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NASA Scientist Warns "California Has One Year Of Water Left"
Authored by NASA Senior Water Scientist Jay Famiglietti, originally posted Op-Ed at The LA Times,
Given the historic low temperatures and snowfalls that pummeled the eastern U.S. this winter, it might be easy to overlook how devastating California's winter was as well.
As our “wet” season draws to a close, it is clear that the paltry rain and snowfall have done almost nothing to alleviate epic drought conditions. January was the driest in California since record-keeping began in 1895. Groundwater and snowpack levels are at all-time lows. We're not just up a creek without a paddle in California, we're losing the creek too.
Data from NASA satellites show that the total amount of water stored in the Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins — that is, all of the snow, river and reservoir water, water in soils and groundwater combined — was 34 million acre-feet below normal in 2014. That loss is nearly 1.5 times the capacity of Lake Mead, America's largest reservoir.
Statewide, we've been dropping more than 12 million acre-feet of total water yearly since 2011. Roughly two-thirds of these losses are attributable to groundwater pumping for agricultural irrigation in the Central Valley. Farmers have little choice but to pump more groundwater during droughts, especially when their surface water allocations have been slashed 80% to 100%. But these pumping rates are excessive and unsustainable. Wells are running dry. In some areas of the Central Valley, the land is sinking by one foot or more per year.
As difficult as it may be to face, the simple fact is that California is running out of water — and the problem started before our current drought. NASA data reveal that total water storage in California has been in steady decline since at least 2002, when satellite-based monitoring began, although groundwater depletion has been going on since the early 20th century.
Right now the state has only about one year of water supply left in its reservoirs, and our strategic backup supply, groundwater, is rapidly disappearing. California has no contingency plan for a persistent drought like this one (let alone a 20-plus-year mega-drought), except, apparently, staying in emergency mode and praying for rain.
In short, we have no paddle to navigate this crisis.
Several steps need be taken right now.
First, immediate mandatory water rationing should be authorized across all of the state's water sectors, from domestic and municipal through agricultural and industrial. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is already considering water rationing by the summer unless conditions improve. There is no need for the rest of the state to hesitate. The public is ready. A recent Field Poll showed that 94% of Californians surveyed believe that the drought is serious, and that one-third support mandatory rationing.
Second, the implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2014 should be accelerated. The law requires the formation of numerous, regional groundwater sustainability agencies by 2017. Then each agency must adopt a plan by 2022 and “achieve sustainability” 20 years after that. At that pace, it will be nearly 30 years before we even know what is working. By then, there may be no groundwater left to sustain.
Third, the state needs a task force of thought leaders that starts, right now, brainstorming to lay the groundwork for long-term water management strategies. Although several state task forces have been formed in response to the drought, none is focused on solving the long-term needs of a drought-prone, perennially water-stressed California.
Our state's water management is complex, but the technology and expertise exist to handle this harrowing future. It will require major changes in policy and infrastructure that could take decades to identify and act upon. Today, not tomorrow, is the time to begin.
Finally, the public must take ownership of this issue. This crisis belongs to all of us — not just to a handful of decision-makers. Water is our most important, commonly owned resource, but the public remains detached from discussions and decisions.
This process works just fine when water is in abundance. In times of crisis, however, we must demand that planning for California's water security be an honest, transparent and forward-looking process. Most important, we must make sure that there is in fact a plan.
Call me old-fashioned, but I'd like to live in a state that has a paddle so that it might also still have a creek.
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Too late, there is a major outbreak of the same in NYC
we could wall that shithole off too, along with DC
Wow, I say it again as I did in a previous article on this subject CA has 100s of water boards, all with people drawing fat salaries and pensions, and not one of these gensus figured out we need water, or live by an ocean for that matter...geezzz
San Diego is building a nice desal plant, I think comes online about a year from now.
Another is proposed at Huntington Beach, but at current rates of progress will take another six or eight years.
About twenty more would provide all the coastal cities with all the urban water they need, at about the same prices as currently.
