Posted on 08/10/2015 4:09:18 PM PDT by Sean_Anthony
There's much more to California's drought than lack of rain.
California is currently in the grip of one of the worst droughts in state history. Gov. Jerry Brown has signed an executive order that imposes water restrictions on residents, businesses, and farms across the state.
While the state is clearly experiencing this drought, the extreme weather shortages are an ongoing and man-made human tragedy—one that has been brought on by overzealous liberal environmentalists who continue to devalue the lives and livelihoods of California residents in pursuit of their own agenda. It comes down to this: which do we think is more important, families, or fish, asks Carly Fiorina. (1)
She adds, “With different policies over the last 20 years, all of this could have been avoided. Droughts are nothing new in California—the state has suffered from them for centuries. The difference now is that government policies are making it much worse. Despite the awareness around this issue, liberals continue to develop and promote policies which allow much of California’s rainfall to wash out to sea.”
Specifically, these policies have resulted in the diversion of more than 300 billion gallons of water away from farmers in the Central Valley and into the San Francisco Bay in order to protect the Delta smelt, an endangered fish that environmentalists have continued to champion at the expense of Californians. This water is simply being washed out to sea, instead of being channeled to the people who desperately need it. (1)
Just wait until the Gold King mine toxic waste spill by the EPA contaminates the Colorado River...because our leaderless government hasn’t dammed up the San Juan River to prevent the contamination.
California (LA!) uses 5 million acre-feet of fresh Colorado River water each year.
Thanks to the federal government under 0bama (EPA spilled it, 0bama failed to stop the spill from further contaminating fresh water downstream), those 5 million acre-feet of fresh water are about to disappear...
...replaced by toxic water.
Who cares?
Think of Mexifornia as a giant anthill.
Borax mixed with sugar’ll do it.
No, no. I mean, who cares whether or not it’s endemic.
Kill em all.
Exactly right. Case in point would be: Poor Planning by the government, specifically: Santa Barbara Desal plant.
Built in 1991 for a capacity of 7,500 acre-ft per year the plant was shut down after less than a year of operation.
Had that plant operated all these years it could have produced 172,500 acre-ft of water or enough for almost 700,000 people.
One acre-ft is enough for a family of four for one year (as a rule of thumb).
While what the environmentalists take is precious and important for farms, it's CHUMP CHANGE compared to the lack of RAIN.
There will be plenty of water once the Limousine Liberals get all of the little people off their beaches and highways.
When it does rain, it all runs out to sea. California had torrential rains early this year but it just ran off the houses, into the streets, into the canals and streams and out to sea.
What is not being said in this article is that the ‘solution’ to keeping arid regions farming is to shut down the farms in the northern part of the valley (where the water is) and then send it south.
The Bay Delta ‘Conservation’ Plan (BDCP) will take 175,000 acres of delta farmland and change it into ‘habitat’. This is being done because when all the fresh water gets taken away from the Sacramento River delta then that delta will become a salt water wasteland so far as farming is concerned.
So 175,000 acres of farmland gets seized in eminent domain and 40,000 people get evicted from their towns, homes, and farms. All so another set of farmers can continue to farm in a desert. Oh, and so Los Angeles’ Metropolitan Water District can have more water. Can’t have the Hollywood elites with brown lawns, can we?
FReepers: Be careful what you think you’re supporting here. When you’re on the same side as Hollywood and Governor Jerry Brown you need to be asking yourselves what’s wrong with this picture!
[FReepers: Be careful what you think you’re supporting here]
You are obfuscating the fact that for the last 30 years environmentalist in CA have been on jihad to remove dams and impoundments that were in place to provide storage and aquifer recharge. Also in the mix were 20 billion in bonds sold to provide funding for water projects that would have mitigated much of the central valley issues. The money was siphoned away and no projects were built.
Anyone who has served in the military recalls being taught basic survival skills..including the fact that when potable water is NOT available, it is safe to consume your own urine three times before it becomes too toxic. Some of us, in long ago times, even had the “pleasure,” under the kind, benevolent gaze of our DIs, of trying a cup of our own piss, in order to prove the instructor correct...as in..”see, it won’t kill you.!” So, how long before Gov. Moonbeam informs Californians of this solution to the state’s water crisis?
Here in Norcal we have not seen Torrential Rains in 5 years.
Anyone who says other =wise is lying.
I’d kill an instructor who forced me to do that.
“So, how long before Gov. Moonbeam informs Californians of this (drinking one’s own urine) solution to the state’s water crisis?”
There was an article earlier today on FR discussing the public urination problem in San Freaksicko. A light pole that had been pissed on one too many times actually collapsed and almost killed a driver.
If they drank their own urine instead of pissing it away on their streets, it would be like killing two birds with one stone.
Northern California is a big area.
Sunday] Flooding in Humboldt: Photos and Observations
http://lostcoastoutpost.com/2014/dec/21/flooding/
It was big news that they got a soaking rain.
The rest of CA got squat...except some monsoon activity in SoCal, a completely different universe.
State agriculture is driven and CONTROLLED by what happens in the Sierra Nevada mountains, where trees as old as 500yrs are dying for lack of water.
Explain why these little bastards cannot be bred in a fishery and trucked to wherever the gaia worshippers feel they need to be? What makes them more valued than human beings..............oh yeah morons like moonbeam and his ilk.
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