Don’t count on vegetable and fruit prices to be dropping in the next few years. I’m sure all the Hollywood elite will be letting their acres of grass go dormant.
For First Time In History, California Governor Orders Mandatory Water Cuts Amid “Unprecedented, Dangerous Situation”
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/01/2015 14:32 -0400
Amid the “cruelest winter ever,” with the lowest snowpack on record, and with 98.11% of the state currently in drouight conditions, California Governor Jerry Brown orders mandatory water cuts in California for the first time in history…
Lowest snowpack on record…
98.11% Drought…
And finally some action…
Gov. Jerry Brown orders mandatory water cuts in California after snowpack shrinks to record low http://wsj.com
As ABC reports,
California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced a set of mandatory water conservation measures today, as the state continues to struggle with a prolonged drought that has lasted for more than four years.
“Today we are standing on dry grass where there should be five feet of snow,” Brown said in a statement after visiting a manual snow survey in the Sierra Nevadas. “This historic drought demands unprecedented action.”
For the first time in the state’s history, the governor has directed the State Water Resources Control Board to implement mandatory water reductions across California, in an effort to reduce water usage by 25 percent. The measures include replacing 50 million square feet of lawns throughout the state with drought-tolerant landscaping, banning the watering of grass on public street medians, requiring agricultural water users to report their water use to state regulators, and requiring large landscapes such as campuses, golf courses and cemeteries to make significant cuts in water use.
The governor’s announcement comes just a few weeks after NASA’s top water scientist, Jay Famiglietti, declared in a Los Angeles Times op-ed that California only had a year’s-worth of water supply left in its reservoirs.
The last four years have been the driest in California’s recorded history. As of March 24, more than 98 percent of California is suffering from abnormally dry conditions, with 41.1 percent in an exceptional drought, according the U.S. Drought Monitor, which estimates that more than 37 million Californians have been affected by the drought. The state’s snowpack, which is largely responsible for feeding the state’s reservoirs, has been reduced to 8 percent of its historical average, and in some areas in the Central Valley the land is sinking a foot a year because of over-pumping of groundwater for agriculture.
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“We are in an unprecedented, very serious situation,” the governor said in his January statement. “At some point, we have to learn to live with nature, we have to get on nature’s side and not abuse the resources that we have.”
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And as we noted previously, while all eyes are focused on dry river beds and fields of dust, the maountainous ski resort areas are seing their economies devastated. As Bloomberg reports,
Last year Vail reported a 28 percent drop in skier visits at its California resorts, and the company warned investors that its financial results would be worse than anticipated.
Those numbers reflect what could be a larger contraction of Tahoe’s ski industry. Seasonal and part-time hiring has slid 27 percent over the last three years, according Patrick Tierney, a professor of recreation, parks, and tourism at San Francisco State University, and spending on ski-related services has decreased from $717 million a year to $428 million. An older analysis by the San Francisco Reserve Bank showed that the value of resort-area homes in places like Tahoe can depend heavily on climate; even a 2-degree increase could cut home values by more than 50 percent.
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The drought is getting worse… not better.
Yup. The Rockies are a true mountain range. No low valleys that snake all the way through.
If you think food is high now wait a while, by the end of the year you will see beef become a luxury for the folks who still have a decent income.
Would someone who lives in Cali pipe in as to what your water bills are currently, I am curious.
“Yup. The Rockies are a true mountain range.”
Dick. lol
I didn’t know the HIGHWAY crossed at that altitude.
Donner Pass
Part of the Sierra Nevadas, around 7000 feet. A different route in, more southerly, but same problems more or less.
No easy way in from the East, and the north is not much better. Any pipeline efforts would be massively expensive.
I missed EC ‘s answer that his water bill is $50……….which is $20 LESS than my water bill each month for two people in an area with too much precip. We have not watered our lawn or washed a car at home for years because our water bills are so high. Same in Nashville and other nearby cities. WTF????
