Posted on 12/17/2014 2:23:42 PM PST by grundle
California needs 11 trillion gallons of water to recover from its three-year drought, the US space agency said Tuesday after studying water resources by using satellite data.
The first of its kind calculation of how much groundwater would end the drought was led by Jay Famiglietti of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California and based on observations from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellites.
California has experienced rainstorms in recent days but, while welcome, scientists warn that they are not enough to end the drought.
"It takes years to get into a drought of this severity, and it will likely take many more big storms, and years, to crawl out of it," said Famiglietti.
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The coastal Californian eco-nazis will never allow desalinization. They will keep their Malibu landscaping lush and green while condemning the rest of the state to “conserve” their way out of the drought. Don’t forget there will be the 4 striped squid eel that ONLY lives where they want to build the plant.
You shouldn’t screw with the original headline. Show some courtesy to your fellow Freepers.
I have some hope that even if we get flooded with Viva La Raza types that a lot of them will have some quasi-Reagan-Democrat voting patterns and help California retain some level of sanity.
Drought, drought, drought! There is no drought in Calif. It is raining like hell. There is a bad water storage plan in Calif due to all of the people living here. Mexicans also are a problem since they use water to live. So why don’t they stop with the drought line and use the too many people line.
“I have lived in So Cal for 44 years. For at least 30 of those years, there have been discussions of building a peripheral canal around the Sacramento Delta so as to transport water from Northern CA to Southern CA. The politicians in Sacramento did nothing but fight over the proposal.”
I have lived in Northern California for 74 years, and for most of that time we have been in a fight with SoCal over their penchant to take water from everyone else so they can continue to expand their Mexican Paradise to ridiculous extents. You’ve been found guilty of ruining the Owens River Valley and Mono Lake to quench your thirst, and lately your “entitlement” to Colorado River water has been cut drastically now that Arizona wants it’s lawful share. Then there’s the Peripheral Canal where you seek to destroy the ecosystem in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta then use the the San Luis Drain to send your $hitty wastewater and put it back from whence you took it with all your pollutants as a “gift” to us. Then when the last draught was ongoing, we were wondering why we were flushing our toilets with our bathwater while you were watering your lawns and letting the water run down the gutter. It’s time you voluntarily limited your growth and found water resources closer to home. Just the evaporation losses today in the canals that send you our water would provide tens of thousands of people with enough water for their needs.
And as you point out, SoCal hasn’t done squat to build any collection and storage facilities to support itself. So you (with your DWP) have been “takers” for as long as I can remember.
I have been following the replenishment of the supply in Lake Shasta (which is where you get most of your water ultimately, nearly 1,000 miles from LA). With the recent rains, it has risen something on the order of 20 feet, but it is still 145 ft below “full pool.” Interestingly, the shoreline is now at about 200 miles (it’s been as low as 150 miles), but at full pool that distance is 365 miles! Today, it holds about 1.5 million acre feet. Full it’s three times that amount. So the end question is “how many times do you pee before you flush, and did you let your landscaping die this past summer lie we did?”
I would respond the way I responded when Washington said no Columbia River water to LA. That’s ok, when we run out we’ll all move north.
Be better to spend money doing that than on that stupid bullet train.
And the solution is...mother nature.
The moonbat goal is to depopulate. overpopulation beyond the availability of resources can’t continue for ever.
“I would respond the way I responded when Washington said no Columbia River water to LA. That’s ok, when we run out we’ll all move north.”
That’s about what I would expect you to say, but it might be easier just to deport the 5 million Mexicans who currently live illegally in SoCal. Now that would be a win-win! BTW, when you move north, will they transfer your EBT accounts to a more convenient local office? Because there’s nothing in the way of your skill sets that are needed here. We have our fill of domestics and gardeners.
Who can feel sorry for a State that makes decisions to save fish, snails, whatever and then see these targets of their “protective conscious” die anyway. Dead fish and they still divert water into the SF Bay to mix with salt water? I feel nothing. The state is in a crisis because politicians are “stupid.” They make Gruber’s assessment of the US people seem precise!
well I’m down with the deportation effort. Let’s roll.
Which is crazy. SoCal gets it’s water from NoCal and the Colorado river. Desalination could eliminate that which would be a boon to the NoCal environment and the Colorado river would actually flow to the ocean again.
Why does CA have a shortage of water? Because government is in charge of it. As Milton Friedman said, if the government were in charge of deserts, there would soon be a shortage of sand. A free market in water, especially when there are shortages, would be the best solution to CA’s water woes.
“the Colorado river would actually flow to the ocean again”
It did this year. First time since the 70’s. Don’t know why FedGov decided it was the right thing to do in a really bad drought.
“With the recent rains, it has risen something on the order of 20 feet, but it is still 145 ft below “full pool.” Interestingly, the shoreline is now at about 200 miles (it’s been as low as 150 miles), but at full pool that distance is 365 miles! Today, it holds about 1.5 million acre feet. Full it’s three times that amount.”
Thanks for the info. My buddy and I were wondering about how much these storms had raised it. We talked and three hours later you answered. Thanks. I live on the Trinity river. Another one that is earmarked for SoCal.
If you fill the reservoirs up I don't see what more you can do except maybe have people leave the stare.
Desalinization
illegal aliens in the country consume about 1 trillion gallons of water a year.
Just deport them all and in 11 years, you’ll have the 11 trillion California needs.
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