DIE OF THIRST,
But harm not a scale of the Sacred Delta Smelt
Posted on 04/06/2015 9:44:03 AM PDT by QT3.14
California governor Jerry Brown had little choice but to issue a belated, state-wide mandate to reduce water usage by 25 percent. How such restrictions will affect Californians remains to be seen, given the Golden State’s wide diversity in geography, climate, water supply, and demography.
We do know two things. First, Brown and other Democratic leaders will never concede that their own opposition in the 1970s (when California had about half its present population) to the completion of state and federal water projects, along with their more recent allowance of massive water diversions for fish and river enhancement, left no margin for error in a state now home to 40 million people. Second, the mandated restrictions will bring home another truth as lawns die, pools empty, and boutique gardens shrivel in the coastal corridor from La Jolla to Berkeley: the very idea of a 20-million-person corridor along the narrow, scenic Pacific Ocean and adjoining foothills is just as unnatural as “big” agriculture’s Westside farming. The weather, climate, lifestyle, views, and culture of coastal living may all be spectacular, but the arid Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay-area megalopolises must rely on massive water transfers from the Sierra Nevada, Northern California, or out-of-state sources to support their unnatural ecosystems.
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Best to let people know what the Dems did, nice and loud
Desalination of seawater is the ultimate solution. But some enviro extremists oppose desalination because desalinating n plants produce waste, such as salt and other minerals found in seawater. Also, desalination plants run from fossil fuels.
There is currently a desalination plant under construction in southern California. But given the enviro extreme opposition I doubt there will be more such projects allowed.
There is never any significant Republican resistance to these globalist schemes.
Yes, the drought in CA is entirely engineered.
It’s way over the politician’s pay grade.
Politicians on both the left and right are just jerky minions who have no self-respect and will say or do any humilitiating thing the elites tell them to.
‘Ems good eatin’.
To prevent electrical brown outs they put up a gazzillion windmills to slaughter birds, but no thought about the water we need.
Hey moronic liberals... this is what happens when you destroy dams by the hundreds and welcome in 10’s of millions of foreigners.
Unnatural bastards
It's one of the oldest land grab schemes in the book. In this case, interests using tree huggers environmentalists, and animal rights activists as proxies, will literally dry up the entire region to make it uninhabitable, and then swoop in once the damage is done, and buy up acreage for pennies on the dollar.
I can't think of any other effective way to de-populate a region short of a nuke or open military operation.
I always read these with glee thinking, “Californians are getting what they paid for.” Then in dawns on me: these Californians aren’t just going to sit there and die of thirst. They’re going to move to states that have water. Maybe even my state. The hopes I had of staying in a Red State and someday seceding get dashed. I know there are good Californians, but you’re outnumbered, and the diaspora will include enough of the bad ones to change the politics of every state.
The thing about poor people is that they like a nice climate and pretty scenery as much as rich people do.
So they must be run out of the pretty areas.
For drinking water, maybe. But, it will never be a solution for irrigation, unless there is a widespread switch to more efficient irrigation methods that don't lose most of it to evaporation.
It requires about 10 Kilowatt hours to desalinate 1,000 gallons of water on an industrial scale, using reverse osmosis. You can do the math and figure out how that won't work for irrigation.
Well maybe the morons running the state and cities into the ground, will finally realize that putting concrete medians in the middle of the road, and then planting trees in them is a very bad idea. Just ask the former star of Fast and Furious.
I agree. Once the bulk of the population leaves, the elites can than get the state green again.
I’ve endured my California friends and kin yucking it up at my expense all winter, as they basked in warm sunny weather whilst I dug endless snow from my car and drive. It’ll do my heart good to hear of them having to adapt to navy showers, sprinkling bans, and building outhouses in their back yards to cope with flushing restrictions.
I don't know where you are, but it's likely that much of your endless snow would've fallen as snow or rain in California (or other Western states) in a wetter year. I wonder if any of them realized how they were getting so much warm, dry weather.
Bkmk
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