Actually most months my water bill would be $30 higher.
Ailing ski resorts and a lack of snow pack? Get some fucking snow guns. Any other problems you need me to solve?
CA has been taken over by the far left. I am no friend of the republicrats, but one party left wing corrupt politicians are ruining the state. They have enabled three distinct economies. Think selling single cigarettes in NYC. There is one heavily regulated, over-taxed, struggling small business world where you work your ass off and feel many times like you are spinning your wheels. You can make it, but it is HARD work. Insurance is a killer. One journeyman carpenter without adding any overhead and profit to his wages is $68.31 out the door. Just health & welfare alone is $6.10 per hour!!! CA politicians do not give an F about small business.
Economy #2 is the 1% who make big bucks (Big Business/tech/entertainment) they have there Bel Air, Malibu, Manhattan Beach, Newport Beach mansions and are all far left. I got mine F-you.
Economy #3 is all black market. No taxes, all cash and slave labor. The illegal alien population lives here and their own people take advantage of them. “Coyotes” run this world. They will even work on government construction projects. They will pay their slave labor correctly on the paycheck and then make the laborer cash the check and give the coyote a kick back. So he his still only making $10 per hour.
So yes, the “white man” that is not connected is being pushed out. But watch out, because what I just described is coming to a town/city near you.
California has about 1200 golf courses and 1.2 million HOME pools.
And some of the shiniest, cleanest, cars I have ever seen on roads.
You want to take water from the heart of the country to preserve tropical living in a desert ecology?
We have to be some of the stupidest humans to ever inhabit this earth. As for understanding our place within the world, I would guess the lowest IQ’d Aboriginal would far surpass the experts and geniuses flowing out of our “higher” learning schools.
If the US can’t kill the world through war and death, we surely will do it via crony capitalism, do-gooders who haven’t a real clue, and an over-reaching government choosing political clout over reality-based situations.
And @Bea, contrary to popular belief, and being backed up by more and more studies, people NEED to eat beef to be healthy.
Every single part of our body NEEDS the saturated fat, conjugated linoelic acid, and nutrients that beef provides better than most other meats.
Dr. Kellogg may have been looking for health (and to enrich his family’s fortune) through processed grains, instead what he found was the guarantee that 70% of us would be sick and our primary symptom would be excess fat that will lead to all sorts of other health problems.
There are NO “healthy” carbs once you are ingesting more than 30% of your diet from them, well, as long as you are also eating 30-40% fatty, natural, foods.
I was kind of hoping California would drop off into the ocean before they start sucking water from Oregon.
It makes my head spin to calculate the energy usage for pumping water up over an 8600′ elevation, in addition to running a pipeline 2000 miles long. What, we have to provide the electricity as well as the water to do this, for people who have $800K to pay for a shanty that isn’t good enough to house the stray dogs in Detroit?
The only way the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bureau of Land Management, with all their socialistic programs for the big landholders and ranchers, were ever possible, was with the taxing power of the federal government.
Methinks we really would be better off breaking up into 4 or 5 separate countries at this point.
Sell the farmers the treated water from the treatment plant. Drip irrigation would be a must. Golf courses as well.
Sell the food to Californian’s with a new label “Guaranteed to be 100% Green: Grown with Native Californian Organic Waste”
Nothin turn’s grass tall and green faster than Shit water!
I think piping water over the Rockies would not be the most efficient route. Columbia water could be routed through central Oregon and discharged into Goose Lake which when it was full fed the Pit River which eventually fills Shasta Lake and the Sacramento River. I’m trying to find the maximum elevation for that route. I know Goose Lake is at around 4700ft ASL. Summer and Abert Lake could also be used as storage/lifter stations. There are some passes through the Cascades that are right around 4000ft ASL. The best intake sites would be below the Bonneville Dam. However most of this is just mental masturbation. Imagine the environmental impact studies that would have to be conducted before even scooping a bucket full of dirt? They can’t even build a fucking new I-5 bridge between Oregon and Washington without wasting 200 million on studies that led to nothing. http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2014/04/columbia_river_crossing_tab_ap.html
How has no one mention the record high and low snowpack years are only 6 years apart. Lot of fluctuation and variables tucked into that one little factoid.
