Posted on 05/10/2015 7:41:02 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Having grown up there, that brings a smile. Where is that?
SE Jackson county near Napoleon and Brooklyn.
California? You mean the home of Freerepublic?
What is that tank?
California sits next to the largest body of water in the world. The oceans of the world collectively, are at it’s disposal.
Even little Israel has the financial wherewithal to desalinize the Mediteranian, but poor old California is (dis)graced with leadership that hasn’t got 200 brain cells collectively. And these are supposed collectivists.
It’s a disgrace what 50-70 years of Democrat rule in California’s legislature has done to the state.
That’s the one. Freerepublic is definitely a plus, but California is a circling the drain. Time to move the servers and let the state implode.
Some of those photos are a bit hysterical in their posing. Yes, there is a draught. But really, edges of ski runs? I’ve seen bad snow months in the alps in Switzerland too. Some of the perspective and cutting is global warming hysteria. I’ve driven through CA recently. It’s bad. But a driving range that isn’t pure green - so what? Oy.
California Opens Up the Floodgates for Desalination
http://news.discovery.com/earth/oceans/california-opens-up-the-floodgates-for-desalination-150508.htm
The move was welcomed by developers who already are moving ahead on big desalination projects, including the Carlsbad Desalination Project, a $1 billion plant near San Diego that is under construction and scheduled to begin delivering potable water to consumers this Fall. That project is expected to provide 50 million gallons of fresh water each day, about 7 percent of San Diego County’s water needs.
“It reaffirms that the Pacific Ocean is part of the drinking water resources for the state of California,” said Scott Maloni, an executive with Poseidon Water, a development firm that’s working on the Carlsbad project and another proposed plant in Huntington Beach.
California already has a string of small-scale desalination plants, such as one built in 1991 on Santa Catalina Island that provides about 90 percent of the drinking water for that isolated offshore community. By comparison, the Caribbean nation Aruba provides its residents with freshwater using a desalination plant with a capacity to provide 11 million gallons of freshwater a day. Israel currently has the world’s largest desalination planet, and its plants’ combined output provide freshwater to 35 percent of the population, with plans to produce 70 percent of Israel by mid-century.
But the Delta Smelt THRIVES!!!
.....California sits next to the largest body of water in the world.
You got that right! SO glad we escaped from this state.
Here we are in the middle of a water shortage situation that is very acute, and the state is just now getting started on these projects. We have one significant one. Why don't we have thirty?
The leadership in this state has failed miserably. Even without this drought, water supplies would have been very tight right now.
Southern California in particular is very strapped for water.
People are being limited to watering their lawns one time per week. They are to cut back their water usage by 20%. Many folks have already cut back due to the shortage, and now this makes it very difficult for them to hit that 20% figure.
There was no need for this. Lakes in northern California were drying up a decade ago. The leadership couldn't figure this one out?
What the hell do we pay them for?
Our freeway system is literally falling apart. Our water supply is very inadequate. Our other infrastructure is in a shambles.
Global warming and gun control are the two main thing the California Legislature works on. We'll that isn't actually true, because they also implement other Leftist agenda legislation at will.
After 50 to 70 years of the Liberals running the show, it's really time for California to actually have some leadership, and above all sanity in that leadership.
While I understand why you did, it disturbs me how many people left the state who could have helped us turn the place around.
A major portion of the state is still Conservative, but the major cities outvote it.
If all those who left were still here, the place wouldn’t be nearly as bad as it is.
We would prevail much more often.
Yes, cost would be a factor. But, if you have NO water what are you going to do? Water purchased from a vending machine costs one dollar. I’m sure the cost of delivered rail water would be considerable less. But, that remains to be seen.
Water from sea water and pipe lines will be years down the road. Water by rail is not new. Arrowhead water until recently was delivered by rail to California processing plants. WBR is an emergency fix for those areas in need.
Stopping subsidizing water use in a desert? Just a thought...
We did all we could to try and “fix” this state. We went to every local, state and federal meeting and voiced our opinion.We went door to door, when we could, to make sure all voters knew what was going on. It did not help at all.
We lived in a somewhat conservative area in Northern CA. Then the Bay area people moved in, because it was cheaper to live in our area.
Soon, we could not say Merry Christmas because someone might be offended. Then there was all this transgender bathroom stuff for school children.
We got hit with a “fire tax” because we had trees in our backyard and they “might” burn.
After that, we could not water our lawns or gardens.
I could go on and on.
We finally voted with our feet and moved away.
We miss our prior home and our friends, but we needed to face reality.
CA is a failed state due to its’ own stupidity.
California is failed in party by it’s own stupidity. I don’t have a problem with that.
While we’re being frank though, we have to recognize other facts as well, at least the Republican party does.
In state the Republican party is worthless. The national entity has also abandoned the state.
Tens of millions of dollars are raised in-state, and taken elsewhere to be spent on campaigns. In state talent that is wholesome, gets no funding at all.
When important elections are held, no big names come here to bolster support for our Conservative candidates.
With no money, no big names, no Republican in-state leadership help, Conservatism has no voice in California.
You can’t sell something most folks aren’t even hearing about.
It takes big loud voices to be heard. It takes money for television spots.
California might just as well already be Mexico as far as the Republican Party is concerned.
The Left funds their people out here. They bring in past presidents, current Senators and Congressmen... the party wants to win California and it leaves no stone unturned.
So yes, Californians should be somewhat responsible, but you can’t have the other side outspending you ten to one, the media only putting their face on television, and them attending massive rallies across the state, and win as a Conservative in the state.
If our people got national and in state Republican leadership support, California would be in play. They don’t. It won’t be.
FTA: Almonds use an estimated 10% of the state’s water budget
Why grow such a thirsty product in a dry state? Are they not able to grow say in Oregon or Washington?
California wastes so much water. Read this and you can see it is not lack of rain but lack of common sense among the politicians along with Jerry Brown’s insanity.
70 percent of California’s rainfall washes out to sea because liberals have prevented the construction of a single new reservoir or a single new water conveyance system over decades, during a period in which California’s population has doubled,” said Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett Packard and likely GOP presidential candidate. “This is the classic case of liberals being willing to sacrifice other people’s lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology.”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/04/16/man-made-disaster-critics-say-california-drought-caused-by-misguided/
Even on the driest year in recorded history in 2013, it still rained 3.6 inches in Los Angeles. An inch of rainfall in L.A. generates 3.8 billion gallons of runoff, so you’re talking about more than 12 billion gallons of water that could be captured, but that flows within hours down our concrete streets and into the ocean. There’s enough rainwater to be harvested to produce 30-50% of the entire city’s water needs.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ashoka/2015/04/15/why-does-california-let-billions-of-gallons-of-fresh-water-flow-straight-into-the-ocean/2/
I still think it’s the damn Chinese and all their cloud seeding shenanigans.
I’ve wondered why they don’t let the ocean drain into the Salton Sea and set up solar evaporation units, like the ones in emergency kits that have a tent over evaporating water. Maybe they could even use solar panels to speed the evaporation.
Water is right there with food and power as something the government should promote.
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