Any Californians here afraid of the drought problem?

[JulesMaximus]

I have cut back on watering, we bought a new HE washer this year and we are replacing our water heater. We are also taking shorter showers and making sure not to run the water any longer than necessary. We also replaced a toilet that was running and the shut off valve (I had shut the water off to that toilet but apparently it was still running). I haven't washed my car in weeks.

Not a whole fuck of a lot more I can do really.

 

[HN]

Where are the preachers blaming the drought on the "sinful ways" of Californians?

It worked for NO and Katrina, NJ and Sandy.

b/c those were issues with TOO MUCH water. we are less sinful, thus less water

 

[Imp]

Too bad desalination is so damn resource intensive and expensive. Solve that problem and never water issues again.

 

[Ns1]

Too bad desalination is so damn resource intensive and expensive. Solve that problem and never water issues again.

Sim City taught me this in like 1999.

 

[Imp]

Sim City taught me this in like 1999.

Sim City taught me that solar and wind farms were shit... But microwave and nuclear? Set it and forget it until one of them melts down or Godzilla drops by.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Too bad desalination is so damn resource intensive and expensive. Solve that problem and never water issues again.

There is a desalinization plant being built right now in Carlsbad, CA (about 10 miles from me) that is supposed to come online the end of next year. Its projected output is 50 million gallons of water a day.

 

[Exterous]

I'll be down there next week so I'll try to bring an extra bottle of water for you guys

(Oh and triple digits this weekend? Silly California - its fall now. Act like it)

 

[Ns1]

I'll be down there next week so I'll try to bring an extra bottle of water for you guys

(Oh and triple digits this weekend? Silly California - its fall now. Act like it)

That's a SoCal fall for yah, perfect beach weather.

 

[I Saw OJ]

And farmers don't necessarily have to pay for water. Many of them have wells on their property and pull as much water out of the ground as they want.

Pulling the water out of the group with either electric or diesel pumps is expensive no matter how you look at it. Sure they aren't directly paying for the water but it has it's costs.

 

[NutBucket]

Point is, a finite resource is not being regulated properly.

That's really saying a lot coming from me as I'm practically a Libertarian.

 

[Imp]

There is a desalinization plant being built right now in Carlsbad, CA (about 10 miles from me) that is supposed to come online the end of next year. Its projected output is 50 million gallons of water a day.

Haven't done the math in a while, but that's 189 Mega-Liters per day?

If 370 L/day/capita, that's ~511,000 people. I don't think that includes industrial/ commercial use.

http://www.drinktap.org/home/water-information/conservation/water-use-statistics.aspx

Crazy to think about how much money and how many plants you'd need to build to commit to desalination for all, not just domestic, use.

 

[Exterous]

That's a SoCal fall for yah, perfect beach weather.

That would be better if I had time for the beach

 

[Ruptga]

There is a desalinization plant being built right now in Carlsbad, CA (about 10 miles from me) that is supposed to come online the end of next year. Its projected output is 50 million gallons of water a day.

A quick search showed residents in (pre-drought) Sacramento were using 217 gallons of water per person per day, so that works out to almost a quarter million people's water needs. With 38 million people in the state, that's... a drop in the bucket.

 

[Slew Foot]

A quick search showed residents in (pre-drought) Sacramento were using 217 gallons of water per person per day, so that works out to almost a quarter million people's water needs. With 38 million people in the state, that's... a drop in the bucket.

add to that residential use is only 20% of total water use

 

[JulesMaximus]

Haven't done the math in a while, but that's 189 Mega-Liters per day?

If 370 L/day/capita, that's ~511,000 people. I don't think that includes industrial/ commercial use.

http://www.drinktap.org/home/water-information/conservation/water-use-statistics.aspx

Crazy to think about how much money and how many plants you'd need to build to commit to desalination for all, not just domestic, use.

A quick search showed residents in (pre-drought) Sacramento were using 217 gallons of water per person per day, so that works out to almost a quarter million people's water needs. With 38 million people in the state, that's... a drop in the bucket.

Yeah, maybe we should just pray for rain... isn't that what they do in Texas?

 

[Ruptga]

Yeah, maybe we should just pray for rain... isn't that what they do in Texas?

Probably, butt fuck them. I'm just saying that things aren't going to get much better very quickly. 51M gallons per day sounds like a shitton, but it pales in comparison to the scale of the problem. Still, that plant could probably serve a million people so long as they're mindful of water use.

 

[olds]

It's going to be a bad year next year if we don't get rain and snow this winter.