Dang the cost - gov will work out some kind of rebate / subsidy.
And - this being California - the crops can be irrigated with Brawndo.
Posted on 07/28/2022 2:53:35 AM PDT by Libloather
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A new plan to reroute how water moves from wetter Northern California to drier Southern California would ferry some of it through a single, 45-mile (72-kilometer) underground tunnel, wrapping around the state’s existing water delivery system and dumping it into the main aqueduct that flows south to vast swaths of farmland and millions of people.
The proposal released Wednesday would build one tunnel to take water from the Sacramento River, the state's largest, to the California Aqueduct for delivery further south. It's scaled back from the two-tunnel plan championed by former Gov. Jerry Brown and the latest iteration of a project that has been talked about and planned in some form, but never constructed, for about half a century.
When Gov. Gavin Newsom took office in 2019, he ordered water officials to scrap the existing plan and start over. With one tunnel, the new proposal moves less water and aims to reduce harms to the environment. But most critics say the new route will still harm endangered species like salmon and people who rely on the water in the north.
The two sides have become so entrenched that the project's fate will ultimately depend on whether Newsom or a future governor can muster the political will to push it through, said Jeffrey Mount, a senior fellow with the Water Policy Center at the Public Policy Institute of California.
“This project is unlikely to be decided on its technical merits," he said.
State water officials say a tunnel is badly needed to modernize the state's water infrastructure in the face of climate change, which scientists say is likely to cause both prolonged droughts and major deluges of rain and snow.
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The view is more important than desalination plant.
water tunnel
“When Gov. Gavin Newsom took office in 2019, he ordered water officials to scrap the existing plan and start over. With one tunnel, the new proposal moves less water and aims to reduce harms to the environment. But most critics say the new route will still harm endangered species like salmon and people who rely on the water in the north.”
These people cannot even manage water.
And - this being California - the crops can be irrigated with Brawndo.
It’s got electrolytes!
How about you build a desalinization barge and sail up and down In Malibu
Money funnel
Let them build it. Once an earthquake hits and breaks the pipe maybe it will lube a fault enough to slide californicate into the ocean where there is plenty of water for all.
Oh, goody! A long tunnel in Earthquake central.
It’s got what plants crave!
“The view is more important than desalination plant.”
Apparently, there is or were oil pumps in a California mall. The mall was built more or less to have structures disguising the pumps. Another was inside a fake synagogue.
https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/hidden-oil-wells/
Frankly, I’m thinking if your entire civilization depends on oil, and, it does, you should bring the things out in the open. Paint them nicely or something. But don’t hide them.
Also, a truly efficient desalination plant would require a fossil fuel of worse, nuclear power source. Both are abhorrent to Gaia.
Did it occur to anyone how long this is going to take by the time they are done haggling over contractors, confiscating land, figuring out how to pay for it, underestimating how much it’s going to cost, getting the raw materials, and doing the actual work with government paid contractors?
The new Peace Bridge would be finished before this boondoggle will be.
I thought they hated pipelines
“This project is unlikely to be decided on its technical merits.”
Duh.
L
And now they decide to propose ideas to address water shortages that have been going on for decades?
Or they could build dams to capture the Sierra runoff.
But this is CA we’re talking about
What’s old is new.
Remember the range wars? Cattle farmers vs. sheep herders
And farmers vs. ranchers
Ronald Reagan apparently did not originate this, but he really nailed it when he said, “A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.”
Kalifornia passed a massive levy a bunch of years ago to fund new water storage reservoirs across the state to provide water. NOT A SINGLE project touted in the levy campaign has had a single shovel full of dirt turned.
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