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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Not from the Owens Valley to water the LA Freeway Interchanges.
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?
Well, there is plenty of seawater to desalinate and plenty of sunshine to help.
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.
Many live there in CA because they hate rain or snow.
Guess where drinking water comes from, even underground water.
The owner of this site lives in California.
Where do you live?
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.
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.
Sounds like a self-inflicted ‘Dust Bowl’
True, and desalinization can be done in any of several ways.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
Problem is that the socialist leeches will follow the producer class of people where ever they go.Look what they did to Colorado.
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.
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.
Yuma AZ is the lettuce capital of the world. No drought here. Its warm with a bumper crop of lettuce.
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