However, there's not much agriculture you can do with water at those prices, and most of the farm land is fifty miles and more uphill from the ocean. If you build a *lot* of greenhouses and double food prices maybe 5% could be saved, but some large percent of California's food would have to imported from somewhere else, and a serious percentage of all US food production is done in California.
Even with all the thorium reactors you'd ever want, the economics don't change much after that.
No problemo:
http://images.sodahead.com/polls/000388219/polls_2691558545_728150acb4_4...
A must-see documentary ("FLOW: For the Love of Water") deals with the dwindling global supply of drinking water, and its transfer from the public ownership to private ownership.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/flow-for-love-of-water/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow:_For_Love_of_Water
"Flow: For Love of Water" is a 2008 documentary film directed by Irena Salina. The film won the Grand Jury Award at the Mumbai International Film Festival and the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary at the United Nations Film Festival. It competed in the Documentary Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.
The film deals with attempts at privatization of water infrastructure. Major businesses depicted in the film are Nestle, The Coca-Cola Company, Suez, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
FLOW launched a Right To Water campaign to add a 31st article to the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, Article31.org.
FLOW was released theatrically by Oscilloscope Labs in September, 2008, and then invited to screen for the UN General Assembly on the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, where the first 50,000 signatories to Article31 were presented to the President of the General Assembly, Father Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann.
there must be a bailout in here somewhere
I'm so excited for the dry air from the west meeting the muggy hot air to the east this spring, right smack in the middle of my hometown.
Get ready for a 'water tax' on everyone and billions of additional tax dollars spent to pipe the Great Lakes to the leftists F**ks in California.
Why not use some of the fracked oil and gas to operate desalinization plants - plenty of water in the Pacific - is there a way to De-fukushima the water though?
We've always know the resources of the planet are finite. And that some day we would run into a brick wall.
The day is fast approaching. And we are running 250mph towards that wall - without a helmet!
Serious problems require serious solutions.
Thorium reactors can provide all the desalinized water California will ever need.
Step one- lobby the DOE to reclassify Thorium.
Step two- lobby congress to approve funds for R&D for reactor development.
Step three- use California's great influence and expertise to educate the public and representatives to the benefits of Thorium molten salt reactors.
Thorium molten salt reactors are safe- not like water cooled reactors. Thorium is plentiful and can provide fuel for a thousand years of power gereration. They can solve the current problems with fossil fuels.
You -tube Kirk Sorenson for details.
Desalinized, radiated water. Hmmm good.
No need to raise the "Fear Factor"...again!
Desalination has been around for decades, (Dutch Antillies, Aruba, Curacao) plus all merchant vessels use desalination for their drinking water.
http://www.welcomearuba.com/drinking-water-in-aruba.html
Can't they just suck the juices out of their aborted babies? That should be good for a few million gallons.
heh man, ya gots to call it tissue to avoid legalize
When the rain came on like a wagon load of wet goats in late November/early December, I said to myself - 'This is a head-fake'... Sure enough, the warm storms blew out, the cold, dry air blew in and it was (7) weeks until another drop arrived, and it too blew out and we haven't seen anything since. Pretty bad.
Don't we have more pressing issues like how to travel to Mars?...
Don't knock Mars. I read they've discovered water there. We'll need to improve shuttle service, of course.
I hope the California quail goes extinct.
The new state bird should be the vulture.
"Nowhere in the world is rice production more advanced than in California. Careful attention to every step in the cropping cycle and milling ensures that rice produced in our warm Mediterranean climate meets-and often exceeds-customers' expectations for great rice"
There are dozens of "Rice Commissions" "Rice Coops" "California Rice Associations" just google California Rice Growers! Big business!
Someone should have a look at the tree rings for the California Redwoods.
Human memory is short ..... is this really unusual or a rather big mistake made on assumptions of climate in human memory.
The tree rings still record the fate of Ankor Wat:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29245289
A civilization planned to cope with the human memory of climate change within that region.
A few people have already had the same idea:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/02/140214-drought-californi...
