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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
This is great news, now we need some locusts to show up...
” there is a fine haze that hangs over everything. Guess what? It’s dust.”
Time for the EPA to increase revenue by fining the farmers for now irrigating their fields to keep the dust down.
Oregon is also experiencing a dry spell (believe it or not). You are so right...Oregon people (not talking for our state government and what it might do) would DEFINITELY not want California to have any of our water. They have already taken over much of our state.
Kalifornia - the new “dust bowl”
the real facts are that the long term climate cycles for Califnornia are drier than it has been in recent decades
and, the southern San Joaquin Valley never was wet enough for the level of farming it has now, until FDR instiutted water distribution programs to bring the water south and use it for irrigated farming
now, as Kalifornia enters what might actually be a more “normal” drier weather cycle, every interest - residential, commercial and even EPA mandated “endangered species”, and the farmers, all are competing for scarcer water under allocation regulations written long ago & the farmers are only getting 40% of their allotments, while some, like some “endangered species habitats” are getting 100% of theirs
farmers have increased drilling for ground water, which also is getting scarcer, and the result is more occasions of subsidence and sink holes
unless Kalifornia institutes massive desalinization projects on its long coastline, there might not be solutions that will keep water usage at levels that would match all the current projected requirements
They have been talking about diverting the Columbia River for decades. Hey, how about some nuc plants off of Wierdwood?
It’s just that CA, NY, etc., are such huge liberal bastions, and draw distain, in general! We know there are true conservatives in those places, but they are still prime examples if liberalism. So unfortunately you get grouped with all the scum sucking parasites. I applaud conservatives who stay in the front lines!!
That area is my home but now I’m living in Texas. I wish I could be in that low Russian River with my metal detector, no telling what I could find. I do hope they get some rain soon.
And if NorCal didn’t have to send their water to SoCal no matter what, it would be a different story.
California is a beautiful place and there are a lot of good people that live there. The current politicians are awful, but don’t judge the whole State. freerepublic.com home is in CA.
My wife snd I are both 5th generation Southern Californians and we aren’t going to leave under any circumstances!!!
Well put. Thank you.
In the political sense, California is divided mostly east and west
with the west (coastal region) being the more heavily populated
liberal area. San Diego and Orange County maybe the exceptions.
The inland agricultural area (Central Valley and Sierra Nevada
Mtns) tend to be more politically conservative. This makes the
state somewhat of a miniature version of the nation with the
inland portion representing what could be called flyover country.
Obviously larger communities within the inland area tend to
lean more liberal but that tends to hold true throughout the
country, as well.
I thank you for you post and would state as I have before
that many California libs came from other places, perhaps
your own state included. I invite you to read post 72. Cheers.
That is a sobering article.
I know that in school we learned that the (formerly) lush Central Valley is technically a desert, receiving about 10 inches of rainfall per year. Butheavy irrigation from a sequence of dams and lakes in th Sierra Nevada changed all that.
Evesdropping on table conversation in various restaurants on my recent trip, I overheard several men talking about dumping row crops and planting “permanent” crops — nut and fruit orchards.
presently - Indiana...which is not the best...but it’s not the worst either...
I have read where most residents in California pay 60% of their earned income in taxes...is that true?
Here in Ohio, we have out own problems, as you may well know! ;-)
Kill the Hetch-Hetchy dam! Oh wait....
I’m told that the deep waters of Hetch Hetchy hide a valley as spectacular as Yosemite.
Under tons of silt, probably.
People want to drink water or look at a mountain? Their choice.
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