Posted on 05/10/2015 7:07:34 PM PDT by knarf
Hmmmm ... hundreds of thousands of immediate jobs, very little expense ... no environmental impact ... California gets water
SW Pa too ... the green exploded overnight a couple of days ago.
One of the reasons I prefer Meijer stores is the availability of lots of locally grown produce. For most of the year, all of the potatoes, carrots, onions, and apples I buy are grown within 30 miles of where I sit. I’ve also got a veggie farm at the other end of the lake that I visit a lot in the fall.
Being part of the CA FReeper Community, I find your Comment a bit insensitive. LOL
We are living behind Enemy Lines out here, including the Fresno Robinson Clan.
If it’s Yellow let it Mellow, if it’s Brown Vote him down.
Modern waterworks plan for about 200gal/capita day, although tactical infantry operations might plan for 5 gal/manday.
Roman aqueducts serving Rome also provided about 200gal/capita day or about 1 cubic meter of water per person/day.
That depends on whether your eyes absorb light or emit dark.
I’m thinking let them die of thirst. They let most of their water run into the ocean to protect something that has survived millions of years w/o human protection.
Most of the farming land in California was desert before they built the aqueduct system.
California doesn’t need more water. It needs an honest pricing system for the water it has. That would chase away the wasteful and uneconomical usage of water to places where those uses are affordable. It would also chase away that part of its population dependent on the current subsidies. The challenge for the rest of the country (and points south) will be resisting the bad habits of the ex-Californians.
The Mississippi can at times get too low and be closed to shipping, it is a vital artery. The Great Lakes cannot be tapped, again the need to keep shipping channels deep enough. Besides, that would involve Canada as well. Nope, as someone said, move the people to the water makes the most sense.
If CA and its municipalities had responsible governments, this crisis would have been avoided. But instead of focusing on infrastructure and the other things that responsible governments attend to, CA has championed every zany left-wing cause imaginable. Let them parch. Maybe that will help the CA voters wake up.
I live in New York. Lefties here of all stripes would FREAK OUT if it was ever proposed to ship Great Lakes water to the SW. I imagine same is true in Michigan, Illinois, etc...
Like the "progressive" income tax. The more progressive (and filthy rich) they are....the higher their rate for water.
Perfect fit for the Californicators.
I’ve had a few more seconds to think about it and it doesn’t matter where you take the water from you are going to be messing with a protected eco-system. Environmentalists have ruined this country. I mean people can’t even do things on their own land without permission or running afoul of government, everything is a wetland even some dry land is considered a wetland because it is wet when it rains. It makes no sense.
This is an excellent idea but the environmentalists will block it. Why waste all of that flood water when we could divert it to where it is needed? Desalination is hideously expensive.
When I lived in Texas I used to notice a 2 degree drop when crossing the man-made lakes near Tyler,Texas and the temperature would go up as soon as I crossed onto dry land.
In 2011 it was 118 degrees in Plano, Texas and 160 degrees on the pavement.
Save the water, put it where it can be used.
Governor Connolly proposed such an idea in 1964 and was shot down but it is doable. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. They are obstructionists until they are fighting over the last glass of water and then the scales will fall from their eyes. We can live without a lot of things but we can’t live without water.
“The challenge for the rest of the country will be resisting the bad habits of the ex-Californians.”
We are in Ohio. We have water. We do not waste it. We garden. We do not water. We garden in such a way as to preserve the water we have.
We have grass, 5 acres of it, and some of it is pasture for our horses. We do not water...any of it. That is wasteful. We also do not fertilize, except with excrement from our horses. We do not use herbicides, and especially, we do not use Round-Up.
We recycle. Everything that is recyclable. Our trash hauling company makes big money off us...we have mostly empty/almost empty barrels each week.
And then dumped trillions of gallons into the ocean rather than use it because of the “Delta smelt” non-native species of trash fish.
Used to live in CA. Still have family there.
Nothing is going to change for the better in CA until they hit rock bottom and it *really* starts to hurt, like a junkie.
Oh, and don’t forget how they tore down dams and removed water reservoirs in the name of Mother Gaia.
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