Given that most of the water projects that make modern-day CA, and the southwest in general, possible, are heavily funded by the Federal government and would not be possible without that funding, are we justified in asking the rest of us to fund anymore projects AT ALL?
As it is, water is already being diverted from the Columbia to CA. And before that, the Hoover Dam was originally built for the benefit of CA- Los Angeles has the first and largest claim on Lake Mead water.
The plain fact is that the west is intractably and incurably arid, and in its native state could not support one 100th the population living and farming there. And it sure as hell cannot support wet-climate crops, and tropical-rainforest landscaping for your palatial 6 acre estate in Rancho Mirage.
What’s more, there is increasing evidence that the past 100 years have been anomalously wet in the west, and that extreme drought such as the region is experiencing now, is the norm, not a rare event. Archeological meteorologists have pieced together evidence that indicates that the region was in deep, prolonged megadrought for much of the past 1000 years at least, and that these prolonged droughts were the cause of the collapse of at least one major Native civilization there. We have based our ideas of what constitutes “normal” precipitation on records that go back less than 150 years, and we now twig that those years have been rather exceptional.
We have hit the limit of what we can do to water California and the rest of the arid west without absolutely destroying the rest of the country. Shall the rest of us be subjected to water deficits and the destruction of our towns, cities, and farms, to keep property prices in CA at nosebleed levels, and enable people like Al Gore to run the fountains in front of his 12,000 sq ft Santa Barbara mansion?
What needs to happen is for us to start living within our means, in every way. That means that CA needs to depopulate back to the level of sustainability- of the water they can provide with locally funded water projects, and those they’ve already mooched off the rest of us, as are so many expensive benefits of other types bestowed on various groups in our population, that they did nothing to earn.
So, if you want sunshine badly enough to do with one shower a week and like living 6 to a one bed apt that costs $2800 a month, stay in CA. But if you want water, move the hell out and betake yourself to one of the dozens of reasonably priced Midwestern, Southeastern, or MidAtlantic towns and cities that are well supplied with it, and where you can also get one hell of a nice place to live for less than $200K.
Modern Civil also tends to be rather foolish. I’m not from CA but I’m guessing its no different that the rest of the midwest.
It rains – it hits roofs, roads and other hardsurface and 90% of it is piped to a storm sewer leading directly to a river that leads directly to the ocean.
The trend is for more underground storage and dispersal. This is more intelligent as it recharges the local groundwater table.
Only issue is pollution caused by man and how to keep it out of the system.
” Shall the rest of us be subjected to water deficits and the destruction of our towns, cities, and farms, to keep property prices in CA at nosebleed levels, and enable people like Al Gore to run the fountains in front of his 12,000 sq ft Santa Barbara mansion? ”
That’s pretty much mobocracy, errr I mean demonocracy, no, wait, uh, dumbocracy in action! You only need 51% of the voters to support you for a royal ass-raping of the other 49%, and of course 50% of the population is below average intelligence, so a few sociopaths/demons/whatever leading 51% by the nose will put things on a path to self destruction.
The Founders of the Republic knew this, which is why our intended form of government is NOT a democracy. The republican structure and bulwarks against mob rule have been slowly but continuously eroded to where we now have a malignant hybrid form of rule where a tiny oligarchy runs things for their own benefit, and uses the theatrics of democracy to bless any issues where they are worried about popular revolt.
The whole thing has become illegitimate. Ignore it as much as you can.
