California’s Green Drought

The Wall Street Journal | April 5, 2015 | WSJ editors

[fifedom]

The liberals who run California have long purported that their green policies are a free (organic) lunch, but the bills are coming due. Lo, Governor Jerry Brown has mandated a 25% statewide reduction in water use. Consider this rationing a surcharge for decades of environmental excess.

[fifedom]

From the article: environmental regulations require that about 4.4 million acre-feet of water—enough to sustain 4.4 million families and irrigate one million acres of farmland—be diverted to ecological purposes. Even in dry years, hundreds of thousands of acre feet of runoff are flushed into San Francisco Bay to protect fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

[fifedom]

The full article is available at:
http://walters.house.gov/media-center/editorials/wall-street-journal-california-s-green-drought

[Fungi]

The problem is the moonbeam liberals that run the state. They are knowingly driving it into the ground. Ah but we'll have a choo choo train to nowhere that no one will use. I'm thinking give the state back to Mexico, less illegals and less drug trade across borders.

[Southern Magnolia]

Astro-turf the golf courses. That ought to fix it.

[sten]

hey californians... deport the 10m+ illegals and things will improve

if you actually want to plan for the future... then build water desalination plants

[henkster]

Give California to Mexico, and watch them turn it into an environmental paradise.

Just like Mexico.

[Joe Boucher]

To hell with all them Californians,
Gots to save the future of the Delta Smelt.
Dumbasses.

[al_c]

Here are the Top Ten Water Wasters in California:
1. Oliver Baines, Councilmember, Fresno City Council: 3,421 gallons per day (9.5 times the average amount used in California)
2. Mike Soubirous, Councilmember, Riverside City Council: 2,996 gallons per day (8.3 times the average amount used in California)
3. John Powell, Board President, Coachella Valley Water District: 1,808 gallons per day (5.01 times the average amount used in California)
4. Andrew Walcker, Riverside Utilities Boardmember: 1,799 gallons per day (4.98 times the average amount used in California)
5. Nick Ferguson, Riverside Utilities Boardmember: 1,791 gallons per day (4.96 times the average amount used in California)
6. Peter Nelson, Director, Coachella Valley Water District: 1,521 gallons per day (4.21 times the average amount used in California)
7. Randy Record, Metropolitan Water District, LA: 1,383 gallons per day (3.8 times the average amount used in California)
8. James Curatalo, Director, Cucamonga Valley Water District: 1,291 gallons per day (3.6 times the average amount used in California)
9. Franz De Klotz, Director, Coachella Valley Water District: 1,260 gallons per day (3.5 times the average amount used in California)
10. Paul Caprioglio, Fresno City Councilmember: 1,217 gallons per day (3.4 times the average amount used in California)

[newfreep]

Wherever islam liberalism BOTH islam and liberalism goes, death and destruction follow.

[SZonian]

"hey californians... deport the 10m+ illegals and things will improve"

Talk to the Feds, it was their judge who overturned Prop 187. It's been downhill ever since.

[Osage Orange]

Proposition 187

Choice Votes %

Referendum passed

Yes 5,063,537 58.93%

No 3,529,432 41.07%

And THE PEOPLE of CA were trumped by those that "govern".

One of the reasons I left SoCal...

[fifedom]

Talk to the Feds, it was their judge who overturned Prop 187. It’s been downhill ever since.

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That was a setup by the scumbag Pete Wilson. He got himself elected by claiming he supported 187 but then allowed a low-level Fed judge to delay the case for years instead of forcing her to act and then appealing it.

The judge, Mariana Pfaelzer, finally released her ruling against 187 after Wilson had left office and his RAT successor Gray Davis refused to appeal the ruling.

Wilson IMO never wanted the law since it was opposed by the usual businesses like construction, hotels, fast food, high tech who were major donors to him.

[fifedom]

To hell with all them Californians,
Gots to save the future of the Delta Smelt.

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There are 38 million people in CA and a lot of them are conservatives—maybe. But they sit at home and do not vote so the place is run by an unholy alliance of the envirowackos, government unions, and trial lawyers.

[Hardens Hollow]

“Talk to the Feds, it was their judge who overturned Prop 187. It’s been downhill ever since.”

Exactly. Almost a decade ago prop 187 passed overwhelmingly. If allowed to be implemented, it would’ve ended illegal immigration and fixed the country (not just the one state because other states would’ve followed suit).

One activist judge overturned the will of the people.

That said, I escaped Mexifornia and happy I did! Left at great expense and loss of income - but am thrilled to be around Americans and the English language again. There is an exodus of whites escaping mexifornia and planning to escape when they can, from people I’ve talked to about our escape. But if amnesty passes, the entire country will be the cesspool Mexifornia is - and there will be no where to escape to.

[Hardens Hollow]

“That was a setup by the scumbag Pete Wilson. He got himself elected by claiming he supported 187 but then allowed a low-level Fed judge to delay the case for years instead of forcing her to act and then appealing it.”

Once again, a RINO lies and stabs us in the back. No different from what Boohoo and his kind that were just elected to Congress did - ran as conservatives, and immediately turned around and voted as liberals.

When will we learn to quit trusting these turncoats?

[AlanGreenSpam]

I live in Calif and most of my neighbors are delusional liberals.

—Liberals tend to live in a world of limits.

—Capitalists live in a world of expanding limits via taking risks and thinking outside the box.

In Calif with our extreme drought, my neighbors are like Luddites, thinking that we must live within our water means without trying to develop new water sources (e.g. desalination, more wells, recharging aquifers in rainy years, etc.).

For more on Luddites and how they are not much different than environmental fascists today:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

[ChicagahAl]

But they sit at home and do not vote

But, but, but... Posters on FR keep telling us that staying at home is the principled thing to do, and doesn't affect election outcomes????

[5th MEB]

Wonder how many of them are Demonrats?

[5th MEB]

I am a Californian (native), I am a conservative, I have not missed an election since 1968. I have lost and been pissed off since Reagan left office.
BUT I REFUSE TO SURRENDER.

[Sergio]

And let us not forget the influence of unions. Any decrease in water used will be met with a rate increase so that the unionized utilities have the same revenues.

Only the little people need suffer.