One result from a Google search ..... will the drought end soon? ...... maybe ...... maybe not
someone, please, can you flush this prog state down the hole
Not enough water to do that. They will have to be buried
China has whole ghost cities, just sitting vacant...ready for the liberal progressives to occupy. I don't think China wants real communists to move there though...
I was gonna suggest they build a few more dams, but then I realized, DUH, what they need is a high speed train.
Monorail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZBPoRwog00
they should just do a giant roller coaster...compliments of my 9-year old daughter.
Tax the rich and give illegal immigrants more free benefits with IRS refunds to boot; see how easy it is to solve problems in the libtard universe?
www.traderzoo.mobi
If they'd stop goddamn spraying us like vermin, the jetstream would restore it's shit and it would goddamn rain again.
I't 90 degrees here today at Universal City. Why? Well, they've fucked with the normal weather patters so much with their loving "geo-engineering" program that we can't even get a decent El Nino year anymore.
They'll never build de-salination plants. They've had decades to do it and the fucked up apparatus here will never lift a finger to do it.
You can, however, if you're a faggot, use the women's restroom. That much has been accomplished.
this weather is utterly normal for SoCal... maybe not regular, but not unheard of either.
i've lived here all my life, and have seen it many times before... Santa Anas come when there's a high pressure ridge in the Great Basin... Wendsay it was raining, Thursday the winds kicked in. granted, it didn't rain much, but water did come from the sky.
Mother Nature isn't an HVAC system you can set and walk away from: like any other female, she does what she damn well pleases, whether it makes sense or not to you.
I've been here 53 years. The Santa Anas have dropped crazily since the aerosol program went into high gear in 2008. True, nature is fickle, but fucking with it by spraying shit on us is a terrible idea.
No, NO. iT'S A GREAT IDEA. Just need to increase the amount of spraying, and once people disappear so will the water shortage.
the obvious solution is to build a pipeline to Ganymede, and harvest the water in the ocean there...
%-)
1. Should have closed the open door down south. 2. should have ran some pipes to the GIANT FREAKING OCEAN next door! hmm... there's an idea, get busy... JOBS!
I know I am dreaming, but wouldn't it be nice if all those liberals and wetbacks died of dehydration out there?
{sarcasm}Because putting government in charge of an already scarce resource always results in bountiful abundance. {/sarcasm}
And the idea that perhaps we shouldn't build huge metropolitan areas in the desert? Why, that's CRAZY TALK, right there, mister!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0q4o58pKwA
True dat. Nobody who wasn't a miner, a hooker or a cactus has any reason to live in Nevada---and only the cactus should want to.
Obama will make it rain! Just watch!
no. the leftist stazi media will tell the would ovomit made it rain
"NASA Scientist Warns "California Has One Year Of Water Left"
Yea thanks for the prediction, we will file that next to chicken little's, the Mayan calendar, and Y2k. We're still not sending you any more money.
Most people today don't look up into the skies for any reason, they are much to busy staring dumb founded at a smarter than they phone. If you are not old enough to remember what the skies looked like in the 1950's and 60's' then you will never will see what these globalist elite have been doing to the upper atmospheres of the planet sincce then. It is not just dry in California, it is dry everywhere there is an atmosphere, and even some places where there is not. High altitude atmospheric spraying (geo engineering) has been going on for so long now that most people cannot even fathom that a government that has been so good to them handing over other peoples wealth, would ever spray anything into the air we breath, heavens not a chance. F---ing idiots
Everybody and their dog has known for a century that eventually California would need a lot of desalination plants, and it looks like eventually arrived early, but who knew the state would then be run by leftist green nutballs. But I suppose it's human nature, don't do anything until it's time to panic. Which seems to be coming down the avenue just about now.
If they shift the windmills in reverse, maybe they can draw water from the ocean.
