Posted on 03/16/2015 5:01:21 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Why not desalination? There’s an ocean out there.
Do not worry about the delta smelt, they will be fine.
Put the dams back online and let the Farmers use the available water INSTEAD OF allowing the water to flow into the sea
Government does not worry about people in environmental regs, only delta smelt. It will take a complete change in government regs in Washington to make any change, and that includes a complete flushing of all regulators and regulations.
I have dozens of asparagus plants in my perennial garden, growing about 20 perennial climbing spinach plants under grow lights, I have 3 dwarf peach trees, MANY strawberries, and 2 plum trees.
Carrots, bell peppers , cauliflower, broccoli, celery, leaf lettuce, Romaine lettuce, tomatoes, and artichokes are not hard to grow.
I don’t do much with lemons or avocados.
Give California back to Mexico, and build a huge fence around it (as much to keep the liberal moonbats in as the illegals)
Until it stops being a communist state, I don't!
Well, of course I do.
Because the liberals who run Cali would much rather have the issue than a solution. Hold the issue in front of voters' noses every election and they'll bite at it, just as a speckled trout goes after a salmon egg on a hook. Desalination would rehydrate the thirsty landscape out there, and provide the folks with all the drinking water they could ever need (wouldn't it also assuage all those climate nutjobs' concerns about the "rising ocean," too?). It has worked for decades for the Israelis. But instead, Cali's state government wants $17 billion trains.
Any article that says “all the models agree” has lost all credibility with me.
This is another “crisis” to be exploited.
It is true that we have been “mining” water. But food in the United States costs less than half it does in Europe. The extreme crisis will occur in the marginal populations, like in Africa and Bangladesh, that will not be able to afford increases in food prices.
Well.. the uber-liberal coastal region, anyway. There are still some Americans languishing behind the lines there.
Over reliance on California is foolish in the best of times. Its an arid state with a potential for serious drought always looming.
Crops should be regionally diversified. 2012 is a perfect example. The midwest apple crop was virtually non existent but the northwest apple crop boomed. Root crops and leafy green vegetables also do very well in those regions.
That said, abundance is a good thing. If we grow more than we need we will never have a shortage.
So the desert conditions are the “historical norm”? Who let the little nugget of truth out? I keep hearing the drought is caused by man made image change...
That would take a lot of CHEAP energy. No NUCLEAR power plants, No cheap energy.
America's marginal populations do their grocery shopping at KFC, which will remain largely unaffected. :)
Why not stop dumping water in the ocean for the smelt?
They will be free, per Obama's edict, to invade other parts of the country.
California is now and always has been a desert. There was never a time when California was not a desert.
The coming of too many people to overuse the supply of imported water has created unsustainable urban sprawl. The weather of sunshine and no rain is the reason there is desert. Sunshine and no rain produces desert. Desert with mega population is doomed
Maybe if CA dries up the fruit and vegetable monopoly will end. Other states can start growing fresh fruit and veggies and it can be picked by Americans. Not with the indentured slave CA model uses.
Amazing how that ‘desert’ manages to feed America.
because common sense hasn’t prevailed in our country for over 30 years—maybe longer.
I came here to say this. :)
They’ve got an OCEAN of water. They just need to take the salt out. This is how they do it in the oil-rich countries in the middle east.
Build two huge plants and get plenty of water.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.