Posted on 08/18/2021 12:16:47 PM PDT by Vendome
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has already issued an executive order calling on Californians to voluntarily cut their water use, and now the governor says mandatory restrictions could be coming soon.
At the moment, we’re doing voluntary,” he said at a public appearance Tuesday. “But if we enter into another year of drought — and as you know our water season starts Oct. 1 — we will have likely more to say by the end of September as we enter potentially the third year of this current drought.”
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Everyone in California, that is, except for So. California. Apparently, the people in Arizona are being told to do without water that flows through their state in order for So. California to continue using it.
Anything to keep drinking water in California’s rivers, right Mariner?
Gotta keep the fishing good!
Maybe you shouldn’t have Drained ALL of our Reservoirs last Year when they were FULL:!!!
Perfect. New restrictions will push people to vote for his recall.
Vote Yes on recall!
Vote for Larry Elders!
He wants to win the recall election, right? The man not only shoots himself in the foot, he aims.
What a feckless, incompetent manager. Pray for him, seriously.
Waiting for the mandatory voter separation, pro-Newsom voting on 14 September while, to avoid violence and traffic-jams, the anti-Newsom vote on 21 September. Remember, keep California Newsom!
Newsom needs to let people coming over the border to conserve water.
Yet again the call goes out for water conservation, while building houses on every square inch of land is unabated.
No electric, no water, good times.
GREAT comment!!!
With libtards in charge it’s just a matter of time before everything is rationed except for stupidity
“Anything to keep drinking water in California’s rivers, right Mariner?”
Anything to keep the allocation of available water to 50% flowing in the rivers.
Are you even aware of how available water is allocated in this state? Do you know the percentages?
The little people should suffer celebs filling their swimming pools.
California has senior water rights on the Colorado River they are senior to.Arizona and Nevada regardless of where it flows by. First right of capture from the 1800s in California case. The Colorado River compact of 1922 allocated the river formally under Federal law approved by Congress in 1924. Amendments and drought conditions were added in the 1990s by mutual agreement with the seven states who are party to the compact. Those drought measures expire in 2026 and if a new drought plan is not negotiated the Federal government will set it’s own limits due to the river treaty with Mexico and the interstate commerce clause the Fed’s have plenary power over the river but have left the compacts drought reductions up the the states in that compact. California doesn’t loose it’s senior rights temporarily until the level at lake mead is 1025 feet above MSL which is predicted to happen in 2024. Regardless of the drought the USA is under obligation to Mexico to provide 1.4 million acre feet of water per year at the USA Mexico border. The upper basin states are on the hook for 7.5 million plus half of the 1.4 international water. The lower basin states could make a compact call and force the upper basin states to release water to meet that 7.5 million acre feet the Fed’s would step in and force the release from Glen Canyon dam and also the upper four main lakes above Glen Canyon.
Read the history of the 1922 compact and it’s amendments set aside at least a few hours of time. The order of curtailment is Arizona, Nevada then California.
The silly part with California is the urban area’s use less than 20% of the water that is used by humans with only ten percent of that going to residential. Since 50% of all California water is reserved for environmental and natural run of the river use urban use is only 20% of half so 10% and only 5% of that is residential use even cutting off all residential use would only affect the overall water use by 5% of the total in the state. Agriculture is the.elephant in the room full on 80% of human water use in California is dumped on fields growing crops in a desert that have zero business being grown in a desert. Alfalfa being the most egregious example it takes four to.five feet of water per square foot per year to.grow.that grass in the desert it’s obscene the water waste. Alfalfa is California largest single water use 4 to 5 million acre feet per year just to that one crop. Want to affect and improve water supply outlaw that one crop and you have enough water for 3 more LA size basin with 25 million people each.
Urban use of water in California is less than 5% of the total water. 50% off the top goes to river, delta’s and environmental flows. The remaining 50% is 80% agriculture and 20% urban / industrial use. Of that 20% only 10% is residential the rest is commercial and industrial. So residential citizens or immigrants are 5% or less of the total. So tell the class how even doubling the number of people would cause a drastic impact. People have no idea how much water is wasted on fields in California it’s obscene. They could cut their water use by 70% or more just ask the Israelis to show them drip irrigation. That alone saves 50 to 80%. Then outlaw high water use crops in the freaking deserts , no rice for dang sure, no alfalfa EVER, no coastal hay nor bluegrass turf, almonds forget about it that’s 1900 gallons per lb.
https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/
All I know is that during any of California’s drought restrictions, So. California was green with filled swimming pools, and No. California was usually dry, brown. and dusty.
L.A. Bought up all the 1900s era water rights in the northern part of the state and then ships the water to Socal via the aquaduct system that was built specifically for that purpose. That doesn’t change the fact that urban use is only 20% of 50% of the total water present in California. The optics are there with green lawns and pools but in raw water numbers those are a tiny fraction of the water used the HUGE user is agriculture well over 80% of all human use is agriculture in California. The other 50% is set aside for where the water originally went to make rivers, be rivers and delta’s habitat for all manor of seafood delta’s are the nursery for sea coasts. The Fed gov controls that half of the water and always will California has to make do with the half it is approved to use.
If you want to post again about the differences in residential vs. business vs. environment vs. agricultural use, have at it. You can have the last word. I'm done arguing apples and oranges on the subject.
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