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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No, no, no.
You don’t understand.
“Green”, “high speed”, choo-choo trains are imperative for the state’s image above all else. Plus, it “creates jobs”!
Desalination plants are inherently evil boogie monsters and have a negative impact on the environment. They’ll suck up all kinds of cute and cuddly sea creatures in order to provide life giving water...so they’re “evil”.
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More California water goes to alfalfa farming, the bulk of it exported to Asia, than total residential use statewide.
What amazes me is no one confronts the freak with this.
The Enviros who support him now all conspire to say nothing about what he AND THEY said 40 years ago.
Unfortunately for them some of us DO remember, and we’re still here.
But the one group that COULD confront him with his outrageous hypocrisy - the Republican Party - won’t, because at least in this state, they ain’t so bright either.
My nightmare scenario is a reverse 1930s dust bowl where Californians flee to Oklahoma. We may need to put a wall around Kalifornia.
New signs to be posted in all hotel bathrooms:
“If it’s yellow, let it mellow; if its brown, flush it down.”
Of course showers will have five minute timers on the ‘HOT’ and ten minute timers on the ‘COLD’.
What a brave new world.
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This is pure BS!
We had a much worse drought in ‘76- ‘77 when even the wells were drying up.
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Don’t be concerned that you are not contributing to help CA’s illegal immigrants. I’m sure Moonbeam’s followers will find a way to tax your water. After all, you have lots of illegals to pay for in CA.
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Yup, like they had records that far back...
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Jerry is doing nothing to increase storage capacity.
He is trying to knock dams out to “save the salmon.”
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1200 years back, the Fondling Fathers created Californica.
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He is not even spending the money the Feds give the state for improving water quality... http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/20/california-failed-to-spend-455m-on-water-projects-epa-says/
Good point.
Since there will be no water for the agricultural centers of California - there will be no growing season - which means there will be no requirement for illegal workers.
Hmmmmmm ..??
California’s drought is only worse because of Democrats. Weather goes in cycles, in California the Democrats are a permanent destructive force.
In the early days of the CVPIA struggles on water and the environment, every solution was to take more water from the North. The Klamath River system (Trinity river tributary) was sending 80% of its water to the Central Valley.
It was discovered that the flows were needed in the Trinity and Klamath to perform functions such as gravel transport to renew salmon spawning beds and spring floods of edge habitat to provide transport for young smolts away from the strong mid-river currents. There are even studies as to how flows effect the proliferation of two parasites (C-Shasta and parvacapsula minibicornis) that have been killing mass numbers of juvenile fish.
A lawsuit by local tribes had the diversions south reduced to 50% of the rivers flow.
Sorry, but draining the north state is not the solution. In fact, NOAA fisheries is proposing to introduce endangered salmon above the Shasta Dam, which will require even more regulation on use and flow to provide for their local needs.
CA and the US may have to face that you can’t have both fish and farms/cities.
They’re the reason FOR the ‘draught’..
Consume ... but don’t appear on the census and don’t produce?
Ya think!?
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That’s because he can’t spend it on his giant train set.
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Let’s keep the ARTICHOKES and ASPARAGUS coming!!!
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The fish that they’re quibbling about, the Smelt, aren’t even native; they were introduced for bait!
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I remember that. All the lawns were dried up brown, far more than now. Followed by a deluge of rain some six years later or so, when there was flooding. We have cycles of drought and floods. What we're going through now is not the worst, just seems so because of bad political use of water and a massive influx of people. The floods will return (but the drought may get worse before then).
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