Posted on 07/31/2008 9:17:55 PM PDT by kellynla
The wildfires that have burned more than 1 million acres are the most visible symptom of another long, hot, dry summer in California. Less visible, though no less devastating, are the effects that the prolonged drought has on the state's water supply and environment.
Although no one disagrees on the urgent need to fight the fires, there has long been sharp disagreement about how to address California's chronic water shortage.
The time has come to break the stalemate.
So, in the spirit of bipartisan cooperation, earlier this month we offered a compromise water bond package for the Legislature's consideration. We believe it is critical that the Legislature act swiftly to place such a measure on the November ballot.
Why the hurry? Put simply, our water supply is in jeopardy. We are experiencing the second year of drought, and 2008 had the driest spring ever recorded in the northern Sierra and other parts of Northern California. If the dry conditions continue into next year, we could be facing the worst drought in California history.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
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start desalination of the ocean water.
“start desalination of the ocean water.”
uhhhhhhhhh...that’s what I’m talking about...
I'm scared to read more. ;-)
yea, well all you have to read is the paragraph I quoted in my first post... Dumb & Dumber’s “proposal”...which is a big nothing!
You are absolutely correct, kellynla! Failing that, they should at least finish the Auburn Dam and the peripheral canal that were both stopped in the mid seventies through Democrat political mischeif!!!
I didn’t know there was such a thing as a “cogeneration” nuclear power plant. I thought the problem with nuclear power was the inability to get rid of the waste.
Silly me.
Never mind.
” I didn’t know there was such a thing as a “cogeneration” nuclear power plant. I thought the problem with nuclear power was the inability to get rid of the waste.”
You’re a little behind the times. LOL
“Rapid increases in population levels have led to greater demands for fresh water and electricity in the Arab World. Different types of energies are needed to contribute to bridging the gap between increased demand and production. Increased levels of safeguards in nuclear power plants have became reliable due to their large operational experience, which now exceeds 11,000 years of operation. Thus, the nuclear power industry should be attracting greater attention. World electricity production from nuclear power has risen from 1.7% in 1970 to 17%-20% today. This ratio had increased in June 2002 to reach more than 30%, 33% and 42% in Europe, Japan, and South Korea respectively.”
http://www.inderscience.com/search/index.php?action=record&rec_id=3677&prevQuery=&ps=10&m=or
Nuclear Desalination
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf71.html
Meanwhile, the USA sits here with designs for "Breeder Reactors" in a Jimmy Carter inspired deep freeze that would recycle so-called "waste," or spent rods into such a small mass for the whole US that it would all fit in a shoebox along with some of Jane's pumps!!!
Can California still borrow these billions?
the thing that really gets me is they load all these p eople into this state and tell them to conserve?
we can recycle and c onserve til forever and they will continue to move more people in here and tell us to save even more. It is like a really nasty experiment they are playing on us.
If we need water desalinate the ocean water. If we need electricity, time to go nuclear. It is their job to provide us with the services not continue to tax and not provide SHIT.
Sierra Wasp is right!
Unless of course they settle on the Folsom South Canal corridor, then I am going to be the biggest NIMBY ever and join hands with the enviro-whackos and hippies to oppose it since it would run about 200 feet away from my new home.
That stands for Sure Happy It's Thursday, right? (snort!)
uh, ok it can.
I wuz justa wonderin... Goodnight. I gotta go take my bloodpressure medication now. Schwartzenfrauder just makes me too pist and off I go in a cloud of contempt!!!
The following:
"Our proposal includes modernization of our aging water systems, significant investment in healing and safeguarding the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and other important ecosystems, increased water storage in reservoirs and underground aquifers, improved conveyance and a strong focus on conservation programs.
will never provide long range and long term solutions to:
(1) the long term natural history of the southern half of the state indicates that it has never, in thousands of years, had a sustained climate for long that could produce a sustainable water supply supply for the population level that exists there today and will exist there in the future unless mother nature, or war, decimates it to the level of the 1700s; in fact, in the southern part of the state, long droughts have been more the norm than the exception;
(2) the long term natural history of the northern half of the state indicates that it has never, in thousands of years, had a sustained climate for long that could produce a sustainable water supply sufficient for the population that exists there plus a surplus for the population that exists in the southern half of the state, much less what both halves of the state will require as the population continues to grow;
(3) while these factors were recognized long ago, and the Colorado River, on California's western border, was harnessed for the state's water supply, primarily for southern California, current trends indicate it, as a source of water for California, will not keep up with population growth unless something drastically increases the sources of the Colorado River - water from the Rocky Mountain range, north and east of Nevada.
Therefore the measures proposed will become mere stop gaps and inefficient - they cannot resolve the long term problem - the natural water supply from "climate" and continental sources cannot, by any natural means, meet the long term needs of the actual civilization inhabiting California.
The state MUST use the Pacific Ocean as a water resource and the sooner it starts that effort then the cheaper it will be, the less money it will waste on ineffective stop gap solutions and the fewer "water crises" it will experience in the long run - droughts or no droughts.
Many of the problems concerning issues in the northern half of the state would be greatly relieved, and made easier for conservation measures to help alleviate, if desalinization ended the need for waters from the northern half to be sent south in the American Canal. Not moving to desalinization will make northern conservation measures insufficient to any long term solutions. The crisis will repeat themselves, perennially.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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