/sarc
Desalination of Fukushima contamination! Yeah right
Let’s place John Chiang on the decommissioned Prison to see if he can make it to land from Alcatraz. John, that swim has a lot of water. How are you planning to run out? Unfunded pensions, high labor costs? Is that why you to flood United States of America with cheap Mexican labor to default on your state payment obligations? This will be fun to watch, liberals running for cover.
http://www.treasurer.ca.gov/images/banner.png?1235
Do you remember this?
http://www.citizen.org/documents/CA%20Senate%20CAFTA%20letter.pdf
John, take your fears and hope no one kills you for hiding lies.
http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/533446/desalination-out-of-desperation/
"This will be fun to watch, liberals running for cover. "
It would be but it seems the SJW warriors, those horny-handed sons of the soil, never seem to do a productive day's work in their lives but always end up in cushy sinecures. Social 'Science' academics, Diversity Managers, Government and semi-Government employees etc. all with guaranteed increments and guaranteed index-linked pensions. They'll be the last to suffer. Be assured of that. Unless of course the whole economic ponzi comes crashing down......
NASA = Never A Straight Answer
"We have one year of water left in CA, especially LA"...
Reminds me of a film called Chinatown and how the water was "shanghaied" to serve Oligarchy interests in the 30s and how nothing has changed since then !
Once a Oligarchy gold rush always an Oligarchy gold rush about the "essential element".
Guess who runs the current Indian Wells tennis tournament, where the average age of the spectators is just post-canonical. Now that is not an "essential element" but a thermometer of what money can buy... the Sports machine!
Is there any domain where the Oligarchy money is not supreme?
All the bottle water consumers are going to get spring water this time around.
I read this and right away I put a Fukushima Japan spin on this . . . God is Angry that we Ruin the Pacific Ocean with Pollution . . . So He Drys up the west coast... Man can not handle the Atom . How can people eat if there are no fish in the ocean . . .
Don't worry. The idle rich will still have their perfect lawns, their golf courses, and their organic almond milk.
It's the proles who'll be standing in line for hours for their weekly water ration and having to either rent chemical outhouses (of the sort seen at open-air events) or go to a public convenience whenever they need to use the bathroom and pay through the nose, because an indoor flush toilet will be a luxury most will no longer be able to afford.
Of course, simply going wherever is convenient will only be a option for the diverse and vibrant. Think illegals are ruining your city now? Wait till they're literally shitting on your front porch and the only people who get ticketed for relieving themselves in public are white people.
It blew me away when I realized all the poor people just go shit on the sidewalk when I lived in India. The rural poor go shit by the train tracks. If you take a train ride in India (which i highly recommend), then dawn and dusk are peek duece-dropping viewing times.
When it's hot weather, and the shit dires up and blows away, you'll get sick at some point by just breathing the air.
And they have 'flying latrines' in Kenya (and maybe other places in Africa). This innovative sewage disposal solution involves crapping into a plastic bag and then firing it away from you into some back alley.
Perhaps if the Feds stopped diverting the fresh mountain water into the Pacific Ocean,
in order to save some near-extinct species, then the farming and ranching communities
would have the water they needed.
But go ahead, CA, keep on regulating the size of a chicken coop.
As a Wyoming Citizen, I couldn't really care LESS about what happens to CA.
Just stop moving to Jackson Hole--you CA nut jobs are destroying it, one new regulation at a time.
But that's the whole point. They will not stop moving to Jackson Hole and other points north. The rate will increase the more f*cked CA gets.
I guess this asswipe has never heard of desal http://poseidonwater.com/our_projects/all_projects/huntington_beach_proj...
Sounds like Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues.
Some got to win some got to lose.
Ya'll can come back now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YP3pIPp8P8
This is what happens when you are liberal too long....You Burn up in your own hell!
Does no one with a science degree understand that our Earth is constantly changing?
And that this change is NATURAL? First up, the 22 year solar cycle of sunspot minimums and maximums.
That leads to changes in ocean currents and the warming and cooling of the Earth's surface.
This changes weather patterns, and whether CA is in a drought or a wet period.
One man's drought is another generation's wet period, full of landslides and plant growth.