When it comes to water in CA there is actually plenty of water if it is used properly. The Sierra Nevada mountains are normally a treasure of water in a “normal” year. Many of the passes in the Sierra average 35-45″ of water in a “normal” winter. That is 35-45′ of SNOW. Water management is the problem. Yes, there are droughts. Drought are common everywhere. The reason there are such vast deserts in CA is because of the coastal mountains and the Sierra. The storms come off the Pacific hit the coastal range and dump rain. The storms then hit the Sierra and DUMP major amounts of snow. The Central Valley where all the agriculture is is dry because it is in what many call a “rain-shadow”. It can be 75 degrees in someplace like Fresno and sunny and meanwhile the mountains are socked in and 4 feet of snow is falling. Trust me it is a management problem not a water problem. As I recall just recently there was a midwest drought and the shipping on the Mississippi river was in jeopardy. Here is what I found: “The worst US drought in 50 years is making the mighty Mississippi River dry up and could curb shipping there altogether,”.
So droughts are common EVERYWHERE in the world. CA, yes it is full of deserts, but it is also full of a Mountain range that gets plenty of water to supply the states needs. NOW the people just need to figure out how to manage its resources. Have any of you ever been to Yosemite in the spring? The amount of water coming down the falls is incredible, just not in a drought. There are many, many years you cannot drive over Tioga pass (near Yosemite) until late June or July because of the mountains of snow. This year it was never closed. A friend of mine biked over Tioga last week it was never closed this winter.
I agree with Llpoh. Let the market work and we will not suffer through another drought in the same manner. Get rid of ALL the subsidies and BS and lets see what happens. The opposite obviously isn’t working.
Why your water bill is about to go up
By Charles Passy
Published: Apr 2, 2015 3:23 p.m. ET
Could the record drought in California result in a hefty hike in your water bill even if you don’t live anywhere near the Golden State?
Public policy experts say increases are a likely and much-needed measure in California as a way to curb demand for water. But they say the hikes could spread to other states, including those not facing a drought situation, as a way to encourage conservation in general.
“California could be the green guinea pig,” says Matthew E. Kahn, a professor at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs.
The call for higher rates in California and elsewhere is not necessarily new. Public policy experts have long noted that Americans pay some of the lowest prices in the world for water — Australians pay more than twice as much, for example, according to Global Water Intelligence, a company that tracks the international water industry.
The reason is partly because the American government has heavily subsidized the water infrastructure — meaning everything from pipelines to treatment facilities — and partly because Americans have come to see water as a “free” resource, says Peter Beland, an editor with Global Water Intelligence.
On top of that, elected officials have been hesitant to boost prices because of the political price they might pay: “No one wants to be known as the mayor who raised water rates,” says Beland.
But the days of free (or cheap) water may be over simply because the shortage is becoming so critical in some parts of the country. (In addition to California, Texas has faced severe drought conditions.) And standard conservation measures, such as limiting the days when lawns can be watered or cars can be washed, may not be enough to remedy the situation. California Gov. Jerry Brown just ordered mandatory water reductions of 25%, but has not provided details on how the cuts would be implemented.
Ultimately, experts say if the hikes come, they will be more significant in drought-ridden states. Indeed, some water agencies in Northern California have already gotten a jump on things, boosting prices by as much as 27% — a figure that translates into a $200 annual hike for the average household in that part of the country.
Beland says if hikes follow in other parts of the country, they are likely to be much smaller percentage-wise. But the situation in California may nevertheless prompt an increase of one kind or another as awareness of our threatened water supply grows: “I think it’s a case of ‘Don’t waste a disaster,’” he says.
There’s also another way that the California drought is likely to affect Americans in the wallet. Food prices could potentially rise, too, since California supplies the nation with everything from avocados to almonds. And while the recent water restrictions imposed by Gov. Brown won’t affect farmers, the drought is still making matters difficult. Some farmers have let their land go barren and have chopped down less productive nut trees, according to NBC News.
Moreover, a drought-weakened California economy can affect the overall American economy because companies have continually looked to the western part of the country as a source of growth, explains UCLA’s Kahn.
