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So if lake mead dries up completely....

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Gibsons said:
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I know, right? I remember when Katrina hit, two out of three rednecks loudly agreed it was their god's judgement for Mardi Gras, and it would probably be even worse for Vegas.

Still, we shouldn't put major population centers below sea level or in the desert if we can avoid it, it's just asking for this kind of shit to happen.
 
Doing some reading on this...grass BUYBACK program? Pool cover tax credit? Wow, they are really approaching this the wrong way. How about requiring an annual license to have a green lawn or a pool, and hike up the rates as needed when things get dry. Taxing bad behavior is MUCH more profitable than subsidizing good behavior.

Also, golf courses should have to pay a small fortune to operate in the desert. Because fuck golf.
 
jagec said:
Doing some reading on this...grass BUYBACK program? Pool cover tax credit? Wow, they are really approaching this the wrong way. How about requiring an annual license to have a green lawn or a pool, and hike up the rates as needed when things get dry. Taxing bad behavior is MUCH more profitable than subsidizing good behavior.

Also, golf courses should have to pay a small fortune to operate in the desert. Because fuck golf.
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:thumbsup::thumbsup:
Sounds like the Governor should be giving you a call, since you have the answers to all of their problems.
 
-slash- said:
Hmm no water to So Cal....it cant dry up quick enough.
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So Cal should start building solar-powered desalination plants (or wastewater filtration plants, which are more economical but less palatable), so they can stop pumping water all the way from the Colorado River.

The good news is the Colorado mountains just got a pile of snow. 🙂
 
jagec said:
Doing some reading on this...grass BUYBACK program? Pool cover tax credit? Wow, they are really approaching this the wrong way. How about requiring an annual license to have a green lawn or a pool, and hike up the rates as needed when things get dry. Taxing bad behavior is MUCH more profitable than subsidizing good behavior.

Also, golf courses should have to pay a small fortune to operate in the desert. Because fuck golf.
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I love golf, but the plush rolling green courses in the middle of scrub desert are an abomination.
 
Climate Change depresses the hell out of me. It always did, but I was secretly hoping that the climate changer deniers would somehow be right. Instead, it looks like there's a good chance that the US enters a megadrought, agricultural centers turn to wastelands, and my childhood home in California becomes a desert.
 
Ruptga said:
I know, right? I remember when Katrina hit, two out of three rednecks loudly agreed it was their god's judgement for Mardi Gras, and it would probably be even worse for Vegas.

Still, we shouldn't put major population centers below sea level or in the desert if we can avoid it, it's just asking for this kind of shit to happen.
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Asking people to have historically developed sensibly rather than cheaply is asking a lot.
And yes, it actually is our parents and grandparents etc who are to blame.

This is what happens when you don't plan properly.
In the UK we have similar but semi-opposite issues. They decided to build houses on lovely flood plain areas because it was land which was allowed by the government to develop on, and it was cheap etc. Plus there's a requirement (govt subsidised) for insurance companies to offer home insurance for these otherwise uninsurable properties (because who would insure something built on a floodplain for a reasonable amount of money? No one).

Oh look, lots of rain. And suddenly all the houses are flooded. And now they're thinking maybe building on flood plains wasn't such a great idea.
 
"Ha ha, people in the Northeast with all your snow. Ha ha, people in the Southeast with that horrible hot humid weather in the summer. We live in Southern California, in the middle of a friggin desert. It doesn't rain here. I'll bet you wish you lived where we do. What could go wrong?"
 
Wait a sec. You're telling me that building cities and agricultural centers where there is no water could eventually bite us in the ass? Man you GOT to be kidding.
 
CZroe said:
:whiste:
There's a lake of stew
and of whiskey too
in the Big Rock Candy Mountains
:whiste:
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Congratulations, that song is now in my head for the day. To rebalance the scales for this deed of yours, I hear the karma train a cominin, rolling round the bend...
 
Ken g6 said:
So Cal should start building solar-powered desalination plants (or wastewater filtration plants, which are more economical but less palatable), so they can stop pumping water all the way from the Colorado River.

🙂
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this,
they should have done it decades ago, but instead they thought it was a better idea to steal the water from everywhere else

I also agree with the post about golf, make them pay
 
Ruptga said:
Still, we shouldn't put major population centers below sea level or in the desert if we can avoid it, it's just asking for this kind of shit to happen.
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The attractions (at least for southern CA) are mild temps., no snow or ice, no hurricanes, Nor' Easters, tornadoes, floods, cicadas, little humidity, mostly laid back people...

We do have fires, smog and occasional earthquakes, but if you stick to the coast those threats are somewhat mitigated.
 
Anubis said:
this,
they should have done it decades ago, but instead they thought it was a better idea to steal the water from everywhere else

I also agree with the post about golf, make them pay
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Yea...I'm confused. A city right by a gigantic ocean needs more water. Umm....get it from the stupid ocean!

Why not use a waste to energy plant? You know they have plenty of trash...and plenty of salt water....
 
Lonyo said:
Asking people to have historically developed sensibly rather than cheaply is asking a lot.
And yes, it actually is our parents and grandparents etc who are to blame.

This is what happens when you don't plan properly.
In the UK we have similar but semi-opposite issues. They decided to build houses on lovely flood plain areas because it was land which was allowed by the government to develop on, and it was cheap etc. Plus there's a requirement (govt subsidised) for insurance companies to offer home insurance for these otherwise uninsurable properties (because who would insure something built on a floodplain for a reasonable amount of money? No one).

Oh look, lots of rain. And suddenly all the houses are flooded. And now they're thinking maybe building on flood plains wasn't such a great idea.
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We did that one in the US too, in addition to the building cities in the desert thing. We even copied the dutch by building a city below sea level but we also did it in a hurricane zone in order to outdo them. The entire state of Florida is based on that Monty Python piece where they build a castle in a swamp. America takes your ideas, copies them and makes them better.
 
The drought in the west will cause the food prices to go up since there will be less food grown. Property with water may or may not go up in price.
 
IronWing said:
Congratulations, that song is now in my head for the day. To rebalance the scales for this deed of yours, I hear the karma train a cominin, rolling round the bend...
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Well, meade is alcoholic. 😉

You can paddle all around it
in a big canoe :whiste:
 
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