All of the Republicans live in the central valley. Well, most of them, anyway.
I overheard a guy in a restaurant carrying on about the water shortage. His plan was to build a pipeline from Washington and Oregon, like the disputed Canadian oil pipeline, and pipe water down to the valley.
I almost choked on my soup. The Washingtonians and Oregonians wouldn’t like that much.
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.
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.
But maybe that's changed since I got out of there...........
Back in the 80s people in Arkansas and Oklahoma were complaining because they were in a drought but Texas had plenty of water. And they were all talking about pumping water out of Texas. For the past few years Texas has been in a severe drought. Now what?
All of the farm states have irrigated so much that the water tables have dropped. The water in Eastern Arkansas, part of the Mississippi River aquifer, is undrinkable. And the water table gets lower every year. There is only so much water in our atmosphere. When we pump it out of the ground and it evaporates, it has to rain somewhere. But it doesn’t get back down into the ground from which it was pumped for millions of years.
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.
They have been talking about diverting the Columbia River for decades. Hey, how about some nuc plants off of Wierdwood?