People blamed for water woes in West

AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/31/08 | Erica Werner - ap

[iopscusa]

Nothing 20-40M more 3rd world illegal aliens can’t cure.

[Myrddin]

"The climate's changing in the West. We've known that. The question is why, and no one's really addressed that," Barnett said in an interview. According to his study, "The answer is it is us."

A claim made with no supporting evidence. More BS.

[abigailsmybaby]

Well global warming has taken a bit of hit so now it’s on to the water wars.

Al Gore will be selling hydrogen and/or oxygen credits beginning 2/1/2008.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

They are busy today! POGW ping

[Jeff Head]

...and the last nine years of drought had nothing to do with it I suppose? With more normal water years on the rise...two years ago and again this year, I expect we will see a lessening of the difficulties.

But, lots of people are exiting the left coast and moving into the intermountain west and that puts additional strain on existing infrastructure. One key ingredient is better planning and establishing more supply through developing more resource. More lakes for example.

[50sDad]

Solar flare activity is changing the planet. Science will provide the solutions...if politics hasn’t blinded the scientists to the possiblities.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Delta smelt decision, 2007

[RetiredArmy]

NOTE TO PRESIDENT MCCAIN: First thing to do upon getting into the White House is to sign executive order to immediately start culling the human population here in the USA, and get other countries to follow suit.

[xcamel]

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Oh Cripes..

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Me, I blame the water itself. Damn stuff just insinuates itself everywhere, splattering our crops, coming down from the skies, nay, even coursing through our bodies in an effort to infiltrate our precious bodily fluids! It runs out of the corners of our eyes when things are bad. Yeah, and when it gets rough for water, what does it do? It bloody well runs away and goes to the beach, just when you’d like it to stick around and take some personal responsibility. Then what, is that enough? No! It has to go all airy on us and takes off and flies around in the sky on a whim, as if life is just a breeze, you know? You can’t trust water. Never could.

[stylin19a]

not sure it’s evidence, but here;’s his documentation

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/1152538/DC1

[Digital Sniper]

Best way to conserve water would be to eradicate all the grass-growing in Southern California. It's time those folks started having rock gardens instead of dumping millions upon millions of gallons of water into the grass lawns that wouldn't otherwise grow in their desert area.

I'm surprised your the RINO governor of Kollyfornyuh hasn't mandated this already.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

****Human activity such as driving and powering air conditioners is responsible for up to 60 percent of changes contributing to dwindling water supplies in the arid and growing West, a new study finds. ****

I remember reading that back in the 1920s the San Juan River in the 4 corners area went dry because of no snow pack. I wonder what kind of driving and air conditioning people had at that time.

[SF Republican]

Best way to conserve water would be to eradicate all the grass-growing - Exactly, I have a small garden in San Francisco and planted 4-5 fruit trees (no jokes please) I was amazed at how much water it took just to keep them alive much less produce fruit. We pulled them out at the end of the summer and I am seeding native wildflowers.

[GSWarrior]

"The climate's changing in the West. We've known that. The question is why, and no one's really addressed that,"

Yeah, you never hear people talk about climate change these days.

[Who dat?]

Best way to conserve water would be to eradicate all the grass-growing in Southern California. It's time those folks started having rock gardens instead of dumping millions upon millions of gallons of water into the grass lawns that wouldn't otherwise grow in their desert area.

That’s what I’ve thought for a while.

Went through Palm Desert a couple of years ago and saw mile after mile of beautiful lush golf courses. Spraying water all over at 2:30pm. I bet half of it evaporated before it hit the ground. OTOH it was so hot and dry the grass would probably die if they didn’t keep it hosed down.

I’ve been interested in some of the new artificial grass that is out now. I understand Irvine has installed some (? somewhere) in the road median. I’ve been intending to check it out and see how good it looks though I may already drive by it.

Then again, that’s another hoop-jumping exercise with the HOA. They require 60% “softscape” minimum which basically means your yard has to have at least 60% shrubs/trees/grass of some sort - at least that's my understanding...

[JZelle]

Pass national health care now! We need to do something about all these damn people!

[3AngelaD]

When I read the headline on this I started laughing. Until it was settled in the 19th century, the American West was also called “the Great American Desert.” It has always been thus. Here’s where this is going: There is a group in Colorado who for more than a decade have been arguing that we, meaning humans, ought to abandon huge swathes of the West and allow it to return to native grass, like it was when the only inhabitants were Natives. They have not said yet, that I know of, where the current inhabitants ought to go.

[NVDave]

You can’t develop any storage lakes/reservoirs any more without running headlong into the environmentalists.

The solution is to build a border on the top of the Sierra Nevada, arm it with miniguns and grenade launchers and contain the problem where it is now.