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California Has Never Experienced A Water Crisis Of This Magnitude – And The Worst Is Yet To Come
Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
Things have never been this dry for this long in the recorded history of the state of California, and this has created an unprecedented water crisis. At this point, 1,900 wells have already gone completely dry in California, and some communities are not receiving any more water at all. As you read this article, 100 percent of the state is in some stage of drought, and there has been so little precipitation this year that some young children have never actually seen rain.
This is already the worst multi-year drought in the history of the state of California, but this may only be just the beginning. Scientists tell us that the amount of rain that California received during the 20th century was highly unusual. In fact, they tell us that it was the wettest century for the state in at least 1000 years.
Now that things are returning to “normal”, the state is completely and total unprepared for it. California has never experienced a water crisis of this magnitude, and other states in the western half of the nation are starting to really suffer as well. In the end, we could very well be headed for the worst water crisis this country has ever seen.
When I said that some communities in California are not receiving any more water, I was not exaggerating. Just consider the following excerpt from one recent news report…
The community of Mountain House is days away from having no water at all after the state cut off its only water source.
Anthony Gordon saves drinking water just in case, even though he never thought it would come to this.
“My wife thinks I’m nuts. I have like 500 gallons of drinking water stored in my home,” he said.
The upscale community of Mountain House, west of Tracy, is days away from having no water. It’s not just about lawns—there may not be a drop for the 15,000 residents to drink.
So what are those people going to do?
And what is this going to do to the property values in that area?
Who in the world is going to want to buy a home that does not have running water coming to it?
Other communities throughout the state are pumping groundwater like crazy in a desperate attempt to continue with business as usual. In fact, it is being projected that groundwater will account for almost all water used in the entire state by the end of this year…
Underground aquifers supply 35 percent of the water used by humans worldwide. Demand is even greater in times of drought. Rain-starved California is currently tapping aquifers for 60 percent of its water use as its rivers and above-ground reservoirs dry up, a steep increase from the usual 40 percent. Some expect water from aquifers will account for virtually every drop of the state’s fresh water supply by year end.
But of course this creates a huge problem. When the groundwater is gone, it is gone for good. Those aquifers took centuries to fill up, and now they are being drained at a staggering rate. In some parts of the state, aquifers are being drained so fast that it is causing thousands of square miles of land to sink…
Californians have been draining water so rapidly from underground aquifers that tens of thousands of square miles of land reportedly are sinking — so drastically that the shifting surface is starting to destroy bridges and crack highways across the state, according to a recent report by the Center for Investigative Reporting.
So what is the solution?
Some of my readers have suggested that desalination is the answer. But the truth is that desalination is very expensive and it is really bad for the environment. The following comes from a recent Natural News article…
For those who are saying, “There’s no water problem in California! It has the entire Pacific Ocean right next door!”, you need to look into the catastrophic environmental destruction tied to ocean water desalination.
Not only does desalination use fossil fuels which emit the very same carbon emissions that the California government insists caused the drought in the first place, the desalination process itself pollutes the ocean with high concentration salt brine that kills marine ecosystems and destroys ocean life along the California coastline.
And that’s on top of all the Fukushima radiation that’s already causing a marine ecosystem collapse in many areas of the coast. Add more salt brine to the mix and you get a state where rich, self-entitled Hollywood celebrities demand their lush, green lawns at the expense of ocean life, climate change and the global ecosystem. If that happens, California will lose all credibility as a “green” state, and its wealthiest residents will be living an ecological lie.
Others have suggested that California can solve their water problems using “toilet to tap” technology…
Potable water reuse – or converting sewage effluent to heavily-treated, purified drinking water – is receiving renewed attention in California in the midst of the state’s four-year drought.
According to a report by the Los Angeles Times, “California water managers and environmentalists” are pushing the idea of recycled sewage water. Yet past efforts in the state to employ similar systems have stalled, as opponents have dubbed the concept “toilet to tap.”
How would you feel about that?
Would you be willing to have your family drink water that came from the toilets of your neighbors?
I don’t think that I could do that.
