Construct a water pipeline from Great Lakes to California- No-wait, obummer will veto it coz it might spill n pollute
There was this point in the 1970s and 1980s when something of a significant nature could have been done. Environmentalism crept into the mix, and basically stopped any potential solution from occurring. I’d take a guess that by 2020...unless the drought reverses itself...it’ll be near impossible to survive in the region. Maybe it’s intentional...maybe it’s just plain stupid. But we’ll all sit and watch various big name companies pack up and leave. And by 2030, California will have half the population it presently has.
The situation in California is going to get interesting. When I was in Las Vegas not too long ago, Lake Mead was as low as I've ever seen it. Also, the Rio Grande is dry in a lot of spots.
“One of the ironies of the current drought is that urbanites who cancelled these projects never made plans either to find more water or to curb population. Take the most progressive environmentalist in Los Angeles and the Bay Area, and the likelihood is that his garden and bath water are the results of an engineering project of the sort he now opposes.”
So true.
Looks like they may be stuck with desalinization - if they want any semblance of a continuation of what they’ve come to expect as “normal”.
Same with Russia...
In Russia, a drying lake threatens an ‘era of water wars’
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, March 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In Russia’s Siberian south, near the border of Mongolia, the world’s largest freshwater lake is shrinking.
The surrounding communities depend on Lake Baikal, which contains about one-fifth of the earth’s unfrozen freshwater reserves, for their power, water and livelihoods.
But in the past four months the lake’s water level has dropped so low that experts are calling it a crisis - one they warn could lead to conflicts in Russia over water.
The lake is now at its lowest level in over 30 years and experts predict it will keep dropping until melting mountain snow and spring rains begin to recharge the lake around late April or mid-May.
The problem, scientists and environmentalists say, is a combination of climate change and growing use of hydropower.
http://www.trust.org/item/20150316123016-muqos/?source=fiOtherNews2
I wonder if there were droughts during the ice age?
It will affect all of us with higher grocery prices because a lot of our produce comes from California.
Engineer Ralph M. Parsons developed plans for the proposed North American Power And Water Alliance (NAWAPA) in the ‘60s-’70s which would distribute water to, amoung other places, the lower 48. Couldn’t get funding because the Vietnam War was a priority. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Water_and_Power_Alliance
It’s all dead on and we are living it.
“If we don’t build it they won’t come” - nope, they came anyway. For the welfare if not the jobs.
And VDH forgot one thing - they locked out a lot of the land from development with crap like Open Space districts, leading to housing costs of $1000 a square foot in Mountain View.
And a train instead of desalinization?
Insane.
5th drought in Californian -Common Sense.
The State and virtually all of its agencies are bankrupt. Those “Other People’s Money” folks have had enough of liberal redistribution and are either packing up and leaving with whatever they may still have or are taking mind bending doses of joy juice to convince themselves they still live in Paradise. In either case, the State is gradually devolving back to its natural origin, just another Mexican territory. There is no more gold left in California. Maybe we can sell it back to Mexican warlords before they steal it.
Do you need high speed rail, or water?
Im sure some of the immigrants will solve our water issues... /sarc
For most of history, homo sapiens, being as much a part of nature as sardines, and driven by the same need to survive, consider progress primarily as the duty to ensure the survival of future HUMAN generations.
Fast forward to the latter part of the 20th Century and California found itself decaying into a society which was a shadow of its former self. As its population decayed into hedonism, substance abuse and perversions, the average IQ of their "elected" officials plummeted, and thoughtful future planning disappeared.
The foresight of their great great grandparents also disappeared, and they set about dismantling the infrastructure carefully built over a hundred years to transform a semidesert into the agricultural wonder of the world. DECADES LATER, THE SAME "STONED" PEOPLE, TO ADD STUPIDITY TO ABSOLUTE IGNORANCE, decided to tax themselves hundreds of billions$ to AGAIN build the destroyed dams for the benefit of swamps,sardines, snails, snakes, bugs and bunnies!
Meanwhile, the Central Valleys of California continue turning into dustbowls and tumbleweed.
Deport all the illegals and CA US citizens will have all the water they need.