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Israel has been using large scale desalination for a long time, and has solved its water shortages. California has chosen to avoid doing this, and is now suffering the consequences.
1 posted on 08/02/2014 9:28:49 AM PDT by grundle
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Desalinization will help, but there is actually plenty of water in California over the long haul. The problem is most of it flows out to sea in the heavy rain years. With adequate infrastructure, far more of it can be captured and moved back upstream to the reservoir system rather than let it go to waste.

This could all be accomplished with a fraction of what the idiots want to spend on high speed rail.


32 posted on 08/02/2014 10:29:00 AM PDT by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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Should have been doing De-Sal twenty years ago.


37 posted on 08/02/2014 10:41:30 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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Why not just buy Great Lakes water like China?

http://www.westernjournalism.com/obamas-blessing-nations-water-supply-disappearing/

39 posted on 08/02/2014 10:53:42 AM PDT by Lockbox
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Unfortunately, for the people in California, these plants use ELECTRICITY, so they are NON-STARTERS.

...but then these SAME PEOPLE voted for the SAME PEOPLE that will not allow them to have electricity.

So it’s hard to feel sorry for them.


41 posted on 08/02/2014 11:02:50 AM PDT by BobL
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Do the rat controlled state of CA want water to drink or do they want
to protect the green eyed grasshopper?.

My guess is that they will choose water.


45 posted on 08/02/2014 12:01:22 PM PDT by tennmountainman (True conservatives don't like being rained on by their own party!)
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They haven’t figured that out yet? With all their sun, and proximity to the ocean, they should be turning seawater into drinking water.


46 posted on 08/02/2014 12:02:10 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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i don’t know why the desal plant is Santa Barbara is taken out of moth balls and fired up


47 posted on 08/02/2014 12:08:05 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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They'd have enough salt to last forver

And the other good news with California sucking out all the seawater it will counteract the rising sea levels....
50 posted on 08/02/2014 2:03:21 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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51 posted on 08/02/2014 2:03:56 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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