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Water shortage ominous (Rationing may surface in Southland next year)
Daily News ^ | 9/6/07 | BY ALEX DOBUZINSKIS Staff Writer

Posted on 09/06/2007 12:29:05 PM PDT by BurbankKarl

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1 posted on 09/06/2007 12:29:06 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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2 posted on 09/06/2007 12:29:41 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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3 posted on 09/06/2007 12:30:29 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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An important article!

Carolyn

4 posted on 09/06/2007 12:30:37 PM PDT by CDHart ("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
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Real bad in NC too.


5 posted on 09/06/2007 12:30:54 PM PDT by SmoothTalker
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At the same time, they want to import another 30 million illegal aliens over the next couple of decades, and they keep building tracts of houses IN THE DESERT! JUST STOP!


6 posted on 09/06/2007 12:31:14 PM PDT by Argus
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The immediate trigger for concern arose from U.S. District Judge Oliver Wanger's ruling last week that to protect the delta smelt, a small fish threatened with extinction, water imports from Northern California must be cut by up to 30 percent.

LOL. You can't make this stuff up. No one would believe it.

7 posted on 09/06/2007 12:32:08 PM PDT by kabar
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U.S. District Judge Oliver Wanger's ruling last week that to protect the delta smelt

Wonder if this judge lives in the area under water restriction.

8 posted on 09/06/2007 12:32:28 PM PDT by wbill
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I wonder how many trains a day would be needed to bring in bottled water for 36 million people.


9 posted on 09/06/2007 12:33:34 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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So all the tax paying citizens are asked to cut back and then mandatory water restrictions will go into effect and they could get fined. Meanwhile, anyone else can use all the water they want and who’s to stop them?


10 posted on 09/06/2007 12:34:08 PM PDT by ukie55
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Water, lots of water, may be the only thing of value in the old industrialized cities of New England. Even with crippling taxes, burdensome regulations, expensive schools, and horrible winters for those who don’t like cold, the ONLY thing that MIGHT attract business/manufacturing back to the Northeast is plentiful clean water.


11 posted on 09/06/2007 12:34:28 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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I wonder how violent things would have to get before our Masters put us ahead of the fish.


12 posted on 09/06/2007 12:34:51 PM PDT by Wolfie
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Mule trains to comply with existing ecological concerns.


13 posted on 09/06/2007 12:35:30 PM PDT by kabar
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Good point. Also, if there is a potential reduction of 10% in the water supply, what would the removal of much of the illegal population in Southern California do to the demand?


14 posted on 09/06/2007 12:35:32 PM PDT by Truth29
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The City of LA announced a 10% voluntary cutback....and then the media reported nearly all the City Council and other department heads used up to 10 times the average city household in water.


15 posted on 09/06/2007 12:35:44 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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I think it's stupid to put guppies so high on our priority list.

That said, as a N. Cal resident, there is no bad reason to cut S. Cal off from our water. They live in a freaking desert. They should learn to like rock gardens, not lawns.

They can also fix the kind of crops they grow in the central valley. Currently farmers grow cotton (a water intensive crop) using federally subsidized water at the same time the federal government pays farmers in the south not to grow cotton. It is insane.

16 posted on 09/06/2007 12:36:38 PM PDT by Dinsdale
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Well, you guys damned up the 2nd Yosemite for your water...


17 posted on 09/06/2007 12:37:44 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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i’ve lived in socal for over 20 years.

i’ve never seen any water conservation. people waste water here.

i’m from denver where the water cops come out and ticket you if you water your lawn on the wrong day.

some of socal’s water comes from colorado.


18 posted on 09/06/2007 12:40:27 PM PDT by ken21
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Let me see, smelt or humans, humans or smelt? Gosh that is a tough one...

Seems to me it’s time to get serious about desalinization. Put in a nuclear power plant or five, and use them to produce clean drinking water for the southland. Who knows, we might even find something to do with the excess energy.


19 posted on 09/06/2007 12:40:34 PM PDT by DoughtyOne ((Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking its heritage.))
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That would be SF proper.

You couldn't pay me enough to live there (just like LA).

Given what happened to the Owens Valley I wouldn't throw any stones if I was you.

20 posted on 09/06/2007 12:43:15 PM PDT by Dinsdale
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