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California: Running On Empty
VictorDavisHanson.com ^ | June 23, 2015 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 06/30/2015 4:09:06 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued

Domestic and agricultural wells are going dry all over Central California, especially in the corridors south of Fresno to the Grapevine, along the Sierra Nevada foothills, and out west of the 99 Freeway — anywhere there is not a deep aquifer. I have never seen anything quite like this water madness in 60 years, as families scrimp and borrow to drill, or simply move to town to take advantage of municipal wells. I have developed a habit as I drive to work to Stanford of counting the abandoned homes I see west of Highway 41 (sort of like counting those who sit in Wal-Mart not to shop, but to enjoy the air conditioning they cannot afford). The number increases each week. Retired couples — or families in general — apparently do not have tens of thousands of dollars to drill a deeper well, especially given the uncertainty of how fast the dropping water table will soon make their investment superfluous. Without water, there is nothing.

Some dry farmland is turning into vacant parcels. Many rural homes must have potable water trucked in. Hispanics who recently immigrated to California and bought or rented older homes with shallow wells in these areas of the valley countryside have no money to drill deeper $30,000 domestic wells. Nor do many poor whites, who often live in isolated communities in the foothills. Who has the capital to gamble on finding scarce water in dicey granite seams? There is no water in the reservoirs left to recharge the water table or to fill canals that can be tapped for domestic use.

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1 posted on 06/30/2015 4:09:06 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
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To: fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; GOPsterinMA; randita; Sun; NFHale; ExTexasRedhead; GeronL; ..

California may suffer a net population loss soon, which is astonishing.


2 posted on 06/30/2015 4:10:16 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Another reason to get out of the commie state!
My brother and is family just left today for Texas! God bless them!


3 posted on 06/30/2015 4:10:52 PM PDT by vpintheak (Call the left what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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To: Clintonfatigued

When I saw the headline I thought it was referring to the state treasury.


4 posted on 06/30/2015 4:12:27 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Sounds like the 1930s Dustbowl.

Now it'll be the Callies moving to Oklahoma.

5 posted on 06/30/2015 4:12:44 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Clintonfatigued
Fewer illegals or more dams & desalinization plants.

The Democrats have to face that choice.

6 posted on 06/30/2015 4:13:38 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Clintonfatigued

Partly self inflicted?

Reminds me of the rolling brownouts of a few years ago. The libs had a not-in-my-backyard, keep nature pristine attitude about power plants and power generation and found themselves running short on power.

Must have fixed the problem.


7 posted on 06/30/2015 4:14:33 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: vpintheak

Hoping the housing market keeps going up here one more year in the Bay Area, we are 11 months out from selling and au revoir California


8 posted on 06/30/2015 4:14:53 PM PDT by Jolla
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
The Democrats have to face that choice.

Why would you think that? They've never faced it before, so why should that change?

9 posted on 06/30/2015 4:15:54 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("And that drummer from that one band whose name I can't remember is also dead."~SamAdams76)
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To: Clintonfatigued

The state is rolling in dough, just buy some water.


10 posted on 06/30/2015 4:15:58 PM PDT by Cboldt
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Politics aside ... you are correct. The State has plenty of money. I know they are spending heavy on desalinization plants. Haven’t read much more than that though.


11 posted on 06/30/2015 4:18:37 PM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: Clintonfatigued
California may suffer a net population loss soon, which is astonishing.

You mean the Mexicans might go home? Good.

12 posted on 06/30/2015 4:21:42 PM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: Clintonfatigued
If it does not rain or snow soon, we are going to see things unimaginable.

VDH is not given to over-statement.

So, we all had best be alert.

13 posted on 06/30/2015 4:23:04 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: Clintonfatigued

God will not be mocked.


14 posted on 06/30/2015 4:23:58 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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bump


15 posted on 06/30/2015 4:24:32 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: Clintonfatigued
You just can't make this stuff up. Liberals ARE this stupid.

Just 10 short months after California Governor and all around liberal dumbass Jerry Brown (Dem) invited hordes of ILLEGAL aliens into the state he is now saying the state is overpopulated and is pushing the idea of depopulation. Only 10 months later!

Now that, my FRiends, is what democRATs call leadership!

August 26, 2014 Jerry Brown: Immigrants, citizen or not, 'welcome in California'

June 22, 2014 Jerry Brown pushing depopulation in California: Too many people, not enough water, something has to go!

16 posted on 06/30/2015 4:27:05 PM PDT by South40 ("I probably identify more as a democRAT" ~Donald Trump)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Under communists liberals control California spent billions on stupid project and neglected the need for water. Even now Moombeam pushing for this rail crap instead of taking care of the water problem. The communists liberals would rather save a little fish and starve the population of little people water. Can you imagine that? Communists don't give a damn and California is loaded from Hollywood, MSM, and the very government running the State.
17 posted on 06/30/2015 4:27:24 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: Clintonfatigued
Wave Broadband was hit last night. They had three cables cut in a attack ( KCRA.com )
18 posted on 06/30/2015 4:27:30 PM PDT by Domangart
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To: Clintonfatigued

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...

60% of the illegals still come here, and that isn’t going to change anytime soon.


19 posted on 06/30/2015 4:27:56 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: Clintonfatigued

This breaks my heart. Not that I have any great love for CA, which was lost in the mid-sixties IMHO; but because it is still the land of my birth, and my ancestors were pioneers there, and I still have many cousins there. During the past 3 years, when I made many trips to Fresno, as my mother died (at 101) and I witnessed this devastation first hand.


20 posted on 06/30/2015 4:30:46 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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