The World's Fifth-Largest Food Supplier Is Almost Out Of Water
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.
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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!
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.
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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I have been keeping up with this and the last 150 years have been an anomaly for California. Most of the time it is dry.
If that is the case and history then what are the options for the populace of that state. There isn’t enough water resources to support them.
So look for land values to eventually fall as well as farmland prices to fall. The production of all those vegetables will have to move somewhere else.
“Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown.”
Whew! I was worried for a minute that we might have actually put the delta smelt environment at risk! Glad to see that the people have to suck it up so the smelt can go on unmolested by little things like water storage!
Carlsbad desalt opening in 1 year.