Yeah but, no matter what haters are gonna hate:
What they need is prune juice because they're so full of SHEET!
/johnny
Socialism
California doing something smart? you’ve got to be joking.
Also, you can turn the Arabian peninsula into a rain forest and they’d still be the same old assholes.
My first thought also. But we have the EPA....Enviro Police Activists
You can look for those plants to become terrorist targets.
Of course, the stupid Moslems would rather drink water re-cycled through their kidneys than recognize the treasure they have in their midst of a technologically advanced, well-organized society in their midst. Like Obama, Holder and their ilk, nursing their grievances counts for so much more than progress.
We’re building a bullet train from FR to Bakersfield instead.
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Strange, but this story brought to mind Frank Herbert’s “Dune.”
I thought California was doing this? I know they took sewer water and cleaned it up and made it “drinkable”....in El Cajon in the 1960’s (it was awful.)
I remember reading about or seeing a timeline of the historical climate change in this area and how it affected the ancient biblical history. Interesting that they now have natural gas and desalination. I hope that these two things plus hopefully more independence of this country from foreign oil will see a way out of the 66 year old crisis in this area. Actually, it’s been a crisis longer than that but that is the age of Israel.
The Kinneret’s (sea of galilee) water level.
http://www.savethekinneret.com/
Due to lack of rain not much of a climb. I was really hoping they’d get enough rain so the water level would top Deganya Dam this year.
Pray for more rain for Israel.
Wellllll, the EPA might have something to do with it.
Desalination has turned Israel’s water shortage into a surplus. Why hasn’t California done the same thing?
You know the simple one word problem—enviros
Here are some of their objections:
1. producing natural gas requires fracking
2. burning the gas produces CO2
3. building plants on the coast threatens their view of the ocean
4. some shrimp or fishies might be sucked into the plants and threaten them with extinction.
5. The limo liberals in places like Marin county use water shortages to limit housing development and keep the riffraff out
Because Moon Beam Brown needs to get the high speed rail system up and going remember when you get in office you have to pay back your backers.
The mafia never died it just moved up the ladder and now it’s at the top.
“Desalination has turned Israel’s water shortage into a surplus. Why hasn’t California done the same thing? “
Pfffft. Emulate plucky, intensely clever, and successful people living in a desert? Why do that when it’s easier to steal money from people who feel guilty for having the good fortune to have more than they need, using the power of government, raking off plenty in the process and helping perpetuate your term in office?
The plant in Carlsbad will open in 2016 and provide up to 10% of the county’s water. So we need a few more, as does the rest of the state. San Diego county is the driest along the coast and we have little of our own supply.
It has been 14 years since they sought approval, the private company and the city. They got all the permits, including coastal commission. It took 10 years; then the same groups which opposed the plant during the administrative process tried to stop it in court.
Instead of the judge deferring to the 10 years of administrative processes, he had a hearing and it stung it out another 2 years.
We are literally paralyzed in California. No new freeways, no tracking, no new power plants; so if someone builds a desal plant, it’s a miracle. But they need to get started.
“Why hasn’t California done the same thing? “
Maybe it would have been a good idea, but Fukushima has put an end to that.
There likely won’t be much surfing in California once people start hearing about this.
Who wants to save California?