One year, we'll be hearing about how bad the drought is, and 25 years later, we'll
be hearing about the mud slides and torrential downpours!
The fact is that our government LIES to us all the time now, including
all the Federal agencies in order to push their UN Agenda 21 propaganda, like
"Sustainable Development".
So, keep on falling for it, America, because these new political "leaders" are
hell bent on POWER AND CONTROL of every aspect of your daily lives.
And that, my friends, is what this whole CA drought Bullshit is all about. Period.
Geez, their just trying to make a few bucks
Geez, they're just trying to make a few bucks.
There, fixed it for you.
thanx homey.
"When a man's salary depends on his not understanding he generally does not understand"
Do you actually believe this, or do you really not know about how aquifers work?
It's like oil. You take it out and it's gone and it takes a long time (100,000 or even 1,000,000,000 years) to replace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOEYT0wZFNg
"Does no one with a science degree understand that our Earth is constantly changing? And that this change is NATURAL?" --Surveyor4Pres
Does no one understand that logical fallacy never helps an argument? AGW science is so highly politicized that I can't help but remain a skeptic about much of our GHG-related "findings". But man, you're not helping at all by propagating the fallacy that, because earth processes are dynamic, human activity can't possibly influence these processes. Critical thinking seems to be unwanted in our religion-choked culture -- and I'm not excluding the AGW religion to which our political and academic elite so fervently adhere -- and that is too bad.
So the PEOPLE responsible for publishing the 30,000+ science articles, and the 150,000+ PEOPLE that commented on the drafts, and the huge numbers of authors/ lead authors/reviewers, and everyone else involved in the production of the IPCC AR5, are not critical thinkers, just religious zealots?
So AR6 should be prepared by high school students so as to avoid the "elite" accusation?
The #1 influence on our global climate is....
Tada! THE SUN!
Man's contributions to change in our global temperature are practically ZERO.
Oh, and here's a point often left out by the Agenda 21 Sustainable Development apes:
MORE CO^2 MEANS GREATER PLANT GROWTH WHICH MEANS GREATER OXYGEN SUPPLY!
Don't you get it yet, you dummies! God created the perfect balancing act between plants and animals.
Plants give off Oxygen, whilst animals consume it, and animals give off CO2, which the plants consume.
So, if your a tree hugger, then you should be for MOAR CO2 emissions!
But your Toyota Prius' with their COEXIST bumper stickers just don't get that, now do they?
Oh, and one more thing: Water on planet Earth is A CLOSED SYSTEM. There's the exact same amount of water
on Earth today, as there was a billion years ago. So there is NO water shortage--the water just occurs in different places.
"Free" SodaStream machines for every California resident = problem fixed! We hydrated some folks.
When beer and wine producers including bottled water, sport drinks, iced tea, energy drinks start to complain, then I'll get concerned.
I sound like a broken record.
Carbonated Ice-tea is the next flop, that Jew is going to lose millions.
The liberal cuntlicks who failed on peak oil, green coal, and solar power are going to tax you on rain water. It’s tit’s up for the last straw in convincing the population the sun controls the environment.
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/Agenda21.pdf
I wonder if this NASA "scientist" knows that the Earth
is actually closer to the Sun during North American Winter than during North American Summer?
3....2....1...- 120" Great Lakes trans-continental pipeline to NV/CA. How much water you need to keep those lawns green? Just keep those donations to Congress rolling and the laws will be in place to override all states rights pronto.
Eight Great Lakes states and two Canadian provinces have been preparing for this eventuality for decades. You'll play hell taking our water.
For all you ignorant down-voters out there:
The Earth's orbit around the Sun is elliptical. The 4 Seasons are actually the result of the tilt of the Earth's axis,
not the proximity of the Earth to the Sun.
In the Northern Hemisphere's Winter, the Earth's orbit actually takes us CLOSER to the Sun.
But the tilt of the Earth's axis means that the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the Sun, making
the solar rays less direct--thus causing our Northern Winter.
