Posted on 02/09/2014 10:01:57 AM PST by Texas Eagle
As everyone knows, California is entering into what is arguably the driest year in decades and this could just be the start. Over half a century ago, in 1960 California voters passed the Burns-Porter Act, formally known as the the California Water Resources Development Bond Act, which resulted in the construction of the nation's largest state-built water and power development and distribution system, the state water project.
Since then, California's population has more than doubled. Water demands for urban use, environmental mitigation and agriculture have placed increasing demands on a diminishing water supply. The fact is, our water supply system was built to meet the demands of 50 years ago and policy makers have failed to keep pace with this demand. Now we are in a drought and in a water crisis. That is why I have proposed Assembly Bill 1445 the California Water Infrastructure Act of 2014. My legislation would:
(Excerpt) Read more at morewatercalifornia.com ...
Ha! Good luck with building any kind of water storage project in California. By the time all the Environmental Impact Studies are reviewed, the whole state will have dried up and blown away. The best you can hope for is mandatory water rationing.
grow monsoon crops in a desert and you may run short of water
The Watermelons got to their present state of power little by little.
Now, look. They are perfectly okay with windmills chopping up birds regardless of whether or not they are on the endangered species list.
THEY are the ones who are giving ground now. Obviously it's going to be a tough fight when you are dealing with a RAT Assembly, Senate and Governorship.
But, dammit!, let's start fighting.
Nothing says you’re a liberal better than a Volvo in the garage, lush dicondra lawn, a nice backyard swimming pool and an air-conditioned split-level in the California desert . . . and then complaining about farmers using all the water!
Oldplayer
Many, many people moved to California during the Dust Bowl days to escape severe drought.
At the very least, this is irony.
Good start, but need to add dams on the Yuba watershed and also Auburn!
Sheer idiocy.
I took my wife and daughter on a trip up the central valley after trying for years to explain the awful policies of the Democrat dominated state government. I didn’t tell them my plan for the trip, simply drove along the highway letting them look out the window. Hours of driving through parched fields, what looked like great farmland just sitting there dying for water.
There was no need for me to say anything; the farmers along the corridor spoke for themselves, with billboard after billboard lamenting the lack of water, regulations, and political actions. Worst was along the corridor that the ‘high speed rail project’ was to take; not one viable farm along the route.
My wife is a fan of farmer stands, and we stopped at a few of them along the trip, and she could see the most dramatic results of these awful policies. Where normally she would be buying a wide variety of produce, she left empty handed. It was a great trip of self discovery; nothing helps the conservative movement more than letting people actually see the results of liberal ideology.
A map of farms in the central valley overlaid with a map of donations to liberal causes would be far more useful to changing the landscape of politics in the state than the building of more reservoirs which will never be allowed to be filled. A map of levees with reinforcement dates along with liberal contributions also would be greatly educational.
I know this legislation is about as much as we can get at this point, and even then it is reaching far enough to encounter considerable liberal resistance. But I no longer welcome ‘best we can do.’ Best we can do resulted in this disaster, and empowered the liberals to reach even further. Unfortunately, the best strategy at this point is ‘look at what they have done, we have to fundamentally change if we want to fix this.’
Band aids won’t help us anymore, we need a full trauma team.
California does not have a water shortage. California does have a salt surplus.
BUILD IT! DAMMIT!!!
Small coastal nuclear power plants and desalinization...
Sell the power, and sell the fresh water.
It may cost more, but as a percentage of the total water provided, it doesn’t need to mean that water will double in cost. If you get 25% of your water from desalinization, the higher cost is spread across the 100%.
If it costs double to deliver the 25%, the cost of all water would only go up 25%. That 25% could relive a lot of pressure on our water supply needs. It would also make it possible to leave more of it in the lakes in Northern California.
We should also support water collection as a way of reducing the needs of piped in water during periods when we do get rain. If we save millions of acre feet of water needed during periods around the wet season, that would leave more water from reservoirs for the drier periods of the year.
If some of this cost could be covered by the sale of the power from the nuclear plant, it could become quite cost effective.
Why aren’t our leaders working on this?
Part of the problem is the “environmental mitigation”. Stop pouring water into the ocean, and you’ll have enough for people.
Sending all the illegals home who are using our water illegally nationwide would be a good start at water conservation...
You are right on the money, rather than building new storage, the Enviro nutts want to remove existing storage such as the Hetch Hetchy in Yosemite, and the crazy thing about it is there is considerable support for it.
Plus, the salt can be sold to cold-weather states for winter!
There you go...
Yep. The eco-libs have been trying to get the O'Shaughnessy Dam removed from Yosemite in California that would destroy the Hetch-Hetchy reservoir. It just happens to supply water and electricity to the San Francisco metro region. All because they want the valley to look pretty for the animals. Good luck getting water if they take out that dam, because they frown on water bottles. And solar just ain't gonna cut it for keeping the lights on.
Where’s the money for building three or four desalination plants along the coast? California has plenty of water!
Its in the Pacific Ocean.
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