Posted on 05/10/2015 7:07:34 PM PDT by knarf
Hmmmm ... hundreds of thousands of immediate jobs, very little expense ... no environmental impact ... California gets water
Thanks. It’s all very well to talk about water supplies, but quantities are at the center of the issue.
When I used to go backpacking in the desert, we planned for a gallon per day. Which sometimes got kind of thin.
before or after the Ostrogoths laid siege and destroyed them?
You really think Kalifornians will pay the huge costs of collecting & pumping water from 500, 1000, 1500 miles or farther? Say, 50 cents/gallon? More if the source water isn’t free. Buying the necessary rights-of-way, constructing (in an environmentally sensitive way), staffing and maintaining pipelines is not cheap.
I don’t think so either.
Not to mention, there are really few places that will be willing to give of what water they have, even for fair payment. I live in a state where the water rights are hotly disputed with neighboring states.
This makes about as much sense as those folks proposing to power the world using roadways made of solar cells. No joke, they are dead serious. Deluded but serious.
Since it would be mostly uphill it would require a tremendous use of energy.
Hey, CC! Can’t recall yappin’ at you this year, so Happy New Year!
It’s kinda sad that people have to depend on others for crops. We should encourage folks to grow what they can...kinda like Victory Gardens. My folks, and grandfolks always gardened, and it’s more or less, eat what you can and put up what you can’t.
I do buy CA grown almonds....
Water rights are being debated pretty much everywhere. While its not the same fight as out west, there are those here in Michigan who would like us to have meters on private wells.
That’s what you build reservoirs for.
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