Those Mexicans sure are a thirsty bunch...
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.
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.
“the catastrophic environmental destruction tied to ocean water desalination”
Bull and s***.
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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!)
Property in California is absurdly overvalued, and the correction is going to be amazing.
And moon beam Brown opts for a high speed rail that goes no where keep voting democrat California.