Posted on 02/01/2014 4:01:08 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Amid severe drought conditions, California officials announced Friday that they would not send any water from the state's vast reservoir system to local agencies beginning this spring, an unprecedented move that affects drinking water supplies for 25 million people and irrigation for 1 million acres of farmland.
The announcement marks the first time in the 54-year history of the State Water Project that such an action has been taken, but it does not mean that every farm field will turn to dust and every city tap will run dry.
The 29 agencies that draw from the state's water-delivery system have other sources, although those also have been hard-hit by the drought.
Many farmers in California's Central Valley, one of the most productive agricultural regions in the country, also draw water from a separate system of federally run reservoirs and canals, but that system also will deliver just a fraction of its normal water allotment this year.
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Without illegal immigration there would be enough water.
I saw some comments on the Yahoo posting of this that talked about desalinization plants. But they were talking wave and solar and wind powered ones. LOL.
Guess they don’t need all those illegal immigrants now to pick the produce now since there won’t be any farms left...
We've been under drought conditions in Texas for 3 years. The local lake has practically dried up.
I'd say, if at all possible, give your farmland a break and let it go fallow for a couple seasons. Once the food starts drying up in the cities and politicians lose the revenue, the situation may change.
I don’t think so. It’s the crops, the crops. The crops feed the whole nation.
It would be useful to examine the political leanings of the districts being denied water by a democrat governor.
I lived in TX for almost 10 years, (Houston area) and we had no shortage of rain when I was there. It’s hard to imagine it any different, although I don’t doubt your word.
The problem with rain in TX is the flash floods that seem to follow! I remember allowing (forcing) a young man (16) to hole up in my house for the afternoon when the streets flooded almost to the front doors on the houses. He was driving my son home from school and thought he could make it to his house (a mile away and on lower ground) because he was sure that his Volkswagon would float!
“Sit down. There’s a desk, a lamp, and a phone. Here’s a plate of cookies and a glass of milk. Call your mother and wait it out.”
He was gone in an hour as the water receded. LOL.
And he could do it too. Brown went to seminary before he abandoned it all to go into politics and hippiedom.
If it’s state owned land then the state already gets lease payments and royalty.
Up it 25% more, which would be another 1/4 royalty, and you get no drilling because when you get down around 55%-65% for the operator it’s not profitable because of the taxes.
With private property it would probable be even lower % for the operator.
They are already o water rationing and have been for years.
I agree. Desalinization is the way to go. Too bad that they didn’t start building those plants 25 years ago.
The only fly in the ointment is that the coastl liberals will scream about “ugly plants spoiling our views of the ocean.”
My point is that without illegals in So. Cal., there would be more water available during a drought for legal citizens and for the crops...the crops.
You mean tax the consumer 25% because that is who eventually pays the extra costs laid by gubmint.
Houston is a whole world away from the Permian Basin, about 650 miles from where I live. The biggest tree’s we have here are fence posts brought in from the Hill Country.
“Frack for gas
Tax the producers 25% of their gas.
Use the gas to power desalinization plants
Free water
The technology is proven and off the shelf in use in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Israel”
All I can say is some people should not make their comments this public, the lack of knowledge shown in your comment is astounding.
I couldn’t stay away from that comment either. The producer already pays a severance tax to the state, 20 to 25 percent to the mineral holder and 20% to the Fed. Yea let’s hit them for another 25% and shut them down completely.
El Paso is halfway to Los Angeles from Houston! Or, so I was told on a plane one time. You are right; the weather patterns between Houston and West Texas are quite different.
It is now old technology
you need to get out more often. It's a new world
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