Posted on 05/06/2015 10:41:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
They could have spent money on infrastructure to be able to handle droughts..
But NOOOooooOOOooooo...
Did that stop legislators and environmental lobbyists and social engineers from totalling flooding the state with illegals and liberals (many who never shower anyway)?
They blew the dough on pipedreams and a college system that is fruitier than grannys old fruitcake.
I don’t see how this can be avoided if CA keeps having a growing population.
And they will continue to let 70% of the water flow to the sea to keep the rivers looking pristine and the bait fish healthy.
RE: They could have spent money on infrastructure to be able to handle droughts..
They did spend money on infrastructure though... THE $68 Billion HIGH SPEED RAIL !!
Hell, our leaders are buying them health insurance with our money now.
For all the extra water they'll use Sacramento must really, really want them here.
nothing has even been built yet.. tho a lot of dough has been blown seizing properties, condemning businesses,, faking it is environemtally friendly,, this is the coup de grace if it ever actually gets started .. much less completed.. maybe they could turn it onto a bottled water express choo choo.. drain lake tahoe and truck bottles to stinkmento to be shipped at high speed to SoCal..
There is an old saying.. Whatsamatta you? You got crap for brains? They could have flushed Brown down a second time arond.. now... we all get left holding the stink.. as California blisters.. and smells .. and whales wash up on the shoreline..
The possibility of a massive emigration from California and the US Southwest if this drought continues is not such a crazy idea. It could have tremendous effect on American politics if that happens.
It’s easy, either increase supply or reduce demand. Since there is not enough time to address the supply side, suggest reducing demand...... start shipping back the illegal aliens.
It would be ironic if they moved to Oklahoma....Would they be referred to as "Calies"?
-PJ
My city will have a 36 percent restriction on water..F this state..lived here all my life but since the illegals, SEIU thugs, and liberal goons took over not even Ronald Reagan would recognize the state he loved anymore
California has been a dried-out tinder box for years, it is just that the right spark has not yet been struck.
And it probably has nothing to do with the availability of water.
California has ALWAYS had the capability of “solving” their water problems, it would have to do with exporting a vast proportion of their population. There is perhaps enough water to adequately serve the purposes of maybe half their present numbers, but they have encouraged the importation of unqualified and unmotivated people for years.
Since this is not a practical solution, the next best thing would be to find other sources of water. There is a great big reservoir of water just off their left hands, which unfortunately just a little high in dissolved salt. Policy decision, remove the salt.
Desalination plants, in the form of Thorium-powered Molten Salt nuclear reactors, set up on the ocean’s edge all up and down the coast, could generate enough heat to run a vast series of water stills, and incidentally also a huge surplus of electricity. The distilled and now salt-free water, sent in conduits to the interior of the state, would provide ample water to support maybe seven or eight times the present population, and make the land once again sufficiently productive to be the breadbasket of the North American continent and most of the Pacific Rim.
Right now, California is scarcely self-supporting.
California’s water must all be falling in Colorado, last year was the wettest I’ve seen in 10 years in Colorado, and this year may surpass last year. We’ve had rain every day for 4 days and it’s supposed the rain the next 4 days as well…..muddy car.
Typical socialist solution to any problem. One size fits all.
There is a river that runs less than a mile from my home. Our city water comes from wells (which I am sure the river water keeps full).
That river flows into the delta and then out to sea.
Unless we are using so much water that the river dries up (not likely) then us conserving water has no effect on what southern California or even the bay area have to use.
Yet, we are under the same restrictions as the rest of the state.
Should send Jerry Moonbeam Brown tons of rubber smelts.
Happened here in Maryland in summer 1999,
Local TV and Baltimore Sun posted a special hotline number to report outdoor water use to police so they could investigate and fine.
Hopefully it will dry up and blow away.
But at least we will be able to take a high speed train between the metropolis cities of Bakersfield to Stockton.
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