The California drought, he says, “is a national issue.”
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“Normal” water content for Mammoth Pass @ 8,900′ elevation
MONTH WATER CONTENT % OF APRIL 1
January 1 19.3 44
January 15 22.7 54
February 1 27.3 64
February 15 30.9 72
March 1 34.7 82
March 15 38.1 89
April 1 41.9 100
This year: Depth 3.5 Water content 1.5″ vs normal of 42″ of water. So yes there is a drought, but it piss poor management.
From
(Good site for west coast non-politicized weather information)
Mammoth Pass:
The DWP snow survey was completed yesterday April 1st. It is as dismal as it has ever been historically. This is “The driest winter on record” as reported by DWP. The manual measurements taken yesterday at Mammoth Pass showed a water content of 1.4 inches or 3% of the April 1st norm of 43.5 inches of water in the snow. Mammoth Lakes itself had 0 and so 0% of normal. The Minarets 2 site had an 1 inch. So the Mammoth Lakes Area averaged .8 inches or 3% of normal. The average of all snow courses south to Cotton Wood Lakes, down though the Southern Sierra was not much better, with an average of 4% of normal over-all.
NASA has indicated that this particular 4 year drought is a once in a 1000 year event because of its severity.
– See more at:
If we are posting non-politicized data sets, here is one for the Pacific Northwest. A lot of historic low numbers. http://data.nwac.us/CLISNO/CLISNO.TXT
I’m in the pump business. For fun:
Acre/ft = 43,560cubicfeet = 325,851 gal.
So say we want to pump 350,00 gallons per minute.
1000 miles of 16ft pipe (biggest pipe calcs I have) = friction loss of .014 ft per 100ft of pipe.
Velocity is 3.8 ft/second which is good, not too fast, not too slow.
Or 739 ft of friction loss. The mountains would be a wash, because what you need to pump up, would come back down, but pipes would have to be air tight. Although a major hurdle would be to actually get the water up 7000ft the first time. (not going to happen with a pump)
So, ready for this? 350,000 gallons x 739ft divided by pump eff. (assume .80) x 3960 = crap! my calculator won’t even go that high, keeps giving me an error, but I think it’s 1.28 Trillion HP.
So let’s set our sights a little smaller:
200,000 gpm in a 16ft pipe = .005 ft loss per hundred ft.
Or 264 ft loss in 1000 miles.
So 200,000gpm x 264ft / .8 x 3960 = 16,666 HP.
Don’t know of a pump ever built that big, it may exist though. So we do 10 pumps each to do 20,000 gpm, being 1666 HP ea.. But obviously, they would all have to be on at the same time. Now that can be done by a few pump companies. Only about 2M a copy.
Now we could do an even bigger pipe, etc…. etc…… Bottom line though is mega HP is required.
What we have here is a vector problem, magnitude, and direction. This situation requires urgent legislative action prohibiting brain dead Libtards from being able to exit the State in any direction other than due East.
My water bill last month was $1.42. Not a typo. One dollar and forty two cents. They tack on a water service charge of $14.92 which pays for the infrastructure. We have some of the best water in the country coming from deep, ice age aquifers so clean that our water is not even treated. It tastes fantastic too and makes excellent beer straight out of the tap! We don’t even have water treatment plants except to treat waste water before discharging into the river.
I think it’s bullshit that we already drain the Colorado River completely desert fucking dry before it reaches the ocean. I think that piping water into Kali from anywhere is bullshit too. However, I don’t think it would take that much energy to do so. There are pumping systems that use gravity to work. Getting the initial “pipe full” up the east slope would take some energy but once it was moving down slope on the west side, that energy could be used to pull water up the east side. If the intake elevation on the east side were high enough above sea level it might not take any additional energy at all to keep it moving once started. Just like siphoning gas out of your car.
Leftifornia’s New State Water Motto :
If it’s yellow let it mello.
