Posted on 05/10/2015 7:07:34 PM PDT by knarf
“...if the (water) resource is not there a exploding population base should not exist...”
Yup, send all the illegals back to Mexico, and if that does not do it, get rid of all the leftists...if you get my drift...and do not rely on California to grow crops for the rest of the world.
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Any place where it is easy for the stupid to survive eventually evolves into a political sewer.
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I was curious how much water these Roman aqueducts actually provided. Couldn’t find any. If you have any evidence, I’d be very interested.
I’ll repost here what I posted to you on the other thread.
>> Why is it an incredibly horrible idea ?
#1: Do you REALLY want a federal bureaucracy governing every aspect of using and producing water — from where, and how deep, you drill a well, to how often you can water your lawn and wash your car? ‘Cause what happens in California and Texas (my own perennially drought-plagued state) will affect (say) how often you water your lawn in Pennsylvania. Do you really want that degree of control by the government that brings you that miracle of efficiency, ObamaCare? Think about it.
#2 Where do we stop with this concept? Why just water? North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and Texas all have natural gas production. Tennesee has little. That’s unfair... the producing states should pipe it to Tennessee (coerced at the point of a FedGov gun). And how about granite? I hate the prices I pay for a granite countertop. New Hampshire calls itself “the granite state”. C’mon New Hampshire... you’re getting our natural gas and Michigan’s abundant water — pony up that granite for all of our benefit?
#3 How about states like Colorado? What do they have to offer? Nothing but “scenery”. That’s why Colorado was basically ignored as a pretty wasteland for hundreds of years (until gold and silver were discovered, but that’s about played out). So under your plan, every other damn state will send Colorado their God-given fruits, and then what? They’ll export scenery? Can’t be done. So even MORE californicators will move to Colorado, pay nothing (at the state level) and suck up the bennies of all the other states.
I tell you, centralized averaging of the natural wealth of the states is a losing proposition.
The problem is gravity. Building the “pipes” is nothing compared to building (and powering!) the pumps. And the volumes that it would really take to make a difference would be mind-boggling.
“I was curious how much water these Roman aqueducts actually provided. Couldn’t find any. If you have any evidence, I’d be very interested.”
There were one heck of a lot fewer people then that there are now.
Cheaper solution - make each illegal bring a bucket of water when they cross the border.
Most (not all) California irrigated agriculture would not exist without massive government projects to provide them with subsidized water at far below cost of providing it.
Reflexively defending such projects seems an odd POV for conservatives.
Neither!...conventional light bulbs produce HEAT!
...light is just a by-product....You can shield the light but you cant stop the heat.....Do your own DD...
They mostly emit light but they also absorb dark. Just look at an old light bulb. It will have accumulated quite a bit of dark on the inside of the glass.
I would love to see diversified farming — possibly on relatively small scales — all across this country. Have people own real property. Have them support themselves through their direct ownership of property. Good for people, good for food production, good for a resilient national food supply.
It would be nice if government and regulations didn’t make it hard. But Big Agriculture wants to stay Big and it wants to stay where it is. And Big Government will try to make sure that happens.
It is generally considered that Rome had a population of about a million. I was just wondering how much water that population used, relative to the amount used by modern American cities.
Also, AFAIK, the Romans never tried to irrigate massive areas using aqueducts.
Looks like ... true to form .. I just jumped right in there without looking ..... again
Yes, I understand that at night, the second you switch them off...they start sucking up all the light in the room...then the darkness.
California has built a system that could meet the currents needs in California. But more than half the water in the system now goes to conservation projects.
There is a spring near me, Morrison Springs which produces 48 million gallons of pure clear water a day.
That would have to be of some benefit but getting it to California from the Florida Panhandle would be a huge problem.
Yeah, I’ve been wondering about that lately, especially since we are awash in water here in East Texas this spring and all the lakes are flooding over their spillways.
Now, we do sit about 400 feet above sea level here, so there would have to be a lot of pump stations. I assume CA would have to purchase the water from whatever state it came from.
We don’t solve problems in this country anymore. We just bitch and moan.
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