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17 California communities running out of water
Washington Post ^ | 1-29-14

Posted on 01/29/2014 3:28:30 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Seventeen rural communities in drought-stricken California are in danger of running out of water within four months, according to a list compiled by state officials.

Wells are running dry or reservoirs are nearly empty in some communities. Others have long-running problems that predate the drought.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: boxer; califdrought; desalinate; desalination; drought; feinstein; pelosi; snaildarter; watershortage
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Not from the Owens Valley to water the LA Freeway Interchanges.


21 posted on 01/29/2014 3:41:59 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Cobra64

I’m sure there are conservatives - hard working people - but to pay all those taxes to that govt...I wouldn’t do it - that state takes so much away from it’s residents - it’s pathetic...there are certain states i could work and live in - but chose not to due to their politics...if California was a majority of conservatives...why is it that it is in the mess that it is?


22 posted on 01/29/2014 3:43:14 PM PST by BCW (Salva reipublicae)
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To: familyop

Well, there is plenty of seawater to desalinate and plenty of sunshine to help.


23 posted on 01/29/2014 3:43:18 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I am sorry to hear of this drought, but this story caught me on a day when I want government to cut 2 trillion from the budget, so, you know.


24 posted on 01/29/2014 3:44:00 PM PST by lurk
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Many live there in CA because they hate rain or snow.

Guess where drinking water comes from, even underground water.


25 posted on 01/29/2014 3:45:07 PM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'Any path to US citizenship for illegals HERE is a special path to it ')
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To: BCW

The owner of this site lives in California.


26 posted on 01/29/2014 3:47:55 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: BCW

Where do you live?


27 posted on 01/29/2014 3:49:13 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Paladin2

Southern California takes water from the mountains of Northern California, where there is very little snow this winter. Most of Los Angeles’ water comes from the snowmelt in the High Sierra.


28 posted on 01/29/2014 3:51:39 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
All of the Republicans live in the central valley. Well, most of them, anyway.

That is a crock. Almost of the north state is solid red. The Mountain counties are Red counties too. The Sacramento valley always votes conservative. You may want to do a little more research before you make such stupid claims.

29 posted on 01/29/2014 3:52:35 PM PST by oldenuff2no
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Sounds like a self-inflicted ‘Dust Bowl’


30 posted on 01/29/2014 3:53:00 PM PST by CMailBag
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To: Paladin2

True, and desalinization can be done in any of several ways.


31 posted on 01/29/2014 3:54:48 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

It’s my understanding that the government of CA plans to divert water from the farming areas to the urban areas. They expect that the vegetables that California usually produces will have to be replaced by imports. This seems to me to be a tragically unsound plan, but I don’t intend to comply by buying imports. Instead, I will do my best to grow my own.


32 posted on 01/29/2014 3:54:53 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: spawn44
It’s dry out here but we’re not running out of water.

Speak for yourself please. There are a lot of people on private wells. Moreover, it is the small rural communities, usually with conservative populations, that are suffering the most. Over the last 12 months, the amount of rainfall here in the mountains of the Central Coast (with a mean rainfall over 40"), is about half of what is usual for the Sinai Desert.

33 posted on 01/29/2014 3:55:27 PM PST by Carry_Okie (0-Care IS Medicaid; they'll pull a sheet over your head and take everything you own to pay for it.)
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To: oldenuff2no
Almost of the north state is solid red.

San Francisco?

Silicon Valley?

Sonoma?

And I remember driving up the coast to the Oregon border and seeing mostly hippies once they killed the logging industry.

34 posted on 01/29/2014 3:56:19 PM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: gundog

“That talk’s been around awhile. Tap the Columbia near the mouth and pipe it to SoCal. The tales of poor little Angelinos and their dried up swimming pools didn’t win much favor up here.”

At one time there was a credible proposal to take water from the Great Lakes. Canada put a stop to that.


35 posted on 01/29/2014 3:57:21 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: BCW

Problem is that the socialist leeches will follow the producer class of people where ever they go.Look what they did to Colorado.


36 posted on 01/29/2014 3:59:29 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: oldenuff2no
. Almost of the north state is solid red. The Mountain counties are Red counties too. The Sacramento valley always votes conservative. You may want to do a little more research before you make such stupid claims.

Correct, conservative on the eastern slopes of the Sierra too, the area that most Californian's living to the west of the mountains think is part of Nevada.

37 posted on 01/29/2014 3:59:49 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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To: afraidfortherepublic; All

In their tunnel-vision delirium to win votes from illegal immigrants to maintain control the government (imo), such immigrants needing water to drink like everybody else, Democratic state lawmakers have probably completely overlooked that the state’s water resources need to be expanded accordingly.


38 posted on 01/29/2014 4:01:18 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: trisham

Yuma AZ is the lettuce capital of the world. No drought here. Its warm with a bumper crop of lettuce.


39 posted on 01/29/2014 4:09:25 PM PST by pfflier
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To: sickoflibs
Guess where drinking water comes from, even underground water.

"Forget it Jake. It's Chinatown."

FMCDH(BITS)

40 posted on 01/29/2014 4:11:41 PM PST by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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