Posted on 06/30/2015 4:09:06 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Domestic and agricultural wells are going dry all over Central California, especially in the corridors south of Fresno to the Grapevine, along the Sierra Nevada foothills, and out west of the 99 Freeway — anywhere there is not a deep aquifer. I have never seen anything quite like this water madness in 60 years, as families scrimp and borrow to drill, or simply move to town to take advantage of municipal wells. I have developed a habit as I drive to work to Stanford of counting the abandoned homes I see west of Highway 41 (sort of like counting those who sit in Wal-Mart not to shop, but to enjoy the air conditioning they cannot afford). The number increases each week. Retired couples — or families in general — apparently do not have tens of thousands of dollars to drill a deeper well, especially given the uncertainty of how fast the dropping water table will soon make their investment superfluous. Without water, there is nothing.
Some dry farmland is turning into vacant parcels. Many rural homes must have potable water trucked in. Hispanics who recently immigrated to California and bought or rented older homes with shallow wells in these areas of the valley countryside have no money to drill deeper $30,000 domestic wells. Nor do many poor whites, who often live in isolated communities in the foothills. Who has the capital to gamble on finding scarce water in dicey granite seams? There is no water in the reservoirs left to recharge the water table or to fill canals that can be tapped for domestic use.
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Hahaha, no, it’s the decent American folk that are leaving, I imagine. New illegals are always coming in and will keep coming unless Cali becomes worse than Mexico, in which case they’ll go to other border states instead.
Bienvienidos A Tejas. Ooops. I mean Welcome to Texas.
The state has not spent a dime on desalinization plants. All the money is being spent on a bullet train to nowhere. $10,000 per family. There are 13 million families in California. Most people here still do not believe we are running out of water. When the water stops flowing, things will happen quickly. Imagine the Beverly Hillbillies happening in the reverse. Traffic jams of families on the freeways heading out of the state with everything we can carry stuffed into the car. We will just leave our homes behind. Cannot live here without water. Imagine millions of extreme, left wing, thirsty Californians showing up in cities across Texas and setting up fefugee camps on every vacant lot. Texans will feed them and provide them with water and other necessites. Then the first election will happen. That will be the end of Texas as you know it.
The third choice is drinking unprocessed waste water.
Maybe they'll get the EPA the FDA and the Dept. of Agriculture to tell us it's a healthful alternative.
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And due to the water restrictions, many municipal sewer systems are starting to decay at a rapid pace due to Hydrogen sulfide buildup.
Another high paying job created:
The Oakland A’s have announced the signing of first-round draft pick Richie Martin. Oakland’s first pick came with a $2,214,000 salary slot allocation.
LOL!
Tom Joad and all his Commie friends!
And all those people who say America is doing so great in the news. Makes me think that they will try to not report droughts and thirst to say that it’s well and that the political leaders in our nation and California are such great people.
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LOL!
Tom Joad and all his Commie friends!
For sure.
Kind of stands Fonda's socialist utopian The Grapes of Wrath on its head.
Thanks, no. The commies who came here and
ruined this state can go back to where they
came from and we can get our state back. Or,
maybe the commies can head to Alaska which
seems to be one of the current “flavors of
the month” like California used to be (to our
detriment).
I was reading recently what a phony Steinbeck was.
Most of “Travels with Charlie” was made up.
Pretty scattered essay for David.
The key to California’s water shortage is that water is not allocated by value.
It’s allocated by politics.
The environmentalists and Indians’ water is free, San Francisco and LA do not have to bid for their water.
Capitalism would solve the shortage in a few months.
But, instead, there will be more politicization, more waste.
That is absolutely incorrect. They are building one in Carlsbad. I’ve seen it. San Diego is has one under construction for $1 billion + dollars. They are under construction all over the place.
SO yeah there are a ton of Lib problems here (and yeah a ton of idiots don’t think we are running out), but they are absolutely building these desalinization plants.
I predict that the enviroweenies will sue to stop the desalinization plants from operating as they will dump salt and other things culled from the seawater back into the sea.
Time for state laws to read, “You must be a state citizen for a minimum of 10 years before you can run for elected office.”
Keep the libs out.
And San Franciscans still want to tear down the Hetch Hetchy dam and drain the reservoir, even though it is their main water supply.
Or reduce the "surplus population," which seems to be their goal.
“California may suffer a net population loss soon, which is astonishing.”
That’s our secret weapon for sending our massive third world population to the rest of the country.
SoCal is a coastal desert. It doesn’t look like one because we water the landscape. But soon it will be a barren landscape of stunted chaparral.
Lower population...less voting power! Formerly democrat electoral votes moving to Texas, Arizona and other red states? WIN!
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