Posted on 04/06/2015 8:08:33 AM PDT by rktman
ABC anchor Martha Raddatz pressured Brown on criticisms that the new requirements he placed on California’s agricultural industry, which uses a reported 80% of the state’s water, were soft. To put this into perspective, Raddatz reported that more water is being used for almond production than by the combined businesses and homes of Los Angeles and San Francisco.
“They’re not watering their lawn or taking long showers,” Brown said in response. “They’re providing most of the fruits and vegetables of America to a significant part of the world.”
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For the “little people” non-agriproducers of CA— no, they were not allowed desalinization plants. Instead they were gifted with rapid transit to nowhere, at extreme federal cost.
And now, wah,wah- they have no water! Surprise.
Kali built water infrastructure for so many Americans, then they let in tens of million of illegal aliens.
Idiots.
Moonbeam is the face of Big Gruberment.
I’m betting that cycles show this drought is not unexpected or unusual in terms of great spans of time.
The Democrats wish all you non-rich Californians would just do them a favor and die.
Man-made climate change is a hoax. The drought is real. Rather than build a train to nowhere for $100 billion maybe it’s time to do what Israel has done for years— build desalination plants and keep California green....
I live in the California of the East (NJ) and back in the 80s, we had droughts and car-washing bans, and rules about showers and blah blah blah. I remember back then Al Roker was a local NYC weatherman, and for some reason he was always delighted when he was talking about the drought. It was like ice cream to him. I also have a memory of playing little league baseball during long, long droughts in the 60s in Pennsylvania. So anyway, my long and seasoned memory tells me that droughts are here, droughts are there, they come and go, regardless of whether we all drive SUVs or ride bicycles. Same with hurricanes and blizzards and all that. Man-made climate change is a hoax meant to soften us up to the idea of paying tax on carbon, which means paying more tax on everything. That’s all it is.
Please stop this nonsense! The majority of California is NOT a desert. Repeating bogus information is no better than Uncle Jerry’s nonsense.
No. You're dealing with the consequences of stupid Democrat decisions to release most of the water from the central valley reservoirs to save some trash minnow.
Actually, the reason the Democrats caused the drought was to devalue the farmland so the corrupt Democrats could buy it up at pennies on the dollar.
[Gov. Moonbeam] Brown said in response. “They’re [Californians are] providing most of the fruits and vegetables of America to a significant part of the world.”
< / rimshot >
In CA and the US many dams have been built and all the good locations for dams already have dams.
If you build a dam in a lesser location it will have a higher ratio of surface to volume and have a high evaporation loss, require much more land, have higher construction costs, have higher risk of failure, and go dry very quickly because they have low inflow rates.
Having said that, there is room for 2 more dams on the Colorado river which would benefit CA, but both dams would be in the Grand Canyon. In the 50s and 60s the Bureau of Reclamation tried to build one of these dams in the Canyon which was called Bridge Canyon Dam, but public opinion killed it.
If the weather in California was perfect what would that prove?
CA never had the water to support current needs.
So, what part is coastal plain? The cliffs? The San Joaquin valley? Without the snowfall (regardless of rain) where does the water come from? Is there an aquifer, a true one?
Here’s what wiki says on agri:
“Agriculture is an important sector in California’s economy. Farming-related sales more than quadrupled over the past three decades, from $7.3 billion in 1974 to nearly $31 billion in 2004. This increase has occurred despite a 15 percent decline in acreage devoted to farming during the period, and water supply suffering from chronic instability. Factors contributing to the growth in sales-per-acre include more intensive use of active farmlands and technological improvements in crop production. In 2008, California’s 81,500 farms and ranches generated $36.2 billion products revenue. In 2011, that number grew to $43.5 billion products revenue. According to the USDA in 2011, the three largest California agricultural products by value were milk and cream, shelled almonds, and grapes.”
Yet the 2008 GDP of CA shows agri as only 2% of GDP. Damned real estate is more— guess that figures. As a farmer, the state could be a real garden of eden, except for all the flakes who gravitate there.
LOL! I remember bucket baths in the engine room in the Navy on my first ship.
Think Klamath Falls bucket brigade.
I grew up in Northern Cal and lived there from 1976 through 2003.
Growing up, the state weathered through a couple spans of three and four year droughts. It never got as bad as they are experiencing now. California is a desert climate, there are rainshadow effects that favor the coastal areas but do nothing for inland valleys. When it does rain, it can rain for a couple weeks solid, flood, cause mud slides, then not rain again all year.
There are millions more consumers taxing an already scarce resource thanks to tech and crimigrants. It’s man made to be sure, but not from globull warming.
Farmer’s get cut first, but it’s my opinion that cutting back farmer’s water access kills the buildup of moisture available in the valleys for clouds to recharge and dump at the Sierras where it’s held in snow pack.
I attended mass in San Francisco a few years back while visiting my daughter. I enjoyed it very much. A big Catholic church near downtown. Very nice people there.
If there isn’t any snow in the Sierra’s, not much to melt for the fruits and nuts. And believe me, there isn’t much snow in the Sierras this winter. But there is a possibility that we may get some tomorrow. Hopefully most of it will flow in to Nevada when it melts.
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