Posted on 05/10/2015 7:07:34 PM PDT by knarf
If it’s Yellow let it Mellow,
if it’s Brown it’s unadulterated Jerry!
When the flood is over, and the diversion pipe is dry, California will demand water anyway.
You will have to fill up that pipe at your own hurt.
Talk to a Delta Smelt for confirmation.
Five things keep us here, in no particular order.
1. Taking care of my Elderly Father.
2. The Weather.
3. My Wife.
4. My Health.
5. My Job.
Move? Maybe someday. For now I just ignore the Idiots and try to keep my Income low enough to avoid State Income Taxes. They can create their Liberal Utopia with as little money from me as possible.
With all due respect to the good people that actually live in CA: NO, you’ve got the government you deserve-the only way this would work is if the “wet” areas are allowed to charge whatever rates for water which they like (likely very high rates..)/.
You would play hell getting the water away from us here in the great lakes states anyway. Despite the belief that lefties would oppose, I suspect it would be a near unanimous “Hell no”.
The lakes are extremely valuable right where they are. The great lakes sportfishing industry is a $10 billion industry in Michigan alone. Tourism and other watersports are big as well. Also the great lakes create the ideal climate for certain major crops.
Besides, only an idiot would pump water 2/3s of the way across the continent, over a couple of mountain ranges only to dump it on the ground next to an ocean.
I’ve been wondering that for DECADES. There has always been flooding in some part of the country, and drought in others. Neither of which is cheap - so there is a HUGE PAYOFF possible in having that type of system. You’ll also need to couple it with large reservoirs...but definitely a good idea - and Interstate system of pipelines...and we already have that, just not for water.
Absolutely doable and probably a great return on investment - certainly relative to Solyndra and the like.
“Wouldn’t it be cheaper for people to just move to the wet areas?”
I’m reminded of that old (RIP?) comedian with the crazy hair.
“Yeah those commercials with those poor little black kids dieing of starvation in Africa. Well - here’s an idea. Don’t live in the F*%&ing desert!”
I sympathize, I really do. But if I, not always the most perceptive person in the world, could see this coming back in 1995 (and I did) and was able to pull the eject handle 20 years ago, I can’t feel too bad for the people stuck there.
All I can say is prep up because it’s about to be a wild ride there. Hopefully nobody will be an enabler and let that liberal Utopia ride a while longer; bring the pain of reality.
10% of California’s total water usage goes to growing almonds.
Sam Kinison offers a recommendation to people living in deserts
For California, the Pacific Ocean is the answer.
Its the only reasonable answer.
This was tried 40 yrs ago and Oregon/Washington said no. It is not feasible.
Pray America is waking
I’m willing to bet that given the required amount of energy necessary to move a sufficient amount of water across the continent, it would be far cheaper to desalinate from the Pacific Ocean. That, coupled with a much more sophisticated system of retaining and storing excess water during the wet years, and we could provide more than enough fresh water for our needs.
Yup, but they shut down/tore down the power plants they needed to power desalination operations. And the envirowackos there are already suing because they believe the plants will increase the salinity of the entire Pacific Ocean and kill all life in it.
The environmental protection agency has been actively blocking construction of desalination plants to make the desert and prairies bloom since at least the early 80’s when I became aware of the issue.
So it’s not like no one ever thought about fixing the problem. The truth of the matter is that the federal government created the problem.
Tapping the Mississippi would be a terrible idea. There is a huge ocean next to California. You may have heard of it. Tap that.
Reliable, long-term sources of “excess” potable water has the ring of a classic oxymoron in these increasingly parlous times vis-à-vis water supplies and water demands. .
Any diversion regarding the Great Lakes would require approval from Canada and that won’t happen. There is a minor one from Lake Michigan to Chicago but that is it.
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