If it’s brown flush it down !
Looks like Llpoh is going to get it up the backside paying for water in the outback, if you reference the chart Admin posted.
Truth is my water is not expensive, it’s the raping we get each month on the sewerage charge. Whatever the water costs they triple the bill for the sewerage amount…ouch!!
That all started when Violia Water took over our water management which is a total rip.
Beware NY and NJ as I noticed last November that you are lined up for the Violia assraping.
Violia Water is part of a French company that has been pirating money off the sheep since the days of Napoleon.
Water bill for the wife & I averages about $45, of course that’s for sewer as well. We don’t have a lawn but do have bubblers for trees/bushes. @Buckhed: That may be a funny saying but I’m disappointed Gov Brown didn’t go there in his speech; he should also have put the idea of using a brick in your toilet tank to displace water. Personally I think watering golf courses should be banned along with Nestle “stealing” our water for bottling. Let them take water from a place where it’s in abundance. And the idea of growing alfalfa & rice in CA is just stupid. I can understand the almond growers problem because it takes years to develop the trees. Same with vineyards.
Really, we need desalination plants all along the coast. Wave power could be harnessed to turn generators for power. But like what happened in Santa Barbara, even if such plants could pass environmental review by the time they were due to go into production the crisis would be over and the would start selling off plant equipment.
It’s either the desalination route or massive cloud seeding & HAARP. I understand the Chinese have some experience with the former.
@sensetti: I think you mean due west. Nevada and Arizona have enough problems already.
Llpoh says: I80 excedes 8600 feet. That is a pretty high valley, Stuck. You got to go over the Rockies. Not the peaks, but they are high even in the “valleys”.
I believe Stuck was referring to I-8, it doesn’t get steep until just before San Diego. It’s actually below sea level at El Centro. We can build the pipeline from New Orleans to LA following the El Paso gas line. Yeah, baby.
Quite a thread. Once again, I must ride to the rescue for solving California’s water issue, particularly the numerous comments suggesting piping water from the Columbia or Mississippi rivers and other lame brained ideas.
Ho, hum. The answer, short term, is two words. Lake Tahoe.
In terms of water volume, Lake Tahoe is the 6th largest lake in the U.S. behind the 5 Great Lakes. There is enough fresh water in the lake to supply the entire U.S. with water for 5 years assuming there is NO replenishment, which is impossible with all the snowfall around the lake. And the lake sits at an altitude of 6,225 feet. Might be some pumping uphill involved, but it would be a big, gravity-fed drop down to where the water is needed.
The big loser in my scenario MIGHT be Reno, Nevada. Might. Why must I continually bear the burden for solving big issues on this site? The weight on my shoulders is staring to make them sore.
This 25% reduction in water usage sounds fairly straight forward and at first glance appears simple enough. But like all simplistic Government proclamations actual implication can become quite complex.
Here’s just one example:
I switched to drought tolerant landscaping more than 30 years ago. It does fine with just what it gets from rain. My neighbors have lawn in their front yards and some in their back yards also.
The way I understand it, they will be using 2014 water usage as a reference to calculate the 25% reduction to determine what you will be allowed to consume.
So now take my next door neighbor. Throughout 2014 he used to run his sprinklers on an automatic timer and they would come on at night. He had them set wrong and they would stay on so long to where not only was the lawn drenched, the sidewalk was drenched, and water would be flowing down the street. He has since fixed it but that is what his reference point will be set at so for him to meet the 25% reduction will be no big deal.
Then someone like myself that has already long ago made the logical changes to minimize water usage, another 25% reduction will be difficult. I use water to shower, wash clothes and dishes, and flush the toilet. That’s about it. What do I cut back on, stop taking showers?
So the result is that those that have already done the most to conserve will in essence be punished for having done so and those who in the past have been the most wasteful will have the easiest time.
Anon above be Me
SSS said:
” The weight on my shoulders is staring to make them sore.”
