Posted on 09/29/2015 1:17:21 PM PDT by detective
I was walking through downtown Sacramento recently when raindrops started falling. People on the street stopped dead in their tracks, looked up at the sky, and began acting giddy. “What’s that?” I asked a man. “I think it’s something called rain,” he responded. Such is the gallows humor in a state that hasn’t seen substantial rainfall in years.
The obvious lack of rain is the seemingly obvious reason for the state’s lack of sufficient water. Water levels in state reservoirs are falling, officials are cracking down on “excess” water use (lawn-watering, etc.), and voters passed a water bond on the 2014 ballot to help fund more storage. The Capitol crowd is obsessed with the water issue, while local planners use the crisis to clamp down on building permits.
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Water supply and irrigation have been successfully completed for thousands of years. The Romans built thousands of miles of aquaducts.
I thought it was because it hasn’t rained much.
It was actually caused by Jerry Brown in the 70s.
We could not grow California without water rights from up north.
We had those rights and we grew the population into millions.
There were some years where we got lots of water, so for no good reason without anything in return Jerry Brown gave away the water rights as he exited his office (to my memory). Now because of him we are dry and they are binding BS ways to tax.
Of course we elected the turd again decades later
That’s alright. El Nino brought more than enough rain the last couple of years and is about to do it again.
If they would capture the water that flows to the ocean when it does rain, they would have enough. Instead they hope it rains in the mountains in northern CA. Why should we have to rely on it raining in a postage-size location, when 90% of the water is flowing to the ocean?
United States Drought Monitor
http://www.droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
Also, in CO, after quite a few months of wet weather, it’s been bone dry and hot for a couple of months on the Range. The peaks are totally dry. The drought appears to be expanding again.
bttt
They can’t divert running water. whatsamatta wi you?
Don’t you know horny speckled salamanders live in those waters?
They are way more important than 15million people.
Common sense tells us to cut back on the programs that send water to the sea. Political and “feel good” nonsense says that we must protect a bait fish even if the effect on people is negative. I have said before that sending many illegal immigrants back to Mexico would lessen the demand for water.
In that context it was about floating thousands of black plastic balls on a reservoir to slow evaporation at the cost of $34,000,000 was a waste. Guess what? The State of California is now collecting those black balls. Seems that there was a unforseen problem with the chemistry of Sun, Water and Plastic. SHEESH!!!!!!!!!
What’s this WE crap, I never voted for Moonbeam.
I know a PROG/LIB/COMMIE when I see one.
Zactly! Whatsamatta wi dem guys?
Don't they know that unicorns and leprechauns entice people to drive SUV’s and the unicorn flies to the Sun with Icarus to make it heat up, or cool down, depending.
If it rains, it's global warming.
If it doesn't rain, it's global warming.
If it's hot, it's global warming.
If it's cold, the heat caused the cold.
If nothing happens the global warming went on vacation or hiatus or it grew paws.
If the roulette wheel lands on red, green or black, you lose and the Socialists and power hungry politicians win.
If there is weather of any kind, it proves global warming.
Pay NO attention to Science. Jet-setting popes,politicians and celebrities know more about CO2 than us peons.
I reside closer to the mountain
sources of California’s main water
supply than just about any other
FReeper you can find so I feel
qualified to respond. So far
this drought IS man caused. The
envirolibtards have successfully
resisted efforts to build
more dams and to expand existing
dam capacity. Meanwhile, other
libtards resist efforts to
restrict illegal immigration which
doesn’t aid the water problem.
Obviously there is a limit to man’s
culpability when it comes to storage.
Theoretically a drought could extend
beyond any possible increase in storage
capacity. Desalination? That is another
story.
Deport the illegals and CA will have plenty of water.
Ya, well... So did Pat Brown, Moonbeam's Demonicrat Daddy!!!
All of this is true except the conclusion. The 20th Century happened to be the wettest century in the past few thousand years for California and the Southwest. Normal centuries in that same period saw an average of only 2/3 the amount of wet we got in the 20th Century. Worse, centuries-long mega-droughts in the same period produced an average of only 1/3 the average yearly precipitation of the 20th Century. For California and the whole Southwestern US.
The place happens to be something called "desert". There is a reason for that.
Environmentalists blame everything they don't like on the presence of nasty human beings. Regretably a fair number of right-wingers do too. They think real life is a conspiracy.
S### happens.
Libtardism is driven by population density. It’s why most city slickers are commies. If there is not enough water to build more apartments then libtard growth ceases. CA doesn’t need more water, it needs less libtards.
Not really.
“The
envirolibtards have successfully
resisted efforts to build
more dams and to expand existing
dam capacity.”
True. Although the greens have not attacked Hetch Hetchy reservoir because that is SF’s source of water. People in SF really do believe that LA steals their water. It would be impolitic to bring reality to SF voters about water—they get water from a reservoir that disturbs the environment profoundly.
Concur.
So many FReepers want to play the “America
against California” game. I guarandamntee
that you would much rather have this
rural conservative Californian as a neighbor
than your basic downtown libtard Houston, Texan.
Our biggest issues between Americans involves
rural vs urban citizens.
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