Posted on 08/02/2014 5:50:31 AM PDT by blam
Tyler Durden
08/01/2014
As we previously commented, when scientists start using phrases such as "the worst drought" and "as bad as you can imagine" to describe what is going on in the western half of the country, you know that things are bad. However, in recent weeks the dreadful situation in California has gone from bad to catastrophic as the U.S. Drought Monitor reported that more than half of the state is now in experiencing 'exceptional' drought, the most severe category available. And most of the state – 81% – currently has one of the two most intense levels of drought.
As WaPo reports,
While California’s problems are particularly severe, that state is not alone in experiencing significant drought right now. There are wide swaths of moderate to severe drought stretching from Oregon to Texas, with problems impacting numerous states west of the Mississippi River.
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Drought in the desert, who would have ever guessed that would happen?
Sorry, couldn't resist. :)
I recently spoke with a couple from Aruba. They told me that their entire island gets its water from the practice of desalinization. Why haven’t they been planning to go this route in California? (Seems I remember reading somewhere that, in recent times, the environmentalist folks have been shutting down all sorts of water sources feeding in to California)
Desert, dessert, same difference.
It should be like...’lead’ the way, and...get the ‘lead’ out.
Different meaning same word, same spelling.
Desalination plants. There’s plenty of water to the left of the state.
Reminds me of the bit Sam Kinison did (apologies for the foul language)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0q4o58pKwA&list=PL223F0BA883078C30
Fortunately, California, as a result of its agricultural and technological wealth, has saved up a large budget surplus, and furthermore hasn't committed any of its hoards of cash on multi-billion-dollar boondoggles, such as the disastrous light rail projects that have mired other states. And it has a sensible energy policy which will make construction of the nukes a snap. So it's in a great position to deal with the present drought crisis. I wish all the states had the foresight and sage leadership that California has, such as the remarkable way it has dealt with this utterly unforeseen and unforeseeable drought. Why, Mono Lake was filled to the brim just what, four years ago?
Not sure what happened showed for a while then vanished , duh moment .
“The stupid idiots have all the water than need along their coastline. You could put a large desalination plant every 50 miles or so and produce 4,224,000,000 (4.224 billion) gallons of drinking water a day. With the added bonus of producing 41,600 megawatts of electricity, 100s of thousand of jobs building and staffing plants, etc...”
Yes, but to do that, you would need a number of nuclear power plants. Desal is all about cheap energy. Don’t know where you get the idea that Desal plants also PRODUCE electricity.
At first glance, that seems like a great idea - until you start thinking about moving all that water from sea-level at the north end to sea-level at the south end over or through the Klamath mountains.
What might be a better solution would be a series of desalinization plants along the coast. Sure, they require a lot of energy to run but small nuclear power plants could solve that problem.
Oh wait! All those voters in San Francisco and Los Angeles passed a law (or constitutional amendment) to outlaw any and all new nukes in Kali.
Oh darn! I guess we’ll just have to get used to paying $12 a head for lettuce.
I’m just glad I live in Oregon, at least for the time being, anyhow.
“(Seems I remember reading somewhere that, in recent times, the environmentalist folks have been shutting down all sorts of water sources feeding in to California)”
The environmentalists have been trying to get legislation to remove the dams on the Eel, Klamath, and one other NorCal river because they say it “hurtsL the Salmon. Left to their own devices, they would also remove the Hetch Hetchy Dam in the valley north of Yosemite which supplies much of the water to the Bay Area.
If we are ever to survive, we need to burn down our universities and execute all the so-called “professors.” They are the seed of our problems.
“(Seems I remember reading somewhere that, in recent times, the environmentalist folks have been shutting down all sorts of water sources feeding in to California)”
The environmentalists have been trying to get legislation to remove the dams on the Eel, Klamath, and one other NorCal river because they say it “hurtsL the Salmon. Left to their own devices, they would also remove the Hetch Hetchy Dam in the valley north of Yosemite which supplies much of the water to the Bay Area.
If we are ever to survive, we need to burn down our universities and execute all the so-called “professors.” They are the seed of our problems.
Kalifornia RATs have f’d up Kalifornia so bad that even Mexico wouldn’t take it back without some conditions in their favor.
REALLY?!? You're telling us there is something that is actually LEFT of Kalifornia!?! REALLY!?!
REALLY?!?
I know somewhere there has to be a map that shows Oregon ir really LEFT of Kalifornia instead of UP from Kalifornia.
SORRY, and condolences.
That is the true cause of the drought. Meanwhile, we just got 2” of rain in 36 hours. 7” last September. Colorado has not been this green in decades.
The area bounded by the 98th meridian to the east and the Cascades/Sierra Nevada in the west.
To list the rainfall in areas in the wet zone to the east of the 98th meridian, such as in reply #8, is not relevant.
In the wet zone they use Riparian water rights but in the dry zone they us prior appropriation water rights.
Carlsbad will open a desalt plant in 2016, now under construction.
As far as i know it’s the only one underway in the west.
It took 12 years to turn the shovel. They had to fight the environmentalists every step of the way through all the hearings and approvals. After the final approval (about 10 years) the same environmentalists were allowed to bring a court case making the same arguments that they made in the administrative hearings.
175 years ago it was known as THE GREAT AMERICAN DESERT. Do they think it will change now?
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