Posted on 04/03/2015 4:42:44 PM PDT by Baynative
From drought-resistant landscaping to hiring scuba divers to repair pools, Southern Californians are going to great lengths to conserve water amid the state’s ongoing drought.
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Amid those conditions, Eduardo Garcia of West Hills says he’s had to let almost all of the trees on his 1-acre property die due to a monthly water bill in excess of $200.
“And I left only for the house and all the trees [are] dying now because it’s expensive,” he said.
But he’s not alone.
West Hills resident Virgina Burke fears a nearby development of 145 homes may hurt the environment and take water from established residents.
(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...
Or if maybe they could have built pipelines to take some of the hundreds of millions of gallons of fresh water that run into the Pacific every day from rivers like the Sacramento, Klamath, Columbia and Hood to drought prone areas that are so important to the national economy.
Maybe "pipeline" has become a bad word regardless of the good it might do.
BTW - I also wonder if that 25% cutback ‘Moonbeam’ has ordered includes the thousands of Starbucks serving liberals in the golden state.
They are also flushing billions of gallons out to sea.
Desalination just isn’t “legacy sexy” to liberal idiots.
Cut water use, but keep building? Why isn’t the first step cancelling building permits?
I don’t know much about it, but I think Israel now gets a lot of its water from de-salinized sea water. Maybe California should try that, but the environmentalists would probably oppose it.
The good news is “dreamers” don’t drink water (CERVEZA!) or bathe...
They could also sell the salt to states with winter weather/snow/ice.
I suppose that would be too capitalistic and greedy.
Thanks for posting this. You can always smell environmentalists behind any action CNN breathlessly promotes. And that’s what they were doing yesterday.
Here's an article from an Israeli source.
I don't believe this is the article I'm thinking of, but one I've read is that the program has been so successful that they are scared of publicizing it for fear that people will quit being so careful with water.
And with the cutback in the use of water, will come higher prices to make up for what is lost in water usage.
Trees are smart enough to go dormant when global warming kills the environment. They’ll be back in spite of the BS.
/sarcasm;whatever
The process only takes the pure water out of the salty water, leaving a heavier concentration of salt in the water that is left (called "brine" in the article I posted upthread). The brine is then pumped out to sea to mix in with the seawater.
It has yet to be seen if it can be successfully mixed in with the seawater with no ill effect over an extended period of time (unintended consequences and all that).
The process only takes the pure water out of the salty water, leaving a heavier concentration of salt in the water that is left (called "brine" in the article I posted upthread). The brine is then pumped out to sea to mix in with the seawater.
It has yet to be seen if it can be successfully mixed in with the seawater with no ill effect over an extended period of time (unintended consequences and all that).
“Maybe “pipeline” has become a bad word regardless of the good it might do.”
Probably more that those in power in Cali are more interested in maintaining the water shortage as a political issue. Only now are they pulling the Santa Barbara desalination facility out of mothballs after nearly 20 years of inactivity.
If they haven’t stopped watering golf courses and turned off fountains, they aren’t serious.
AGENDA 21 !!)
California is the first state to fold, under Agenda 21. How long before Martial Law is declared?
Interesting....about 50 years ago Santee, CA implemented a system that cleaned sewer water to make it drinkable...I remember trying it....it was drinkable but not satisfying. Good for dishes, laundry etc tho.
...wonder what happened to that system?
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