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California is letting billions of gallons of stormwater wash out to sea each year, report finds
Los Angeles Times via Yahoo ^ | 3/1/24 | Hayley Smith

Posted on 01/28/2025 11:01:43 AM PST by DallasBiff

For too long, California and other states have viewed stormwater as either a threat or an inconvenience — something to be whisked away from cities and communities as quickly as possible.

But as traditional sources of water face worsening strain from climate change, population growth, agriculture and other factors, those unused gallons of rainwater pouring across asphalt or down rain gutters are starting to be viewed as an untapped resource that can help close the widening gap between supply and demand.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; rainwater; water; wildfires
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I know from almost a year ago and The LA Times reported it, but the fires in the Palisades could have used the additional water.

I feel bad for the victims of the fires, but they the residents voted for the incompetence.

1 posted on 01/28/2025 11:01:43 AM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Thought that runoff water was full of poop.


2 posted on 01/28/2025 11:03:56 AM PST by oldasrocks
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To: DallasBiff

a billion here, a billion there- it starts to add up


3 posted on 01/28/2025 11:05:10 AM PST by Strict9
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To: DallasBiff

were letting

Trump!


4 posted on 01/28/2025 11:05:22 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: DallasBiff

People who elect incompetents to office aren’t victims.

They’re accomplices.

L


5 posted on 01/28/2025 11:05:34 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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“but they the residents voted for the incompetence”

Hard not to notice that.


6 posted on 01/28/2025 11:06:33 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: DallasBiff

The environmental idiots are trying to get their rising shorelines propaganda gig going.


7 posted on 01/28/2025 11:06:50 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Democrats are the greatest threat to America.)
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To: DallasBiff

globull warming crowd dontchaknow. Too much water is bad.


8 posted on 01/28/2025 11:16:49 AM PST by Qwapisking (Q: know the difference between a petulant 6 y.o. and a liberal? A:age. L.Star )
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Mayor Bass planned on $500,000 salaried lesbians, DEI, pronouns,
and looking at fires through an “equity lens” would put out fires.

That didnt work out.

Now they’re trying water.


9 posted on 01/28/2025 11:18:17 AM PST by Liz ((This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. ))
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To: DallasBiff

what ?

is this a calif election/voter fraud denier reunion thread ?

looks like it.

spit.

any of you actually live here in calif ?

nevermind
dgas if you do or not /-)


10 posted on 01/28/2025 11:20:16 AM PST by cuz1961
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is this a calif election/voter fraud denier reunion thread

Well didn't LA County vote overwhelmingly for democrats.

11 posted on 01/28/2025 11:26:40 AM PST by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh; Lurker; DallasBiff

“but they the residents voted for the incompetence”

Hard not to notice that.
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Yeah, I mentioned that to a bunch of Californians on FB who had lost a house of worship and were bemoaning that fact, and that really created a $hitstorm. I repeatedly pointed out bad decisions by pols that they voted for, including hiring decisions based on irrelevant (to fire fighting and prevention), and then they attacked me as if I had set the fires. Good, you only get flak when you’re over the target, which I clearly was. Got called every name in the book, and responded with “hey, I am just trying to help you morons avoid a repeat of this disaster the next time a fire starts - which it WILL - but y’all are to stuck on stupid to understand that.”

The stupid, it burns (literally, in this case).


12 posted on 01/28/2025 11:30:33 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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actions = consequences

Some people refuse to see the connection.


13 posted on 01/28/2025 11:34:05 AM PST by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: DallasBiff

They should build the tunnel.


14 posted on 01/28/2025 11:37:40 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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“actions = consequences

Some people refuse to see the connection.“
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I told them that, but apparently their parents never did. Hopefully, they will actual think this through before long and act accordingly so as to reduce the damage from future, inevitable, fires…but these are California Leftists, I am not going to hold my breath waiting for them to act in a logical manner.


15 posted on 01/28/2025 11:38:50 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: DallasBiff

la county electric voting machines did.

do you narrative control guys get swag bags for showing up ?

;-)


16 posted on 01/28/2025 11:38:52 AM PST by cuz1961
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To: TornadoAlley3

There are plenty of places in southern California for artificial lakes, that may come and go, for saving the rain water runoff, for various uses. But most water runoff controls are intent on getting rid of the water, not saving any of it.


17 posted on 01/28/2025 11:44:54 AM PST by Wuli
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do you narrative control guys get swag bags for showing up

I understand that, but it's the LA County liberals who let it happen(voter fraud) and they got the consequences.(fires, etc)

18 posted on 01/28/2025 11:48:02 AM PST by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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California is letting water flow out to sea?

OK, who let the LA Times in on that little secret. /s


19 posted on 01/28/2025 12:19:26 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: DallasBiff

It’s trillions. One inch or rain over one square mile is about 17.5 million gallons. During the heavy winter two years ago, some reporting stations in the Sierra registered more than 800 inches of snow. At a rule of thumb of one inch of water for every 10 inches of snow, that’s about 1.4 billion gallons over ever secure mile receiving that amount of precipitation


20 posted on 01/28/2025 12:30:23 PM PST by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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