Posted on 06/19/2015 7:57:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Although we have always had plenty of water, southern Oregon is also going through a drought and I am worried. you can see our Douglas fir evergreen trees are showing more and more signs of brown on their needles.
“Brown is the new Green...” Yeah, those signs are going up all over California. That’ll stop the drought crisis, right? Wrong. California has been dumb enough to elect moonbats like Brown, Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein, and the list goes on and on. There haven’t been any new dams built in the once “Golden State” in decades. The population has increased several times over since the last dam was built. There are no plans to increase storage capacity, and hence, California has domed itself, having succumbed to the environmentalistic whackos. Ho hum...
10% or less for the security of water seems a very small price to pay.
The illegals take showers and drink water....
No No, can’t say anything about them...
Those Mexicans sure are a thirsty bunch...
People keep falling into the lefts trap of talking about how there has been no global warming for the last 10-18 years as proof of no global warming.
That amount of time is irrelevant when you’re talking about climate change but people keep talking about it makes it relevant.
The next time the temperature rises for a couple of years it will then be used as proof of global warming because everyone has agreed 10-18 years is enough time to determine climate change.
By constantly shortening the time frame changes in the weather becomes climate change.
An average of 265,000 cu ft/s of fresh water flows into the Pacific Ocean from the Columbia River. An aqueduct to divert a small portion to southern Oregon would resolve the drought problem in southern Oregon. An aqueduct to California would make some revenue for Oregon.
Umm You don’t have to dump the salt back into the ocean. You can actually truck it north where they need it to keep roads clear during the winter.
Is that true?
Then this is true
Cannabis growers are not helping California during a severe drought as pot plants are sucking up a priceless resource: water.
But if what I heard about moonbeam back in the 1960s not to worry potheads.. That headline actually reads:
California Governor Exempts Marijuana From Restrictions on Water
California Liberals cheer news.
Hardly. By any serious calculation, illegals consume less than 1% of the water in California. 80% goes to agriculture, and of the 20% that's left, the majority goes to landscape watering. Actual human consumption--toilets, drinking, showers--is about 8%, with affluent areas using more than poorer, and illegals make up about 10% of the population.
The fact is that California exports more water to China, locked as moisture content in alfalfa, than illegals consume.
We never had water and could not populate Southern California until water rights were in place. That was done and millions came which was fine.
California had a decade of great rain and Jerry Brown decides to give the water rights away during his first term which has led us to being doomed now.
Legally Jerry should have never been able to give the water rights away.
Oh well, no water for illegals and their children for starters.
So much of the so-called water shortage in CA is propaganda created by Jerry Brown and his cohorts. Rather than build desalination plants for the past number of years, Brown would rather spend billions of dollars on a useless high speed railroad to nowhere.
I live in the Coachella Valley, the low desert of CA east of Los Angeles (Palm Springs and other desert resort cities).
Our drinking water comes from a huge underground aquifer which has been built up over thousands of years. There is more than an adequate supply of water. However, due to population growth, this area has been in overdraft in recent years. That means that we have been taking more water out than is being restored. So, the water companies here have had a major program for several years to convert the huge agricultural areas to drip irrigation from field flooding irrigation, as well as converting residential landscape to so-called desert plant landscaping. As a result, there have been major reductions in water use, and within 5 years, the overdraft situation is projected to be reversed.
In addition, the water companies have converted to using tiered pricing for residential and business use. In other words, the more you use, the higher the water price per unit used.
Most of the many golf courses here have been using recycled water for irrigation. That does two things. It provides an additional source of income for the water companies, and it provides a way to dispose of this water which cannot be used for drinking.
Jerry Brown and crew in their infinite wisdom have decreed that this entire state shall fall under control of his state water board. That board has decreed draconian water reductions for the entire state even though many areas do not have a water shortage.
In the Coachella Valley, we are being told that our water usage must be cut by 36%. If we do not do so, we will be hit with huge financial penalties. For example the surcharge for those in the highest water usage tier will result in a water rate that is 10 times the charge for the lowest tier.
One last thing, while all of this is going on, near the San Gorgonio Pass which is the entrance to our valley from the west, there is a huge water bottling plant on Indian owned land. It is taking water the comes down from the San Bernardino Mountains, water that would have been used to re-charge the underground aquifer. It is selling that bottled water to a major national bottled water company. So, water is being shipped out of this state at the same time that we are being forced to reduce our use.
Nice little trick the left plays with that 80% statistic: they only look at human consumption. The conveniently leave off the amount of water that is diverted for environmental uses like increased river flows for the Delta Smelt. I don't have the number nor the time to find it right now, but I believe the amount that is used for environmental "use" dwarfs what the humans - including the farmers that grow the food we eat - are using.
I wonder what the chances are of all these facts sinking into
the head of the average Californian by 2016.
This Texan will never forget Liberal Nation mocking Perry when after he asked we pray for rain in the infernal ‘11 summer, then the wilfires started with TS Lee.
That said, Lord please restore CA as you have TX, amen.
This is a government made crisis to manipulate
Actually, I think the author made that point - that this is the worst drought in the history of the state of California - but California has only been a state for a little over a century and a half. The author makes the point that the 20th century saw an unusually high level of precipitation for the region. Using proxy data (growth ring data from old-growth trees, etc.), it becomes clear that drought is the normal condition for California. In fact, in the last millenia or so, California has had droughts that lasted decades, and in one case, centuries.
“the catastrophic environmental destruction tied to ocean water desalination”
Bull and s***.
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Manufactured emergencies courtesy of the federal and state government.
There is probably more water used just to keep golf courses in Palm Springs green than is consumed by every human in the state.
This also goes for Almond and Orange growers. I read that almond groves consume more water than every other crop.
The coastal cities of California, like San Diego, need to build desalinization plants. I was in Aruba recently. They have the second biggest desalinization plant in the world. After Israel. Aruba is a desert island. They get virtually no rain. Yet, I could drink the water right out of the tap and not worry about bacteria. They have plenty of water to irrigate, drink and swim in.
I say let’s go biblical. God is punishing California for starting/advancing Gay Marriage! Especially when the public voted it down .... twice!
(As a practicing LDS (Mormon) I also believe that when the gays surrounded/threatened the Los Angeles LDS Temple about four years ago was when God finally got fed-up!)
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