Posted on 05/15/2015 9:04:45 AM PDT by Kartographer
It’s even more dire in unincorporated East Porterville than the last time CBS13 was there. Tulare County buys and trucks in water to refill tanks in people’s front yards.
In a sign of increasing desperation, some have resorted to stealing bottled water from their neighbors. A woman CBS13 spoke to says thieves ripped off the water pump she uses to wash her clothes and take showers that was hooked up to her tank.
Thankfully the county replaced it.
Andrew Lockman with Tulare County Office of Emergency Services says some go to nearby communities that have water and just help themselves.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacramento.cbslocal.com ...
I believe this is about driving the little guy out so his land can be bought for cheap. Once enough land has been bought, all people but the rich will only be able to rent property. Then policies will be created to make the land free once more.
Owning land will essentially become illegal in California.
I typed green, but my auto correct made it free.
Wal mart sells bottled watee. Dont they have any wal marts to loot?
Wal mart sells bottled water. Dont they have any wal marts to loot?
On a planet 3/4 covered in oceans, it takes the concerted efforts of a committed bureaucracy to create a water shortage.
Lasar stamp the molecules. ;-)
Just outside of Trinidad,CO on the mesa there have been people shot and killed over stealing irrigation water.
My grandfather used to tell the story of him pulling one of his neighbors (who happened to be drunk) out of a ditch. The guy was apparently diverting water to his box.
Lots of stories of people stealing water. I would not have taken the water commissioner job for all the tea in china.
MFO
Desalination has been blocked by the EPA since the eighties.
There was a 1930s movie Frontier Horizon with John Wayne that supposedly followed the story line of LA/Mulholland taking the Owens Valley Water but all the names were changed.
There is a scene from the Frontier Horizon movie in the Cadillac Desert movie which was made in 1997, which was based on the book Cadillac Desert published in '88 &'92.
The other movie on the fight for the Owens Valley water was Chinatown from '74.
look at Katrina....people building on marsh land and land susceptible to flooding basically and on land even the Indians knew better then to build on...
the West, a good part of it, is just plain old dry, especially many parts of California...
so what do we do?..build huge retirement communities, encourage pools at every house, and huge golf courses kept green year round....and by God we'll keep all those lawns green no matter what...
I can see water for crops....that is critical and essential to human life....
but for the rest of it....we just need to start living simpler and more in tune with the resources available..
I grew up in upstate NY, the southern tier, and at our house, because for many years we had a well, we did not waste water. if you wanted to water your vegetables, we carried water and carefully dumped it preciously right at the roots...showers were quick.....and my mother had one of those wringer washers that she filled with hot water, ran the whites thru, and preceeded using the same water until the darks were complete...
wasting water was not what our parents and grandparents did....
Cool, thank you, I’ll look for it!
I agree. There have been all these questionable reports of this being the worst drought ever in California. Then a report on the news the other day showing much worse California droughts in the past, based on tree ring studies. Governmental policies created this "crisis". Yes there is a shortage of water for people, but only because the government makes it so. No new dams, tearing down old ones, diverting water and flushing it to the ocean, etc. This water shortage didn't need to be so, as droughts are cyclical and they knew this one was coming.
You'll see the floods on TV.
Water is a political tool for the Democrats.
In my county, the Democrat County Commissioners stopped all development they didn’t like because it “might” affect the wells of rich Democrat landowners.
Now, if you want to put in subsidized housing for Democrat voters, well, that’s a whole different thing.
Ack, they’ve already invaded and brought their commie ideas and high property taxes to Texas.
The Baptist church dug themselves a fishing pond and cut off the creek that used to run behind our house. Several neighbors have tried to take them to court but they’re laughed out. The church is too big and steps on us little peons.
Look at CA celebrity homes on real estate sites and all their elaborate lush green lawns, gardens and swimming pools.
And the idiot rice farmers in Texas have a lobby (about the largest lobby) so they can divert precious water to their rice farms. They don't care they're putting those upstream out of business. Excuse me, but how about planting something that will grow in the South Texas environment instead of water loving rice. Common sense tells you that but nooooo.
“My dad used to tell of gunfights over water rights on the high plains when we lived there.”
I’ve heard the same along the Gila River here in SW New Mexico. Some people felt more ‘entitled’ to the water out of the irrigation ditches during periods of drought, and would ‘borrow’ water when it wasn’t their turn. Such ended up in gun play on some occasions.
What a difference a few decades makes! People would shoot at others to ensure they received the water they were legally entitled to for their crops and livestock. Now days the environmentalists say a damn minnow is more deserving of the water and everybody throws up their hands in defeat! We have become pussified in the liberal lies of political correctness!
Well, in all fairness, not everybody has become pussified. The MEN that showed up to protect the Bundy ranch were anything but pussies. I’d say there must be something in the water that prevents men from building more water retention areas, prevents men from using that water flowing to the ocean so a minnow can swim in it, prevents men from saying “to hell with another choo choo, we’re building damns and desalinization plants”, but it can’t be in the water because they aren’t allowed anywhere near it anymore as they sit there watching acres and acres and acres of crops wither up and die.
I’ve seen aerial/satelite maps of areas in Mendocino, Humbolt, and Trinity Counties that show all the dope growers taking every last little seep coming out of the ground and routing it to their marijuana plots. THAT stolen water will not only change the the immediate environment there, but prevents the aquifers that the communities are dependent upon for their household water from being replenished. THAT is something that could be prevented if enough people became involved in the effort. But nope, people want the drugs and dollars more than life sustaining water!
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