Of course, at the same time, the Southern Hemisphere gets the more direct rays of the Sun,
hence our Winter = their Summer.
Now, can I get some up-votes, please?
I redded ya because you think the Earth orbits the sun...
Back at ya, green man.
I'm sure that once the NWO globalists have us down
to just 500,000,000* people in the World, then said drought
will not be a problem.
*Reference - The Georgia Guidestones
So maybe the facebook funeral add mix up was no mistake after all.
See prev.thred.
Stop the chemtrails...stop the drought.
Desalization plants are the answer. You've got to weigh the price of water from these plants vs. the price of CA becoming a vast empty wasteland.
Desalization plants are the answer. You've got to weigh the price of water from these plants vs. the price of CA becoming a vast empty wasteland. I think that's a price most rationale Californians (how many is that?) would be willing to pay.
Si. Muy biena idea.
50 years ago, California was paradise on earth. Then all the people showed up.
I've read the article but the very fact the solution presented in the first paragraph suggests that the last and only solution may be for California to pray for rain!! Absolutely Not!! Everyone knows that the doctrine of the separation of Church and State does not allow this.
I've read the article but the very fact the solution presented in the first paragraph suggests that the last and only solution may be for California to pray for rain!! Absolutely Not!! Everyone knows that the doctrine of the separation of Church and State does not allow this.
Texas Gov. Perry already tried the Prayer Solution a few of years ago. Surprisingly, it didn't work.
You want to help world hunger? Stop sending them food. Don't send them another bite, send them U-Hauls. Send them a guy that says, "You know, we've been coming here giving you food for about 35 years now and we were driving through the desert, and we realized there wouldn't BE world hunger if you people would live where the FOOD IS! YOU LIVE IN A DESERT!! UNDERSTAND THAT? YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT!! NOTHING GROWS HERE! NOTHING'S GONNA GROW HERE! Come here, you see this? This is sand. You know what it's gonna be 100 years from now? IT'S GONNA BE SAND!! YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT! We have deserts in America, we just don't LIVE in them, assholes!" - The late great Sammy K
Amen brother. And we reduce child mortality by 80% in Africa and whatever hope they had of feeding themselves is gone. And they are gone......on their way to Europe.
Sammy died a horrible death.
some sort of karma thing.
Wonder if CIA used weather weapons against Aztec civilisation too...hmmm....
Amos 4:7 - And also I have withholden the rain from you, when [there were] yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
Maybe if they stop the chemtrails and HAARP program CA could have its water back and the East will stop flooding and have all the snow. No, thats a conspiracy so never mind.
TPTB have been mulling over the Desal plant in Carlsbad for the past 10 years. Looks like it will finally go online in about a year however this plant isn't large enough to supply enough water even for San Diego, much less the entire state. We need to pull back on usage immediately and that means no longer watering golf courses and a moratorium on new residential building. If you see measures like this enacted you'll know the oligarchs are getting serious, until then, nothing will happen and CA will just run out of water, period.
The quickest solution would be a pipeline from water rich areas to the North, but the result will be water bills that exceed the cost of mortgage payments (i.e. "not gonna happen").
Is this data from the Apollo 13 NASA or the be kind to muslims NASA?
I would bet those dumbasses would use the last drop to keep their lawns green...
NASA is famous for 'tricking the data' on their global warming religion. But on the drought in California they may be right.
all you californians better get yer flood insurance
They raise my flood premium every year.
Writing a check for 653.00 mandatory fluid insurance as we speak.
Trainloads of Obamawater and iBamaWatches are being despatched to South Central and Compton at a rapid rate of speed.
Another Gov.paid sock puppet spewing his script for the IMF / UN / PTB Leviathan. Anybody paying attention knows it's a "Arc of Crisis" / Black Swan Event created / manufactured by ENMOD / SRM / Geo Engineering. Anthropomorphic Ionospheric heating or cooling has been in various projects since @ least 1966. Injection ELF / HLF energy into the streams to boost or mitigate the weather is nothing new. Only the media or Congress won't discus it even though many people are aware & know the truth. The books are "cooked" 5 IPCC tests because they got called out by PEER Groups who know the scam. The manufactured Malthusian Crisis is another example of the PTB playing GOD & trying their "Full Spectrum Domination" on it's own people as the Trail Balloon. How jacked up is that ?