I suspect the soreness comes from being humped over administering your own congratulatory blowjob.
(yeah, I know that wasn’t nice but at least I didn’t post a pic!)
Wrong once again on the solution. Each states population and industry should scale back to live within its means. As others have pointed out, farmers in other states are paid not to farm. Let those areas pick up the slack and spread the wealth around a bit. Kommiefornia can transition to growing agave and aloe vera and other dry climate crops. Continually maintaining the status quo is just kicking the can down the road.
I think the rise in prices for fresh fruits and veggies will inspire more people to grown their own which is a good thing in countless ways.
–actual implementation can be quite complex.
Llpoh ain’t taking it up the ass, baby! Llpoh is energy and water independent. Gots my own water. Gots my own sun and batteries and generator. Gots me a septic tank.
Ain’t even hooking in a phone line – using mobile net.
No bills to the water, electric, or sewer people.
My bills will be property tax. And not a fucking thing more.
Yeah baby!
So Bea, keep dreaming. Llpoh is done taking it up the ass. Some other fuckers can feed the beast.
I did mention no personal taxes too, right?
SSS, about that Lake Tahoe water… seems like a lot of other people have thought of it. Tahoe is the 6th biggest lake in the country, just behind the Great Lakes, with 39 trillion gallons of water, dwarfing the Lake Mead and Lake Powell reservoirs (about 9 trillion gallons each)
I like the idea much better than I like any thought of tapping the Mississippi or the Great Lakes, but there remain the usual obstacles, like the cost of the pipeline. However, the bigger obstacle is that Nevada has the largest legal claim on that water and is in severe drought to. There is vehement opposition to any plan to divert that water to any part of CA that doesn’t already have a legal claim, and I can well imagine conflicts like the early CA “water wars” C 1903, when Mulholland was building the original Los Angeles Aquaduct, that dried up Owens Valley.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article2591763.html
The problem is not technological, it’s that the main water users in California are a cancer (the coastal cities) and a vampire (irrigation in the central valley). Any fix will only exacerbate the problem – not that a fix is at all likely.
In the You-Can’t-Make-This-Shit-Up Department …..
Amid California’s record drought, the City of Dublin is breaking ground on a massive new $35 million water park.
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http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/04/02/dublin-residents-question-timing-of-building-new-water-park/
@Asig, that is the way it ALWAYS goes. Those that thought they were ahead of the curve are punished, like the millions of small business health insured. We took that law directly up our asses, while more people are getting “free” shit and the big unions and luxury policies continue to not shoulder the burden while demanding even more from others.
Why would this be any different?
Ed Begley is going to be screwed hard, that kinda makes me chuckle.
Here in the Great Lakes State, my bill has doubled in 10 years, we are awaiting another 7% increase voted on by Detroit (to help pay for the “poor” that can’t pay their lower rates), and it is non-stop increases. We pay around $50 a month for water and sewer, but I know that due to my son moving out, and my change of shower schedule, that we are using much, much, less water than we were when my bill was last $25 a month. For the average home it has had to be more painful.
Bureaucracy and greed are pretty horrific things. Well, for us, not so bad for all them.
Sure, Not:
The coastal cities are not the problem, not by a long shot. Even their swimming pools and golf courses are very small users relative to the big users.
80% of all water use in CA is by agriculture and industry, often to grow wet-climate or low-value crops whose prices don’t begin to pay for the water used to grow them, and that would be much more easily grown in wet-climate states like LA, MS, AL, GA, and others where entire counties are lying fallow, and where farming operations are paid NOT to grow these crops.
It’s tiresome to hear the cities blamed for everything, for most of the taxes paid in CA are paid by city areas, while Western agriculture is so steeply subsidized, that it is the biggest welfare queen in the country, second only to the bloated, inefficient, money-guzzling, unaccountable “defense” industry.
Nice compilation of images from the CA drought: http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/californias-drought/