But desalinate water and provide an adequate amount of water to the populace?
Nah. Control can’t be gained by doing that.
They’re going to have a “train drain” of billions of dollars for jack sh1t.
Instead they could use a fraction of that money to build desalination plants, and then sell the salt to Northern states.
Moronic liberal idiot “legacies”.
“When the Carlsbad Desalination Project is completed this fall, it will be the largest desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere.”
“Santa Barbara owns a mothballed plant — built more than 20 years ago during another severe drought — that can turn seawater into drinking water. But it was never used beyond a tryout phase before steady rain began falling again. Now, officials are working to press the Charles E. Meyer Desalination Facility back into service as the city’s reservoirs continue to diminish.”
“Desalinated water will cost about a third more than Santa Barbara’s imported water because on top of the estimated $40 million it could take to open the plant, it could cost $5.2 million a year to keep it running.”
Word.
I don't know if it will do the job. Call me skeptical (but not cynical) But the desalination plant going up in Carlsbad is only going to provide 7% of the water needs for the San Diego area. And it's the largest plant being built in the western hemisphere. I'm not sure if desalination is the silver bullet everyone thinks it is.
I'm willing to be convinced. I'm sure we've got some hydrologist Freeper lurking around somewhere :-)
Our idiot governor and his cohorts in the legislature have ignored California’s water supply problem for many years. Rally, the only answer is to desalinize sea water. Although it is still an expensive process, it works and would meet our needs.
Instead, Brown and company have pushed through a multi-billion dollar boondoggle high speed rail system known as the train to nowhere. All the while, the state has been heading for a water supply disaster.