California Drought: How Stupid Can We Be?

[WelshBloke]

I know this. I watched something on Netflix about California's water supply. Am I an expert? You bet your ass I am.

 

[sandorski]

Late to the party, looks like everyone has left..., but here's a report on it.

California farms turn to drilling

 

[Howard]

i'll guess just about every city imports its water. there's no way 600k - 30m people are satisfying their water demand with what's directly under them.

I doubt Toronto and Vancouver do.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Isin't there any rivers or lakes in california? Why can't they just get water from there? Even a giant 10 foot pipe is not going to make a river run out. Most rivers eventually flow into the ocean anyway, so it's not going to hurt anything to sip water from it if it's done right so that you're not just completely blocking it or something.

 

[Ns1]

Isin't there any rivers or lakes in california? Why can't they just get water from there? Even a giant 10 foot pipe is not going to make a river run out. Most rivers eventually flow into the ocean anyway, so it's not going to hurt anything to sip water from it if it's done right so that you're not just completely blocking it or something.

I'm pretty sure it's in this very thread that an article states the Colorado no longer empties out into the gulf because there's not enough water.

also, all of our lakes/reservoirs are being depleted.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'm pretty sure it's in this very thread that an article states the Colorado no longer empties out into the gulf because there's not enough water.

also, all of our lakes/reservoirs are being depleted.

Seems kinda crazy but I guess it is what it is. Just used to seeing lakes and rivers being more than abundant where I am. I guess at some point water streams do run out so probably what happened there.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Seems kinda crazy but I guess it is what it is. Just used to seeing lakes and rivers being more than abundant where I am. I guess at some point water streams do run out so probably what happened there.

CA has several aquifers up north that get piped down to the south, but they're extraordinarily low due to the drought.

why there haven't been any water restrictions i have no idea. of course, half of LA businesses would shut down (so damn many car washes)

 

[Ns1]

CA has several aquifers up north that get piped down to the south, but they're extraordinarily low due to the drought.

why there haven't been any water restrictions i have no idea. of course, half of LA businesses would shut down (so damn many car washes)

srsly, shut off the sprinklers at least.

 

[zinfamous]

Isin't California near the sea? Why don't they just desalt water? It could practically be done with just the sun especially considering how hot it is there.

I don't really have pity for them though, they chose to live in a place that has no natural fresh water source and where the weather is inhospitable.

Though even here they do have water bans at times where you can't water your lawn or can only do it on certain days/times, but that's to ensure the water tower stays full in case there are fires. The fire dept needs full pressure for their hoses. Have not heard of such ban in a while though. They've been doing major upgrades to the treatment plant so maybe they just have so much excess that they don't have to worry anymore.

You live in a frozen tundra that even your God spurns. And you live this life terrified of gays and books and science.

I really have no sympathy for you.

 

[zinfamous]

srsly, shut off the sprinklers at least.

I've done my part. I haven't washed my car in 5 months.

:salutes: :eagles: :guns: :flag clasped in eagle talons:

 

[Ruptga]

Being ignorant is ok, in the sense that everyone's ignorant about something, but that's no excuse to go rambling on out of your ass. I'd say it's common sense, but there's really nothing common about sense.

 

[who?]

California has watersheds up north that fill reservoirs and that water is piped to the LA and San Francisco bay areas but I don't think that involves aquifers.

 

[moonbogg]

I didn't know how big the great lakes actually were. Holy shit. Each one is the size of an entire state? Can that be real? Damn son, we are water rich. Pipe that over here.
Also, there are no restrictions on water in CA because the problem is over stated. Its a bunch of horseshit.

 

[IronWing]

I didn't know how big the great lakes actually were. Holy shit. Each one is the size of an entire state? Can that be real? Damn son, we are water rich. Pipe that over here.

As a former governor of Wisconsin put it "Californians can have all the Wisconsin water they want. They just have to take it home in 12oz cans."

 

[zinfamous]

If this problem has existed for hundreds of years, yet the people in charge (libtards) keep ignoring it, then who is to blame?

As long as I have benough alive cali has been in a drought. Instead of getting serious, they focus on other things. And still now there is no sense of urgency.

Let them shrivel up and die if they can't fix it. They've had at least 300 years to address it.

Dude, the fume hood you installed in your snazzy new workshop isn't working.

 

[NuclearNed]

Last week I drove I5 from Sacramento to northern CA to climb Mt Shasta. The entire state is crunchy & brown. The mountain had almost no snow pack... we were told that it had 11' less snow than it should have this time of year. It was hot & dry even at high elevations, so what snow pack was left was visibly diminishing from day to day. It made for difficult climbing. I probably couldn't count the number of times that I or one of the guys on my team commented about how one cigarette butt would ignite the entire state.

 

[Guurn]

The great lakes refill incredibly slowly, they replace less 1% of their volume per year with precipitation. They would be a terrible resource to pipe around the country. You would end up with an Aral sea situation.

 

[Ns1]

Last week I drove I5 from Sacramento to northern CA to climb Mt Shasta. The entire state is crunchy & brown. The mountain had almost no snow pack... we were told that it had 11' less snow than it should have this time of year. It was hot & dry even at high elevations, so what snow pack was left was visibly diminishing from day to day. It made for difficult climbing. I probably couldn't count the number of times that I or one of the guys on my team commented about how one cigarette butt would ignite the entire state.

obligatory:

 

[Ns1]

The great lakes refill incredibly slowly, they replace less 1% of their volume per year with precipitation. They would be a terrible resource to pipe around the country. You would end up with an Aral sea situation.

holy shit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea

 

[K1052]

The great lakes refill incredibly slowly, they replace less 1% of their volume per year with precipitation. They would be a terrible resource to pipe around the country. You would end up with an Aral sea situation.

They are already protected by the Great Lakes Compact, which includes Canada. One WI city has been working for a number of years to get lake water but they are just outside the watershed boundaries and approval, even for them, looks very unlikely.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

Late to the party, looks like everyone has left..., but here's a report on it.

California farms turn to drilling

I live about 20 miles north of the town of Mendota pictured in the report where they filmed the food lines. It's pretty bad here. My department is currently being tasked with drafting an emergency ordinance regarding the selling of water outside of our county to others and to also encourage sustainable groundwater mining. 2 farmers, along with help from the BLM, decided to sell about 22k acre/feet to another water district up north and caused a shit storm here.

Stanislaus County, just north of where I'm at, is currently being sued over permitting 300+ wells in the last year alone I believe. The drought here in the valley is both political and real and there's no end in sight. Rain season here usually doesn't start until Nov. so we're screwed at least until then. Not to mention temps are 100+. I think we hit about 110 for a day or two a few weeks ago. Come Aug., I think it'll avg. about 105. Fun stuff....

 

[Ns1]

srsly, if everyone just starts digging wells the groundwater supply will end up like an underground lake mead.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Since they are making ever more movies using ever increasing amounts of CGI, there isn't anything of value left in California. let them drink a hearty glass of <cough> dirt.

Actually, they should have followed Lex Luther's plan to detonate several nukes under the San Andreas fault whereby creating a whole new waterfront.

 

[Ns1]

Since they are making ever more movies using ever increasing amounts of CGI, there isn't anything of value left in California. let them drink a hearty glass of <cough> dirt.

Actually, they should have followed Lex Luther's plan to detonate several nukes under the San Andreas fault whereby creating a whole new waterfront.

From page one...

 

[NoTine42]

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014...uple-getting-mixed-messages-about-brown-lawn/

...and because Cali can't make any sense, one couple is being forced to water their brown lawn because being responsible (and not watering during a drought) doesn't fly in California.