Why don’t they build a desalinization plant? They’ve got all the saltwater they could ever want, and they aren’t going to suddenly find some fresh water that they did not know about.
And a water recycling plant, use filtered water from waste water.
I wrote to the GOV about this and got some boilerplate letter. It was awhile ago—last year. If the mideast can do this, why not CA???
So the problem is not are the fish being deprived of water, but the fact their eggs are being sucked into the pumps, or so the dimwits claim. Desalinization plants wouldn't help there except they wouldn't need those particular pumps if we had them. Right now however, the problem isn't water supply it is stupidity on the part of the government and a possible land grab in the works.
***Why don’t they build a desalinization plant?***
We have that in the works in Texas...
and we are not in quite as bad shape as CA (yet).
Brilliant wrote:
Why don’t they build a desalinization plant? They’ve got all the saltwater they could ever want, and they aren’t going to suddenly find some fresh water that they did not know about.
Munson wrote:
And a water recycling plant, use filtered water from waste water.
They have a reservoir full of water. They just can’t use it for irrigation because it might hurt some little minnows.
And building a desalination plant would probably hurt the habitat of some little crab or insect. They couldn’t do that in California.
And recycling, sounds like a good idea, but that “plant” part, would we have to build something for that? Where would we build it. It might hurt some bird, animal, turtle, whatever. We need to study things for 5 or 10 years to know what we’re dealing with before you might be able to build that.
People need to pay attention to this. This part of California used to produce a lot of the food we eat. Expect food prices to rise dramatically this fall and winter.
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