Strange days indeed....
@VooDoo6Actual...
Wow! I was gonna simply comment that it's HAARP...but you blew me away with your details...
Amen and Gob Bless.
It is not a natural drought...it is man made...and the tool used is HAARP!
Any other excuse is bullshit.
In the eighties when I lived in Palm Springs there was an article, I think in the Desert Sun, that stated the water table in that part of California had enough water for 400 years or something to that effect. The population there has grown a lot and so have golf courses, but methinks there may be a few years of water underground yet.
Ahh, such a wonderful thread.
The USA went from a place where hydroelectric dams powered the country to a place where people don't even understand aquifers.
It's like watching Easter Island all over again.
Just build huge RO plants next to the ocean to remove the salt. Unlimited water.
And extremely energy intensive (not to mention you have to deal with extreme salinity issues with the waste). Israel / Saud are at the forefront of this tech, but it rather underlines a larger issue. They live in deserts (8,000 years of humans living there does that to an ecology).
Your goal is to avoid becoming the desert; takes a lot less time, money and human life to conserve rather than attempt to beat entropy.
Starting build a Canal zone towards NORTH
Canada has what it takes to SURVIVE..
Hell, if they spent a 10th of what they're planning on spending on this boondoggle "high speed rail" on desalination capacity this discussion would be over...
Whether there is any water left or not, this kind of story sounds like a good way to force-feed drought-resistant GMOs down our throats.
Whether there is any water left or not, this kind of story sounds like a good way to force-feed drought-resistant GMOs down our throats.
Windwhirls are not the best for producing dependable electricity but they can run a desalinization plant. Dedicate wind power to water and it could make a difference, there aren't many alternatives.
The good news is that future Napa Chardonnays should have very, intense fruit characteristics with a slight note of acidity but overall will have nice balanced and be well suited for moderate to long term aging.
They will drink nicely with whatever one can scavange from the local city dumps but will be especially well paired with empty tuna cans. Pinots from Sonoma will peak early but should pair nicely with squirrel.
right out of the 'Report From Iron Mountain' handbook. Section 6, substitutes for the functions of war. scare sheeple shitless to get them all on board with draconian measures
The solution is for people to move from California to states that are not deserts and have plenty of water. But moving might cause traumatic stress syndrome of an aquatic variety. Fragile people will fail. Before you move better close the door to the south. Those people are not fragile and know how to survive in a desert.
I'm calling BS on you. The solution is for them to STAY in CA and fix the mess they made. If they leave they will go to other states and f@$# them up too. They made their bed. Let's tuck them in and tell them good night. One govenator and one moonbeam (twice!) is plenty.
Also send Bloomberg out there, to stop those 16 oz. drinks.
more ZH crying wolf. I wish it were true.
Add drama by calling it Oxidane.
Story was only posted to here by ZH. NASA is the one crying wolf, if it really is a cry wolf story. They also cry about a lot of other things, but don't worry about the story. Just live where there's water.
<Sensors>
Captain!! California's Implosion Rate has now gone into the Catastrophic!!
<Science Station>
I Concur, Captain:
With Toyota leaving the State, HP Collapsing, TSLA/SPACE-X's Vampiric Subsidy draw and Black-Scholes Time-Bomb, AAPL's Limp-wristed bomb-of-a-toy, and now near defunct Fresh Water Pipline drying out their Agribusiness, California's Suck Rate - pegging at the Top for its Unemployment/Public Assistance Draw Rate - is now above the Catastrophic "Red Line".
<Helm>
Captain, we're losing traction and distance from the California Vortex!
<Sensors>
Real Space is being distorted to a far greater degree... Tankers and Container Vessels hoplessly caught in the Port Strike are dumping their Loads or seeking safe harbor elsewhere...
