Posted on 12/13/2016 8:05:41 PM PST by WayneLusvardi
There is no drought .If I win, believe me, were going to start opening up the water so that your farmers can survive Candidate Donald J. Trump, May 27, 2016, Fresno, California
If we dont move now, we run the real risk of legislation that opens up the Endangered Species Act in the future, when Congress will again be under Republican control, this time backed by a Trump administration. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Latest Compromise Drought Relief Bill Receives Praise, Opposition, Capital Press, December 7, 2016.
President-Elect Donald J. Trump is poised to score a win-WIIN deal in the California water war as Congress has passed the bi-partisan Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (WIIN Act Senate Bill 612). The bill passed by a vote of 78-21 on Saturday, December 10, after the Senate voted on it past midnight.
The force for breaking up the three-year political logjam of several water bills for California farmer drought relief is the election of Donald J. Trump to the presidency. In the above-cited quote, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said the specter of Trump and a Republican Congress was the reason for bi-partisan passage of the bill. Previously, since late 2014, five Republican and four Democrat drought-relief bills have failed.
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#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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