Posted on 02/23/2008 4:49:44 PM PST by americanophile
Water would also be required for coal hydrogenation, should we ever want to go that route.
I wonder if, in the near future, we will be getting another import from Canada; water. They’ve got plenty of fresh water.
There is indeed decreasing supply as well as increasing demand.
However, there have been routinely decades-long droughts in the Colorado basin going back thousands of years.
Unfortunately, the 20th Century was a period of unusually stable and high rainfall in the basin, and this is when it was settled. People got used to a “normal” that wasn’t normal at all.
Hey Lion, how’s life?
One would almost think that Oscar believes himself to be somehow important.
He is not.
Not even a little.
You would think they would have plenty of water out that way this year. Lots of snow in the mountains....even in Arizona.
Doing pretty good. It was tought to get excited about anything around here after our man dropped out, but I am slowing coming back. Life does go on! How about yourself?
Can’t complain. I felt the same way, but since he’s gone I’ve had more time to listen to the socialist rhetoric from Hillary and Hussein...it’s helped to recharge my fighting batteries. :)
Water resources is going to be a major problem in the near future. Just do a google search with “battle for water resources”....unbelievable.
California needs electrical power, too. There are some really interesting things you can do with “cogeneration” plants that simultaneously produce power and desalinate water using nuclear reactors.
Of course, the chances of anything sensible like that happening in CA are nil.
Mayor Oscar Goodman - the preferred attorney for the mob crowd, back in the day.
Just saying that you might want to use a better choice of words in the future.
Lake Mead still has lot's of "fish's" in it. They don't sleep, but you might be.....
:) j/k, of course. But one never knows about the business, now do we?
Oscar has been here for a very, very long time. As have I. How is it you attach the "North East Lib" tag to him?
I'm just curious, that is all.
If you were here in town, a local, which obviously you are not, and hear Mayor Goodman talk about what he would do to to the taggers of his brand new interstate construction upgrades..........
You would know right away that the "North East Lib" tag does not work on this boy....a more appropriate one would be...."West Coast Mob Affiliate".......
Oscar has been great, on the local conservative radio talk shows all the time....he always makes sense when he is talking.....
But I would never dream of crossing his path......
Alice, when you come to town, Oscar will know about it....
LOL
Less illegal immigrants = more H20. Problem solved.
Should be interesting in the coming years. I live in Colorado.
Actually, we haven’t had any water shortages in a few years. And growth has tapered off because of the economy here.
Wouldn’t be surprised if western states might try to claim more of the water and maybe even east of the continental divide.
Too true. My husband and I have been here since 1964 and you got that right.
1) Start building desalinization plants and CHARGE WHAT WATER COSTS!
2) Build a pipeline from the upper tier of the midwest, where there plenty of water and CHARGE WHAT WATER COSTS!
I'm an AZ native and I know that our water for 50 years was subsidized by the taxpayers, and was therefore inordinately cheap. There is plenty of water. There is not plenty of free water.
Not to mention that here in the High Sierra and Owens Valley, it doesn't melt in a month or so, more like late June, July and early August.
The Coachella Valley sits on top of a large aquifer, from which we draw our water. I do believe that the valley’s allotment of Colorado River water goes directly to L.A. The golf courses here use reclaimation water.
Just like what happened here in the Owens Valley 80 years ago.
And when Lake Mead and Lake Powell are dry, in 2021, what will Goodman do?Water wars are not out of the question in the parched West.
Amen. It is also in the best interests of other states that rely on Colorado river water to promote desalination in southern California.
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