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.
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!
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...
Where’s the money for building three or four desalination plants along the coast? California has plenty of water!
Its in the Pacific Ocean.