Posted on 12/13/2016 8:05:41 PM PST by WayneLusvardi
#fakedrought
Yep, more fake news.
No drought, just liberals cutting off the water.
If there was really a drought here you would think building permits might be restricted in some way. Nope, there are thousands of new condos and apartments being built.
Let Calif secede. Highway 5 would be a good demarcation point including Sacramento. Require they get passports.
Where there probably is drought is along the Colorado River, not California, which must have 4 years of backup water stored for a NORMAL hydrological cycle, but only has about a half year.
Time to restore Hetch Hetchy.
the “WIIN Act “???
LOL!!!
Time to remove the old hippies and their acolytes from government. Period. Work for your “causes” on your own time and dime. Not on the taxpayers’ money.
Do that in California and there won’t be anyone left in government. Ah, if only...
This is the leverage President Trump can use against liberal politicians in San Francisco. If they persist in having a sanctuary city, President Trump can withhold federal funding to San Francisco and California. If a fight continues, then President Trump can take Hetch Hetchy water away from San Francisco and use it as leverage against them. President Wilson signed the Raker Act in 1913 allowing SF to lease Hetch Hetchy under certain rules, which SF didn't follow. President Trump can sign an order to nullify the Raker Act, breaking the lease. Can be done right after inauguration if he wishes.
Bye-bye water and hydro electricity to SF and surrounding towns until they cave to the feds.
well if a few million illegals leave the state, there will be a lot less people to use up the current supply...
That would be beautiful to see. :-)
Drought will be over at the End of January 2017—I predict flooding, bridges out, lives lost, the rivers overflowing. Watch and see.
Drought will be over at the End of January 2017—I predict flooding, bridges out, lives lost, the rivers overflowing. Watch and see.
Bigly!
Lakes are really low for there to be no drought, hard to turn off the water when it runs down the side of a mountain into the lake.
Even better! Declare Hetch Hetchy to be a be a national monument and demolish the dam.
Low reservoirs do not make a drought, they make a water shortage.
By definition, a drought cannot be a shortage of enough water to withstand a normal rain cycle in California of 4 dry years and 1 wet year on average. There should be 4 years of backup water stored in reservoirs but there is only about a half year every year. So if it is going to be called a drought instead of a water shortage, then call it a structural drought because there is never enough stored water to last a normal water/rain cycle. California’s policy is not to build more dams but to squeeze more water out of the sponge of lawns of homeowners. As lawns continue to be replaced with rock gardens, urban areas will become hotter (urban heat island effect). Lawns cool homes. Go to a home in Palm Springs with a lawn and it is cooler than one with a rock garden. 40% of lake water goes to farming, 10% to cities, 50% for fish in California. While cities and farms have mandated conservation, California’s policy for water for the environment is wasting water by flushing it to the ocean.
Especially when they could pour water into the rivers for smelt but not farms.
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