Carolyn
Real bad in NC too.
At the same time, they want to import another 30 million illegal aliens over the next couple of decades, and they keep building tracts of houses IN THE DESERT! JUST STOP!
LOL. You can't make this stuff up. No one would believe it.
Wonder if this judge lives in the area under water restriction.
Water, lots of water, may be the only thing of value in the old industrialized cities of New England. Even with crippling taxes, burdensome regulations, expensive schools, and horrible winters for those who don’t like cold, the ONLY thing that MIGHT attract business/manufacturing back to the Northeast is plentiful clean water.
That said, as a N. Cal resident, there is no bad reason to cut S. Cal off from our water. They live in a freaking desert. They should learn to like rock gardens, not lawns.
They can also fix the kind of crops they grow in the central valley. Currently farmers grow cotton (a water intensive crop) using federally subsidized water at the same time the federal government pays farmers in the south not to grow cotton. It is insane.
i’ve lived in socal for over 20 years.
i’ve never seen any water conservation. people waste water here.
i’m from denver where the water cops come out and ticket you if you water your lawn on the wrong day.
some of socal’s water comes from colorado.
A water shortage means that the price of water is too low. They should raise the price by one penny per gallon. That would encourage conservation, and they could even use that extra revenue to build a desalinaiton plant.
Repeat after me: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A WATER “SHORTAGE” NEXT TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN! There is only a shortage in the willingness of *government* water utilities to spend the necessary money to desalinate sea water.
It is just foolish for anyone to accept the basic premise the advocates of a “water shortage” want the public to accept.
At the very least, we can buy pallet loads of water from Fiji (see: http://www.fijiwater.com/) and have it sent in via FedEx. This is certainly the absurd example, but anyone can have all the “Natural Artesian Water” they want, if they were willing to foot the bill. Indeed, I can buy a liter of Fiji Water at my local convenience store and FedEx will ship it just about anywhere in the world overnight for less than $75. This being true, there is no “shortage” of water, only a shortage of water at a price that some people want to pay.
Many nations are using seawater desalination to provide fresh water and at a cost that compares well to existing fresh water treatment methods.
Here we go again. Sheesh!
Where are we in the cycles? At least in California.
Never fails the news media is full of CONSERVATION of water articles just prior to the cycle of drought ending and the deluge beginning.
I’m scrambling to get the landscape replaced after Gophers and frost last year killed much of it off, and caused my leach beds to overflow. It’s either ‘08, or ‘09 the rains will hit like forty days and forty nights again, and then all will be mum with the MSM. It always works that way.
If passed, the Clean Water Restoration Act of 2007 would threaten the property of an unknown number of people who own land where any "waters of the United States" may flow. Congress should oppose any bill that could place privately-owned property in the jurisdiction of the federal government.
The last sentence isn't in the article, it was in an email to me.
The article is HERE
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This article can be found on other sites as well. Some FReepers don't care for JBS.
Californians — Remember this — When a call is made to use less water, they always base it upon the previous year’s usage. So if you want to have the right amount of water next year, use extra water now.
Well the LA area leans left, so they should be proud and happy to help the little smelty fish survive, no?
ping
Turn on the faucet and drip, drip, drip ........
Where's the Owens Valley in this equation?????????
Are they saying that 2/3 of the 50% comes from the Delta, 1/3 from the Colorado River and the OTHER 50% from Owens Valley?
Sheer nitwittery. Just wait 'til these eco-nuts and their friendly "judges" get an entire city reservoir put off-limits due to some "endangered" species living there.
I am sure that they will blame all of this to global warming. But many should blame this on Mr. Mulholland who stole water rights from farmers in order to pipe in water.
They oughta just build a combination nuclear power/desalination plant. There! All problems solved!