The World's Fifth-Largest Food Supplier Is Almost Out Of Water
Posted on 03/23/2015 10:34:56 AM PDT by blam
Eric Holthaus
March 22, 2015
As California limps through another nearly rain-free rainy season, the state is taking increasingly bold action to save water.
On Tuesday, the California state government imposed new mandatory restrictions on lawn watering and incentives to limit water use in hotels and restaurants as part of its latest emergency drought regulations. On Thursday, California Gov. Jerry Brown announced a $1 billion plan to support water projects statewide and speed aid to hard-hit communities already dealing with shortages.
Last month federal water managers announced a "zero allocation" of agricultural water to a key state canal system for the second year in a row, essentially transforming thousands of acres of California farmland into dust.
This week's moves come after the state has fallen behind targets to increase water efficiency in 2015 amid the state's worst drought in 1,200 years.
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May all those illegals there in California dry up and become parched!
Maybe the billions dollars allocated to the crazy train could be diverted to desalinization.
Worse than up to 1200 years ago.
It was back in the 70’s that Jerry Brown stopped much of the future plans of a state water system to bring water from the more moist north to the arid south. Isn’t it amazing that now he sees a need so he is going to spend a billion bucks to make it happen.
Wow...the wages of sin Jerry will destroy a once great state. As a Native son I think I can say that i made a great decision when I moved away from California in 1997 never to return again to live.
Freegards
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Jerry Brown’s father built the reservoirs and aquaducts when the state had 20 million people. Today it has 40 million. Jerry needs to double the state’s storage capacity - his father would have.
CA has been a state for 1,200 years?
And the megadrought displays how well our political class looks out for Americans, by immigrating zillions from all over the globe and thereby making sure that our limited water will be all that more limited.
Well done, Treason Lobby. Pass that amnesty and increase the ceiling on legals, we need to be more crowded and thirsty in our coastal desert.
Mega-Drought! See it this weekend on SyFy, right after DinoShark and Ice Spiders!
The Delta Tunnel project is actually going to cost over $100 BILLION dollars - not just a mere one billion.
PLAN is a four letter word
I guess they are figuring in the modern capability of handling water.
Ask the Israelis what to do. California would soon be a miracle.
Their newest plant (Sorek) is producing 627,000 cubic meters of water daily. By 2016, when additional plants will be running, some 50 percent of the country’s water is expected to come from desalination.
They're producing it for 58 U.S. cents per cubic meter (1,000 liters, or about what one person in Israel uses per week). It only cost $500 million, which came from private investment, and will be recouped in something like 5 years. California could have done that years ago. But no.
Instead, California authorized the issuance of US $9.95 billion in bonds for the High Speed Rail project which is never going to pay for itself. They could have built 18 major water-desalinization plants for that.
Geez, we should give California to Israel.
Brown doesn’t want to talk about the 20 million new “residents” since they virtually all come from Mexico.
Mustn’t ever say anything bad about Sacred People of Color.
Even though a lot of them are white Spaniards.
But Jerry had no such problem criticizing “Overpopulation” back in the 70’s when it was all white people of Anglo-Saxon stock. He harangued people endlessly about “replacement children only”, have an Abortion, not a child, and let’s all be Homos cuz no kids will come out of that!
Population Control. Jerry was all for it before he was against it....but that’s because it’s only for White people.
Brown is a dimwitted Bigot. Nothing more. He’s still acting out his Jesuit grudge against the Protestant America he was brought up to hate.
If he actually had any brains or any real principles about environmentalism he would have worked overtime to prevent the mass immigration into California that happened starting from his first term in 1976.
The fact that he didn’t shows he has neither brains nor principles, just his bottomless contempt and bitterness towards the Americans.
The crops part is what concerns me. They supply a lot of the country’s food. Fortunately, where I now live we have an abundance of water and gardens. We still have quite a bit of home canned stuff from last year. But I bought a place with two streams and a natural well on it just in case.
“Geez, we should give California to Israel. “
Instead we gave California to Mexico and other parts of the 3rd world. Soon, the California drought won’t affect any Americans because none will be left in the state.
well said
Building the aqueducts started a long time before Pat Brown.
It was Mulholland who said “there it is - take it” when the first drop came from the Owens Valley.
I have standing water and cat-tails growing in my yard. I'm okay too.
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