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Way past time for desalination plants up and down the coast!
1 posted on 08/19/2008 1:22:18 PM PDT by TheDon
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To: TheDon

Bingo.


2 posted on 08/19/2008 1:24:33 PM PDT by Crimson Elephant
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To: TheDon

So how many SC golf courses and lawns are getting watered every day?


3 posted on 08/19/2008 1:26:26 PM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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Reservoir levels plummet

California sucks?

4 posted on 08/19/2008 1:29:46 PM PDT by Hazwaste (Vote! Vote for the conservative local, state, and national candidates of your choice, but VOTE!)
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To: TheDon

it’s not cost effective, is it?


5 posted on 08/19/2008 1:32:15 PM PDT by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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To: TheDon

We have never had enough water that we could share it with millions.


7 posted on 08/19/2008 1:33:57 PM PDT by Linden1209
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Southern California is naturally a desert and must take water from other areas - and the population of Southern California continually grows and uses more and more water.


9 posted on 08/19/2008 1:34:23 PM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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Way past time for desalination plants up and down the coast!

Maybe one of these days our leaders will get a clue. Like maybe when it finally occurs to them to allow offshore drilling too. ;-)

11 posted on 08/19/2008 1:39:04 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (Choosing between McInsane and Obamapalooza is like choosing to ingest a slow or fast-acting poison.)
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No doubt this government and our self representatives will come to the conclusion that allowing millions more illegal aliens into the U.S. will be the solution to this matter.


13 posted on 08/19/2008 1:41:55 PM PDT by dragnet2
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There are too many people in SoCal and they need to stop stealing the water from the north, or build their own reservoirs.


14 posted on 08/19/2008 1:43:27 PM PDT by rivercat
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I’m sure having 500,000 to 1,000,000 illegals doesn’t help the situation. But we don’t want to mention that because it is “racist”.


15 posted on 08/19/2008 1:44:49 PM PDT by CarWashMan
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It’s Denver, they are stealing all the West Slope Water for the Democratic Convention!


16 posted on 08/19/2008 1:46:44 PM PDT by Steamburg (Your wallet speaks the only language most politicians understand.)
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If the crops all die, there won’t be as many jobs that Americans won’t do. Problem solved. A big desert returns to being a big desert.


18 posted on 08/19/2008 1:48:26 PM PDT by Steamburg (Your wallet speaks the only language most politicians understand.)
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As usual this is a government caused problem.
Desalination -- the removal of salt from salt water -- would be the ultimate solution to water woes -- if it can be done cheaply enough. That's a big if: "The best estimates are $2 to $2.50 per ton for desalination," says de Villiers. "That not really that far from the real cost of delivering water from the Colorado River, but California's water is so heavily subsidized that they are paying 10 cents per ton when the real cost is closer to $2.50 per ton."

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Water subsidies are a fact of life in the western United States. According to de Villiers, they amount to $500 per acre. He alleges that "70 percent of the farmers' profits in California's Central Valley -- which is supposed to be the richest farmland in the world -- came directly through taxpayer subsidization."

http://waterindustry.org/Water-Facts/water-costs-8.htm
21 posted on 08/19/2008 1:52:28 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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Yeah but those smelt fishes are doing fine now.

Isn’t that why they didn’t fill some of the reservoirs up as much as they could? it was hurting smelt???


22 posted on 08/19/2008 1:57:18 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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They’ve been talking about desalinaiton for decades. They need to quit talking, and start building.


35 posted on 08/19/2008 2:18:13 PM PDT by grundle
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Way past time for desalination plants up and down the coast!
nuclear/ desalinization plants

The lefties can try to do without juice, but thirst will demand water


46 posted on 08/19/2008 2:51:48 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Conservation? Let the NE Yankees freeze.... in the dark)
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Meanwhile, the Salt River Project reservoirs serving the Phoenix Metropolitan area are very near full to capacity:


48 posted on 08/19/2008 2:56:25 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (A community in Chicago is missing an organizer.)
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Yes, whatever we do don’t build Nuclear Desalinization plants off the coast in Southern CA, wouldn’t want to actually have enough water for the idiots that inhabit LA and the surrounding areas. I get so sick of the BS leftists put out and the idiots that swallow their BS.


49 posted on 08/19/2008 3:01:04 PM PDT by calex59
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Wait until Colorado starts asking for its share of the Colorado River...as long as McCain keeps his paws off of the Compact.

Colorado will go ballistic if the feds start messing with the water situation in the West.


53 posted on 08/19/2008 3:16:50 PM PDT by wireplay
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If the state of California had not caved to the demands of "environmentalists" to flush a massive surplus of water "for the fishies", there wouldn't be a problem. Government negligence, incompetence and lack of spine are at the root of the problem.

The calls for rationing and conservation will do little to offset the continuous influx of invaders across the Mexican border. The additional demand they place upon resources will rapidly outstrip conservation efforts.

54 posted on 08/19/2008 3:31:35 PM PDT by Myrddin
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