Not sure you gain all that much, other than another place to put tourist attractions and the valley will be silt.
What a stunningly idiotic idea.
Let them drink Perrier.
Power for me but not for thee.
They’re going to retrofit two dams in Ann Arbor Michigan with generators. Its the other 3000 dams in the state that need to come out.
Power generation and drinking water....
SO how’s will they take if they remove their source???
The scary thing it that SF will vote to get rid of its water supply, then it will go to court to take somebody else’s water. Let’s not even start with the lost electrical power.
They oughta put the useless Yosemite under water too, no? More water for everybody.
LOL this is too funny.
They can replace the electric power with coal plants or just do without and have brown-outs. They can just do without the water like the farmers they screwed had to do.
Plus, they shouldn’t complain about extra $2,777 per household a year that their water will cost it’s less than Obamacare will cost them.
Not sure you gain all that much, other than another place to put tourist attractions and the valley will be silt.
The bill in question directs the city to "devise a plan", and if this is anything like other eco-fantasy pipe dreams that's going to be quite a plan. They will follow it at their peril, and it shouldn't be up to the rest of us to bail them out when the cost of feeling good about themselves starts to become apparent.
Nevertheless, so long as the recourse isn't simply to pull power from the grid elsewhere, and expropriate other people's water, then I say go for it. Its proponents may find that "sustainable" really does have a meaning.
So these lunatics are going to vote to eliminate their own water supply. Is there a downside to this?
Pray for America
Not to speak of the higher cost associated with water and power that goes with no longer using the resource for dirt cheap ....$30,000 a year... Liberalism is a mental disorder....
At the same time this $14 billion water project to drain the Sacramento Delta sending more water southward is in the works:
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jul/25/california-embarks-on-massive-water-project/
When they undam the valley, the years and years of silt buildup will go down stream and destroy all the fish all the way to the sea.
But hey, California has Billions of dollars in the bank to go replace perfectly good power and water systems for the fun of it right?
The most common things in the universe are ignorance and stupidity. San Francisco leads on both counts. Perversion-addled brains may contribute to the problem.
San Francisco County has a watershed (in terms of ueful water supply for humans) of exactly zero.
I lived the first third of my life in SF.
I will probably live the final third of my life in the California Central Valley, which is on its way to becoming a dust bowl, thanks to the actions and inaction of the arrogant Dianne Feinstein.
Perhaps a similar fate would be a good irony for Sodom-by-the-Bay.
It will be a silty mess that no one will be able to “enjoy” for many years. SoCalEd drained one of its reservoirs in the sierra for maintenance on a 90 year old dam. It looked like a barren moonscape. No one was allowed down there, all access was blocked, to protect “native sites”. Yeah, the real reason is because they didn’t want to be liable for some nimrod who might get mired in the muck down there.
So, you drain a dam that provides water for a water starved state.
You hope to uncover another Yosemite.
After 80 years, you find said valley covered in 100 feet of silt.
What now libs? Drink sewer water, bitches!
First mega taxes, then the bullet train, now dumping all the water for the Bay Area.
Al Qaida couldn’t do a better job of destroying California than the Democrats.
I pray that the commie lib idiots of San Francisco vote to slit their throats by eliminating their primary source of clean drinking water. I am praying for it.
When they can’t secure water for people to drink, I’m going to celebrate with a bottle of champagne and a night of raucous laughter.
Stupidity should never go unrewarded.
I'm sure the valley is a beautiful place; but water for humans is kind of an important thing!