Posted on 03/25/2015 12:08:28 PM PDT by blam
Mac Slavo
March 25th, 2015
The announcement that California is rapidly running out of water has put new pressure on our most precious resource that could, in turn, force increased prices and shut down organic food production. Ultimately, it could even threaten the food supply.
The recent warnings from NASA hydrologist Jay Famiglietti, based on satellite data of the groundwater supply as it is threatened by the ongoing drought, is only compounding the issues for farmers who have already been driven to cut back production as water is rerouted to cities and industries. State leaders are embracing a full on crisis, and there is no sign of letting up:
At a news conference on March 19, 2015, California Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon warned, “There is no greater crisis facing our state today than our lack of water.”
In fact, there is no contingency plan if California runs out of water. Unless the situation changes, an all out war for water is coming. The first front is economic.
Thousands of farming jobs have already been lost, and many more are likely coming in the state that produces more farm-to-table produce, and in particular more organic fruits and vegetables, than any other in the United States. Many farmers have been forced to stop planting their fields, while others have found it more profitable to sell their water rights to cities than to grow their crops at all.
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Could have dumped a bunch of money into desalinization instead of a retarded bullet train. Maybe they would be ok.
Logical solution: Only verifiable U.S. citizens will be allocated water.
California Delta Smelt.
But we will have a choo-choo train.
“Forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown.”
Why would Jerry Brown care about where the choo-choo go?
They admit to over 3 million. Now add in all their American born children. How much water do you think that many people use.
When they start deporting them and their spawn I’ll start conserving water. Til then they can KMA!
I was just in S. California. Standing in line for breakfast behind me was a former teacher talking about his area - said it was 97% “Spanish”. Said he is trying to get out.
Then we flew to Big Bear for fuel and saw the mountains have only a slight amount of snow and the lakes have docks on dirt since the water has receded so much. The ski areas further north have closed already.
The last thing they needed to do was import more people.
1 - Deport the illegals and there will be water for every US citizen.
2 - Grow crops that don’t require as much water.
Golden State = Golden Showers
The Greenies have been pushing for decades now to dismantle dams, build marshland and push people out of these areas. Seems they want to restore California to what it looked like when a few thousand American Indians lived here. They're trying to dismantle the Hetch Hetchy reservoir which supplies water and electricity to the SF Bay Area. Problem is, millions of people live in California, among which are hypocrite Greenies who want to live here. Biggest water problem is due to bad politics, as you say a man-made disaster.
I have a plan to get the state water and clean up our west coast at the same time.
Get all the bull dozers in North America, line them up on the Calif border facing west, dig the dozer blades into the soil, and push the state westward until the dozer tracks are in salt water.
Many, many problems solved!
I forgot to note that the Greenies want to flood Hetch Hetchy to make it as lush as before the white man arrived, but they don't realize that American Indians tended that land and made it lush; in other words the former lush meadows were man-made by Indians. Ironic, huh, that it wasn't nature?
I still propose an aqueduct from the soggy states of Oregon and Washington that runs straight down the I-5 corridor....the land and rights-of-way are already in place....run it right down into the San Joaquin Valley.
or, as an alternative, my post #34....probably a lot cheaper than Jerry’s choo-choo.
Time to blow up another dam and foul the river for decades with silt.
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