Rich Californians balk at limits: ‘We’re not all equal when it comes to water’
And so it gets worse. They will be using this to exert control over people all over the place down there. Hopefully the Climate Changers are right and they get rains like they did in 97 and can end this.
The answer from ricoville was Goverrnment Grants and the Sacramento watershed. Looters and Moochers and that is exactly what has and is happening.
Bringing in water by tanker truck means from the Colorado or Sacramento watershed. Southern California has enough for maybe 300,000 people on a good day and imports everything else. Currently they are building two rather huge tunnels to pipeline it from the Sacramento Delta area - without regard to anybody else but there golf courses and swimming pools.
Maybe they are using obama bucks?
It's one thing to give advice from a position of cover; it's something else entirely to risk it's merit at the point of attack.
Note it is always "working toward" because the plans never actually would achieve the goal.
Jan
Of course, that would rely on INDUSTRY, which I am sure would really not sit well with your hyperlib constituents down there...
What pisses me off... to no end... is while we are asked, pleaded, demanded, and legislated to do with less of the resources we have, and even some locales up here will fine those with green lawns, they feel it's their RIGHT as Southern Californians to pump water into their lawns, run it down their drains, and wash their cars, and then tell us how dare we ask them to --their-- part...
One town decided to allow watering for the west side on even days and the right side of town on odd numbered days. thus cutting the number of lawns in half. It worked too. The water system could handle it - but the total use went up. City Council said it was the best move available as the water flowed within 90 percent of capacity instead of the usual 60% and the income from water bills gave the town more money. The other plan was watering only between ten pm and four am. My friends house was on the dividing line and I had timers and pop up sprinkler heads. He watered every day. but used less water because he set the timers from 10PM to four AM West side midnight to four then 10 to midnight next say the reverse. Each side got watered twice every day and the water soaked in before the sun came up.
Not all were that smart.The Oregon National Guard sent out a directive letting all the lawns at the armories ''brown'' except the State Guard HQ which was "watered every day to represent the Guard state wide." State government bought into that so guess where all the Willamette River watershed water went? If there was a way to cheat on a law and look stupid at the same time the doer probably worked for state government.
What energy could do this? Nuclear power. But of course the land of fruits and nuts (hey I live here and probably qualify for at least one of those) can't seem to abide that. The entire world is anti-nuclear power with few exceptions. This despite it having a three orders of magnitude better safety rating in terms of death/GwH than coal and two orders of magnitude better than oil and gas.
And that is with designs you can actually get licensed in the West restricted to designs previously in operation. We know how to build nuclear plants that are extremely safe and would have sailed through even a Fukushima class confluence of disasters with ease. They would also produce 5% or less as much nuclear "waste".
But I digress. The real point is that the real problem is government interference in the free market and anti-technological progress memetic warfare.
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They live in a desert.
Wake up and smell the cactus.
Or move to a more free market location than CA.
“It’s slowly becoming the land of one group telling everybody else how they think everybody should live their lives.”
someone hasn't been paying attention, has he?
on this animal farm. -- j
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As to water, it is not a supply problem, but a distribution problem. So we need some pipelines and canals and tunnels.
The next move will be forced resettlement to protect the wild and scenic desert lands and some endangered species or another.
The whole thing will have to be rebuilt of course so it looks prehistorically natural.
That should take care of Southern California.