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Facing Dry Year, CA State Water Board is Draining California Reservoirs
California Globe ^ | 05/21/21 | Katy Grimes

Posted on 06/05/2021 11:52:08 AM PDT by eyeamok

“Are we having a dry year? Yes,” Diener says. “That is normal for us. Should we be having water shortages in the start of our second dry year? No. Our reservoirs were designed to provide a steady five year supply for all users, and were filled to the top in June 2019.”

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To: Mariner

My impression is that a lot of the water that goes to LA comes from various parts of the central valley.

If LA didn’t need that water due to desalination—then that water could be allocated to central valley farmers


21 posted on 06/05/2021 3:14:00 PM PDT by ckilmer
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To: Mariner

I don’t think he means shipping desalinated water from the coast to the valley. I think he means that the coastal regions, which are populated by millions, desalinated their own water and the valley using water from the Sierra watersheds. Which makes absolute sense to me.


22 posted on 06/05/2021 3:17:00 PM PDT by gracie1 (Look, just because you have to tolerate something doesn’t mean you have to approve of it. )
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To: SkyDancer

“In what way exactly?”

We have turned off their (actually, OUR) water.

They’ll figure it out.

100s of thousands of olive trees have already been planted. And millions of almond trees sold for firewood.

It’s a transition that takes 3-10 years...a portion at a time.

The problem is, NOTHING PAYS LIKE ALMONDS. Big corporate farms of several thousand acres dominate that crop and if it was up to them they would put the very last bucket of water onto the thirstiest crop in the state.

And they ship OVER half of the crop out of the country.

It’s obscene.

It takes a full gallon of water to grow every single nut. 10 times as much as olives.


23 posted on 06/05/2021 3:21:02 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: gracie1; ckilmer

“I think he means that the coastal regions, which are populated by millions, desalinated their own water and the valley using water from the Sierra watersheds. Which makes absolute sense to me.”

Aye.

It makes perfect sense.


24 posted on 06/05/2021 3:23:35 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

I was answering the poster who told almond farmers (whom I guess are still farming them) to switch over to olives is all.


25 posted on 06/05/2021 3:31:10 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Identify As Vaccinated)
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To: Mariner; gracie1

Key is getting the price of seawater desalination below the cost of piping water from arizona and the sierra nevadas. If you all would like to push that—a simple thing to do would be to suggest an Xprize contest. The contest would be to produce environmentally friendly desalinated seawater for $300@acre foot. I think that price is lower than the price that LA pays for water from arizona and the sierras.)

Here is the Xprize suggestion box.
https://www.xprize.org/contact


26 posted on 06/07/2021 7:59:55 AM PDT by ckilmer
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To: eyeamok

Perhaps Desalination plants would have been a better use of money than hi-speed rail.


27 posted on 06/07/2021 8:47:54 AM PDT by kanawa ((Securing the 2022/2024 elections is of paramount importance.))
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