Posted on 08/18/2021 4:37:56 PM PDT by Humane1
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.
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Gavin was just waving his hands and boasting of tens of billions in budget surplus. With that money they could build some quick concrete dams in various places. They could divert some trillions from the fancy high speed train project.
“...... Liberals love to keep a Good Crisis alive to keep their control over the masses.”
Exactly. Your entire comment is right on.
In my corner of AZ, we’ve had about 5 or 6 inches of rain in the past 1.5 months...And the temps right now at 458 pm is 68 degrees...☺
Please describe the causes of that.
And a by product could be clean nuclear power
Is that going to be his slogan in the recall election:
“Vote for me. I cut off your water”
Good thing Newsom was not in charge of getting us out of Afghanistan. Oh, wait; he’s turning California into Afghanistan.
He better restrict the farmers they use 80% of all the water used in California to grow crops that have zero ecological reason to be grown in a desert. Urban use is 10% of total water use and that includes commercial and industrial water uses. Residential is half of that 10% so.5% So Newsom explain in real scientific terms how restricting 5% of the total is going to.accomplish diddly squat. If he was serious about the water use he would issue an EO outlawing the cultivating of any crop that uses more than two acre feet per year. That eliminates alfalfa the number on water hog that uses 4 to 5 feet per year of water over every square foot of ground. Rice nope not in the deserts dummies, almonds 1900 gal a lb uh nope. Just outlawing growing alfalfa which uses 4 to 5 million acre feet per year would allow 89.2 million people more to have 50 gallons per day well above what the WHO says in the recommended amounts for human consumption, washing, bathing and sanitary needs of 150 liters =39 US gallons.
Why 50 gal per day because that’s what my spouse, two dogs and 4500+ sqrt of home uses on avg per month per person. She takes baths on the regular at 50 gal a tub we do laundry nearly daily and the dishwasher runs every other day. We have a grey water system that waters our drought tolerant landscaping using bathwater,laundry water, and sink water. Our toilets flush with grey water as well. We don’t conserve actively the technology does the work for us I take 20+ min showers and let the sink run as I shave all that water is used again none is lost. The only water leaving the system is black water to the septic and that makes a nice green patch of the only grass around the property that’s irrigated aka the dogs potty area. Apartment dwellers should use 30 or less gallons per day they have no grass, and with HE laundry, HE diah washers, dual flush loos and low flow shower heads all required by code here the last time we lived in a townhouse type apartment we used less than 30 gal per person per day. Again 20 min showers were the norm even then it’s hard to waste that much water if you don’t purposely try too.
California has plenty of water they allow farmers to waste it on crops that should be illegal in a desert.
https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/
Been having great rain where I live in AZ too.
But not for celebrities, just the fodder for the government machine.
Are you sure? Several years ago, I read that farmers used 80% of all water consumed by humans (agriculture, industry, and domestic needs). But that humans only used 50% of the water.
The other 50% was for environmental needs. Not sure what that meant, but it likely includes draining the rivers into the sea to save "endangered" fish.
So farmers use 80% of human-consumed water, but only 40% of all water.
Wow, in California you will soon be mandated to stay at home without water or electricity.
Normally dry this time of year North Texas just got 6.5” in 48 hours on my back yard rain gauge I’m actually worried looking at the septic field it has standing water on it fortunately ours is an aerobic system with an outfall pump so it will keep emptying even into saturated ground.
This part of Texas is none dry from.June till September normally. We have a biannual monsoon season with dry summers and winters only spring and fall has appreciable rains usually.
CA is literally sitting on top of the largest ocean in the world—with the best high tech companies in the world—and they have a water shortage.
You can’t make up this stuff!
The link I posted shows exactly that. Click it. Humans only get half of the flows that’s the EPA and a Federal government policy in California. There is intrinsic value to run of river flows , for fish , wild life ect Newsom can only divy up the 50% that he is allowed too. Of that portion 80% is agriculture and only 10% is residential with the other 10% commercial and industrial water uses. California can’t take more water for human use they have to use what they are allotted.
What are the economics of large scale desalination? Just curious.
How about a mandatory exit, ahole!
This man is litteraly the dumbest politician ever to serve. He faces a recall in under 30 days and is still pushing ideas that will turn people off. Wonder how many votes they will manufacture to keep arrogant pizzer in office.
Here is one article with some numbers:
Bottom line—a lot cheaper than a bullet train to nowhere...
I don’t need to explain squat to you. I read and analyze. I suggest you do the same.
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