Posted on 03/13/2015 11:09:46 AM PDT by blam
Texas has been in a drought for several years but it kept selling water from the Highland Lakes in Central Texas to rice farmers in the south. After so many towns' water supply was gone around the lakes and businesses closed, they finally cut off the rice farmers. About time. How about growing a crop suited to the south's climate that doesn't require so much imported water, huh?
Bring on the 'alternatives'. I'm done running.
The vast majority of Americans are in strong disagreement with what's being done to their country. I think most would join in pushing back (in one way or another), once the spark is struck.
Only one year left, and then no water????? Humans can only last about 3 days without water - wonder how many days of water the people have stored?
Of course, they could step up the desalinization projects, instead of bullet trains, maybe that can mitigate the supposedly rising oceans hysteria too.
Talk about hysterical headlines. There is no way that the water just totally disappears in a year’s time. There is still the possibility of more rain, there are desalinization plants already working etc.
Four years later, when I was in college an awful lot of us were saying we were ready for the revolution-a lot of us meant it. I know and work with quite a few people who still say they are, and I’ll bet there are plenty more of us around.
Thank you for being another sensible voice, FRiend...
Oooooo. A task force. How long will it take to decide what shape the meeting table should be?
Tens of millions, and it's only going to take one little spark to light us all up.
“80% of California’s water goes to agriculture so that people in other states can have fresh produce all winter. “
Wrong. Ag moved to Kali to take advantage of illegal alien labor. Kali, itself, and water had nothing to do with it.
Agriculture in California long predates illegal immigration and has far more to do with climate and growing conditions than cheap labor.
I do believe you are right-I’m in the process of going galt to be ready...
Some of us can't go Galt. Too many mouths to feed. Still, quite a few men with families and responsibilities answered the call in the mid 1700s. They will again, should things come to that.
lest we forget, much of california is in fact a desert
it is a desert because of very long climatic condition of near drought
California is over populated and over farmed
I’m a only a contract construction person, and I’ve only myself to support now-I live in a rural area off the beaten track where I can get a few acres to build a place, have livestock and a large garden-a place set up to go off-grid if need be, where my family can come and stay if the need arises. Barter has been a regular thing out here for years-we’re just a bunch of redneck hippies, I guess...
So where will they all go? I vote for Massachusetts/New England and New York.
The point is that it is idiotic to think that anyone is only going to use the resources from their local area. It is absolutely contrary to modern human existence. Yes, reasonably responsible governance in California would quickly solve the problem ox water here. Unfortunately, we don’t have that here.. Just don’t try to sell me the idea that everything used in Texas is made or grown there.
Why are we wasting 800,000 acre feet of water on an invasive species?
That water could be a lot better used on 800,000 acres of vegetables or fruit trees.
Care to support your claim that the Delta Smelt, Hypomesus transpacificus, is no s native species?
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