the bottom of that hole.
The water will not stay gone forever but until it comes
back Brown needs to start rationing the number of illegals
storming the border and consuming resources. But that
won’t happen because he is an idiot.
“...swimmin’ pools, movie stars...”
Imagine a coastline enhanced by desalinization plants driven by clean nuclear energy.
The author looks gay. Anyway, no mention of the DELTA SMELT, which is causing the diversion of a huge portion of their already-meager snow pack. And no talk at all about desalination or building LONG pipelines to take water from where it’s not needed (like flooding in the Mississippi), and bringing it to California, which still has the most productive farmland in the world (if you give it water, that is).
Naa, he’s just mad because he’s not being allowed to water his grass anymore and isn’t allowed to buy his way out of it.
we dont call em Moonbeam...for nothing!
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