Just wait until the Gold King mine toxic waste spill by the EPA contaminates the Colorado River...because our leaderless government hasn’t dammed up the San Juan River to prevent the contamination.
California (LA!) uses 5 million acre-feet of fresh Colorado River water each year.
Thanks to the federal government under 0bama (EPA spilled it, 0bama failed to stop the spill from further contaminating fresh water downstream), those 5 million acre-feet of fresh water are about to disappear...
...replaced by toxic water.
Think of Mexifornia as a giant anthill.
Borax mixed with sugar’ll do it.
Exactly right. Case in point would be: Poor Planning by the government, specifically: Santa Barbara Desal plant.
Built in 1991 for a capacity of 7,500 acre-ft per year the plant was shut down after less than a year of operation.
Had that plant operated all these years it could have produced 172,500 acre-ft of water or enough for almost 700,000 people.
One acre-ft is enough for a family of four for one year (as a rule of thumb).
While what the environmentalists take is precious and important for farms, it's CHUMP CHANGE compared to the lack of RAIN.
There will be plenty of water once the Limousine Liberals get all of the little people off their beaches and highways.
What is not being said in this article is that the ‘solution’ to keeping arid regions farming is to shut down the farms in the northern part of the valley (where the water is) and then send it south.
The Bay Delta ‘Conservation’ Plan (BDCP) will take 175,000 acres of delta farmland and change it into ‘habitat’. This is being done because when all the fresh water gets taken away from the Sacramento River delta then that delta will become a salt water wasteland so far as farming is concerned.
So 175,000 acres of farmland gets seized in eminent domain and 40,000 people get evicted from their towns, homes, and farms. All so another set of farmers can continue to farm in a desert. Oh, and so Los Angeles’ Metropolitan Water District can have more water. Can’t have the Hollywood elites with brown lawns, can we?
FReepers: Be careful what you think you’re supporting here. When you’re on the same side as Hollywood and Governor Jerry Brown you need to be asking yourselves what’s wrong with this picture!
Anyone who has served in the military recalls being taught basic survival skills..including the fact that when potable water is NOT available, it is safe to consume your own urine three times before it becomes too toxic. Some of us, in long ago times, even had the “pleasure,” under the kind, benevolent gaze of our DIs, of trying a cup of our own piss, in order to prove the instructor correct...as in..”see, it won’t kill you.!” So, how long before Gov. Moonbeam informs Californians of this solution to the state’s water crisis?
The normal rain patterns will return, it always does may take a couple of years, but like the dust bowl of the 30’s nature repairs itself, man has nothing to do with it.