<Captain>
SHIELDS UP!! RED ALERT!! GENERAL QUARTERS!!!
ALL ENGINES AHEAD FLANK!!! NOW!! NOW!! NOW!!
<Science>
One Massive Impulse of "Suck" from the Vortex is warping Space-Time around us, Captain. This will be cccccclllllll-oooooosssss...
MUST......ESCAPE......AND......AVOID. VORTEX. AND. EVENT. HORIZON. OF. THIS. BRAIN. DRAINING. STATE. OF. SUCK. CALLED. CALIFORNIA...
//Bust of Speed as Ship cuts though a blob of Bureaucratic Inertia//
//The Bridge Crew is dismayed. Few were unconscious. Captain wipes the sweat off his brows; and looks at his screens.//
<Captain>
Man! THAT...SUCKED. Damage Report!!
<Operations>
We're all Fed Up here, Captain. Our Egos are bruised; but we know our Financial Well Being and Careers don't have a chance until we Clear and escape this Vortex.
<Engineering>
The Engines are overheating, Captain. Recommend we reduce speed and resort to short sprints at every opportunity.
<Science>
Concur, Captain. There are few pockets of Independence, Self Sufficiencies, and from what we can tell, new developments outside of the Vortiex-ridden Hegemony. Pretty soon, our savings and currency won't be of any use.
<Captain>
Very well, then.
Helm: Reduce speed to Full; and chart a Course that avoid the Bureacracy Blobs and any Privateering Vessels circling the Vortex.
Operations: Cut all outgoing Comms with the Hegemon save for familygrams and receipt acknowledgements.
XO: Keep the Ship on Red Alert, engage 24Hour Watch Rotations, and Call all Department Heads, Officers and Section Chiefs not on Watch to the Wardroom.
//CO and XO are headed for the Wardroom//
<XO>
Captain, other Vessels have left the Hegemony; and others are being cannibalized by the Sociopaths within the Hegemony while the MIC and the Capitol are planning for new War Campaigns. Though we are of the Fleet Citizen-Militia, we may have to seek safe harbor abroad; and perhaps consider disbanding the Crew and joining another Humanoid Faction in the Future.
<Captain>
That would mean leaving the homesick behind, or sending them back when we get there...
<XO>
Yes...
<Captain>
The California Suck-Vortex had one year of Freshwater left, correct?
<XO>
Yes, Captain.
<Captain>
So we have Nine Months - one more AgriCycle and a non-existent Rain Cycle - until supplies become scarce and the Vortex worsens even more. The Drought may cause USD based purchases of AgriProducts abroad increase - pumping up the Px.... Interesting.
//XO Enters the Wardroom. As the CO enters, the XO calls everyone to attention. The Discussions begin to determine how to bring about the//
The Escape from California. The Escape from the Hegemony. The Escape...
...from EPIC FAIL.
- weather happens
- governments love a crisis
- government solutions only make problems worse
I live in Krazifornia and I own mountain land. The bark beetle is killing off a lot of trees (too thick from the years of too much water and too few fires). I'm probably going to loose my shirt on the value of my ranch. 6 massive ponderosa pines next to my house are now dead and posing a hazard, not to mention the fire hazard in the forest all around. But no need to start looking for some secret reason for all of this. It's nothing more than nature and a government that adds grief on top of it.
Some things can't be fixed. Just endured.
To bad timber prices are tanking..
Evergreen Air may have had the solution (180 tons of liquid that empties out one large exit in the rear), but the CIA may have to be bribed:
As of 21 May 2013 the Supertanker is stored in the boneyard at Pinal Airpark outside Marana, Arizona, with plans to be scrapped.[13]
On 1 January 2014, parent company Evergreen International filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy and is no longer in business
Some powerful MONEYS from Wall Street want to make H20 a comodity, just like gld, slv, pork, etc. Once "they" get their wish, California will have tons and tons of water again. Remember, everything in this world is about money, the rest is conversation.