Posted on 06/16/2015 1:06:42 PM PDT by Mariner
MOUNTAIN HOUSE (CBS13) — The community of Mountain House is days away from having no water at all after the state cut off its only water source.
Anthony Gordon saves drinking water just in case, even though he never thought it would come to this.
“My wife thinks I’m nuts. I have like 500 gallons of drinking water stored in my home,” he said.
The upscale community of Mountain House, west of Tracy, is days away from having no water. It’s not just about lawns—there may not be a drop for the 15,000 residents to drink.
“We’re out there looking for water supplies as we speak,” said Mountain House general manager Ed Pattison. “We have storage tanks, but those are basically just to ensure the correct pressurization of the distribution system. No more than 2 days are in those storage tanks.”
The community’s sole source of water, the Byron-Bethany Irrigation District, was one of 114 senior water rights holders cut off by a curtailment notice from the state on Friday.
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That would be the DELTA SMELT to you, foreigner.
Maybe California shouldn’t grow almonds since it takes a gallon of water to produce one single nut. Same with the Texas rice farmers who lobby to steal water upstream because they don’t have the environment to grow rice. Thankfully, Texas has just recently put a stop to it but theirs is a wealthy lobby so this ban is only temporary.
If Cali deported all of its illegals it’d probably have plenty of water to weather this.
As always, the root of the problem is government. Government manages the water supply, decides who gets what, and how much they have to pay, regardless of the actual costs involved. As Milton Friedman said, if the government were in charge of the deserts, there would soon be a shortage of sand.
Let people pay what water actually costs, especially farmers who are being subsidized to grow water hungry crops in arid areas. The free market works when government stays out of the way.
Real estate agents still come around offering 800k for our 2BR Cal Bungalow at almost complete equity. We’re retired, and I want to move to NW SC, because SC real estate is so comparatively low, and our only granddaughter is there. But the Mrs is reluctant having been born and raised here. Thus....
Mega media irony therein. From the Wiki on that town:
In November 2008, The New York Times reported that Mountain House was the "most underwater community in America"—the ZIP code with the highest amount of negative equity on its homes.A SF exurb goes, from Obama's election to now, from being the most underwater in the country to the most out of water in the country. What a legacy! And how racist for it to happen there. According to the demographics in that Wiki, Mountain House's largest ethnic group is Native American:
Brown to Mountain House et al: Drop DeadThe state, helmed by Governor Moonbeam, shut off their water source.
Ludicrous.
Heck, that ain’t nuthin’. Pecan trees in TX and OK take 111 gallons per day.
http://www.noble.org/Ag/Horticulture/PecanWaterNeeds/
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