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We should organize a protest where we pelt lawmakers with water balloons.
I think that Tom McClintock is absolutely right. RESIGN now Arnold!!
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McClintock is doing us a favor by raising this issue in this manner. I applaud him.
One of my pet peeves is that Los Angeles hasn’t made an effort to desalinize water for public use. We take water from the North, yet refuse to develop alternative sources.
So while the state gags on the amount of water being taken from the delta or Northern regions, there’s no game plan to increase Southern California water resources.
Just don’t use water is the solution our brilliant leaders have come up with.
Okay, look, desalinization is going to cost more. It may be double what our costs of other water is today. Does that prevent it from being a viable alternative? What if we produced 25% of our needs? That would only bump up the total cost of water by 25%. It would also reduce the strain on the water resources in the north.
Instead of looking for some alternative plan, the state says, “Don’t use water or power.” What kind of idiots are these people. They watch as California is swarmed by a group of people who can’t support themselves, then bitch at all California residents don’t evaporate and go away.
Screw this noise. Pull your heads out LA, Sacramento, and W., D.C. federal officials. You folks are just plain nuts.
Poor Arnold. He thought he got rid of McClintock and now Tome comes back to expose his schemes.
Gotta love it.
If California must use its river runoff for historic preservation, then it must also develop new sources of potable water and manage populations. Neither alternative is an easy fix. Desal requires generous amounts of energy and its effluent is toxic to marine life. Population management is usually onerous, even if applied naturally thru gentrification.
How is $260 million going to alleviate the drought????
“Among the ideas: Every California household should save 20 gallons of water a day for 20 days as a way to respond to the state’s drought emergency. Suggestions include filling your bathtub halfway or less, turning off the water when brushing your teeth, reducing lawn watering and running the dishwasher only when it’s full.”
This was done by many in California during the droughts of the mid ‘70’s, and then again in the late ‘80’s and yet again in the late ‘90’s. Well it sure looks like we’ve had our share of droughts here in this once great state. And yet our elected officials just can’t seem to get it figured out. Desal plants, more resovoirs and stop allotting so much of our runoff for a fish that’s too weak to swim (it uses the currents of the delta to get from one place to another) and to stupid to find somewhere else to live.
Desal plants are not that expensive now, if they built a couple hundred all up and down the coast it would eliminate the government backed drought. Currently Israel is desalinizing water at a cost of US$0.53 per cubic meter. Singapore is desalinizing water for US$0.49 per cubic meter. In San Diego a mere .46 per cubic meter.
With globull warming melting all the glaciers causing the oceans to rise, these desal plants would offset the oceans rise. (sarc)
I wonder how much of the current cross Delta flow is lost due to bad levees? There is so much low hanging fruit.