Trump is Correct about the California Drought

americanthinker.com ^ | June 6, 2016 | Wayne Lusvardi

[az_gila]

I was born and raised in this Valley and I can tell you it's not normal. And, the historical data does not support that contention.

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I think the long term history does support that contention. The drought in CA comes and goes over time.

While 2015 was bad, the CA State Govt. figures now show that the Sierra reservoirs are now essentially back to their historic levels.

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/getResGraphsMain.action

You can also note that the population of CA has gone up 50% since the last major drought.

I remember that at the end of the 77/78 drought the Office of Drought Management simply changed it's name to Office of Flood Management...:^)

[PrairieLady2]

As far as I’m aware, Colorado supplies water to 19 states while Colorado itself suffers from lack of water. Talk about bad negotiation deals, Colorado can’t even hold back water when in drought. The water goes down stream so Houston canflush its toilets!

[RegulatorCountry]

Houston is practically a swamp, why would they need water from Colorado?

[AllAmericanGirl44]

bkmk

[justlurking]

Houston is practically a swamp, why would they need water from Colorado?

I think he is confusing the rivers. There is a Colorado River that originates in Colorado and drains into the Gulf of California.

But, there is also a Colorado River that originates in Lubbock, and drains into Matagorda Bay. However, that's south of Houston, about halfway to Corpus Christi.

The Rio Grande originates in Colorado and drains into the Gulf of Mexico, but that's the border between Texas and Mexico.

[publius911]

Trump, telling the truth to Californians.,p>Not really his greatest accomplishment.
Having lived in California since 1947, I have seen it devolve from a vibrant dynamic society to a voting constituency dumber than a box of hammers. And not nearly as useful.

Unfortunately, the elected criminals, incredible as it may sound, are DUMBER!!

The deficit welfare state spending is in competition with the Feds. Except the fools haven't realized that THEY can't just print money.

[publius911]

I was born and raised in this Valley and I can tell you it's not normal. And, the historical data does not support that contention.

How then, genius, do you explain the great flood of 1860?

That happened before the network of dams and reservoirs were built to even out the dry years.

Which your 'Bugs and Bunny' buddies demolished a couple of decades ago.

Incidentally, the Ocean does not need the water to keep the fish alive. But the valley streams and rivers sure do; that's what the function of the dozens of dams no longer there was, to keep the streams flowing. Most of the junk fish and worms and reptiles and frogs etc., in the valley have died.

[Mariner]

And there have been several floods since...but that has nothing to do with what I was talking about...genius.

And do you even have a clue about just how many damns and reservoirs have been "demolished"? I think you don't.

Do you know if CA has increased, or decreased reservoir capacity? Probably not.

[publius911]

Not like the 1860 event.

Yes.

Yes.

Have fun refuting my answers.

[Impy]

I don’t know enough about the situation to comment.

[WLusvardi]

The dry spell started in 2012 through 2016 and that is about normal. But we’re not talking about heat we’re talking about water supply, most specifically supply of imported water from reservoirs (not groundwater). And that has been abnormal because planners were running a 2 million acre foot water storage deficit for the past few years.

[WLusvardi]

I worked on this dam. It is not a capture dam, it is a storage dam only and depends on capture dams in northern california and the colorado river. Other dams built since 1975 are flood control dams. Diamond Valley Lake gives flexibility and reliability but not a new water source. Also the water is stored above ground so lots of evaporation losses.