But something has to be done. It is not just the state of California that is experiencing a major water crisis. All over the world, underground aquifers are being drained rapidly. In fact, according to the Washington Post, 21 out of the 37 largest aquifers in the world “have passed their sustainability tipping points”…
The world’s largest underground aquifers – a source of fresh water for hundreds of millions of people — are being depleted at alarming rates, according to new NASA satellite data that provides the most detailed picture yet of vital water reserves hidden under the Earth’s surface.
Twenty-one of the world’s 37 largest aquifers — in locations from India and China to the United States and France — have passed their sustainability tipping points, meaning more water was removed than replaced during the decade-long study period, researchers announced Tuesday. Thirteen aquifers declined at rates that put them into the most troubled category. The researchers said this indicated a long-term problem that’s likely to worsen as reliance on aquifers grows.
Sadly, this is just the beginning. There is a reason why experts refer to fresh water as “the new oil”. Without fresh water, none of us can survive. But we are very quickly getting to the point where there simply won’t be enough of it for everyone on the planet.
As for the state of California, it was once a desert and now it is turning back into a desert. As I mentioned earlier, the 20th century was the wettest century that part of North America had seen in at least 1000 years. During that time, we built enormous cities all over the Southwest that currently support millions upon millions of people. But now we are learning that those cities are not sustainable.
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Then what is stopping you from moving?
Vancouver, Washington. Live in Washington, shop in Portland. Know a couple Californians already doing that. Amazing what the proceeds from a little Silicon Valley shack can buy up there!
"Both are constitutional home-rule states"
Both Washington State and Oregon are fascist shitholes.
I will entertain no argument to the contrary.
If I wanted to be enslaved, Washington State or Oregon would definitely be among my top places to move.
I prefer being closer to freedom, so here I stay.
- A citizen of Alabama
TRUE STORY ..
Meanwhile in the San Fernando Valley, California
I get out of my car yesterday. It is noon. The temperature is 100 degrees, and the place is baking. I am parked in a giant asphalt parking lot, very little shade. Just a few trees around the perimeter, and not much shade. So I talk to the security guard ..
Me: Wow! Things are really boiling here!!
Guard: Yeah, and it's gonna ge worse!
Me: Why?
Guard: Because they are getting ready to chop down the remaining trees.
Me: WHAT??!!!! Why on Earth would they do that?
Guard: Because the trees use water, and they want to save water.
Me: But that will just make the place hotter!
Guard: YEP!!!!
That sounds exactly like the California I know...
At the park near my house they continued to water the lawns while they let the 100+ year old Redwood trees die. When the trees were finally mostly dead, tbey also stopped watering the lawns. A couple of weeks ago they chopped down about half the trees and ground the stumps into mulch for good measure, I assume to make sure no tree suckling start to grow when El Nino starts the rain up again this fall. So, now that the trees have been dispatched, the sprinklers have started to water the brown lawns again, which are starting to show signs of green.
If you go back decades ago, the Sierra Club was for conservation. It was not really left or right. It was against mass migration aka immigration invasion. The reason was it just causes the population to increase in the place people move to and the place people leave.
The Sierra Club then became and Democrat, NWO, liberal, Stalinist group that was pro-illegal immigration. Pro La Raza etc. Capt Paul Watson (canadian) of The Sea Shepherd Society was on the board and fought to try to stop the Sierra Club from being part of the DNC.
The Sierra Club was ruined and is shit now. California wants more illegals and fewer trees. Absolute madness.
I was in Colorado a month ago and wanted to cry. I just know that beautiful state will be destroyed like California has been destroyed by EVIL people.
Yep ! That's the spirit...
These morons deserve to die of dehydration.
Yeah read the development regs in cali cities. The landscaping requirements are like 50% of the code. Its insane - they required all the greenbelts in the first place and all the large box trees and shrubs.
I bet SFV was better than San Berdoo, which is depressing even on temperate days. The bums in san berdoo have bitchin' tans already - even the black ones.
Yep, and those trees prevent runoff when it does rain, which would lead to more water soaking into the ground table. Stoopid libtarders. Save the....NO FUCK THE TREES (for the time being of course).
The security guard spoke english, wow.
He was 70 and all that SS money was not making it.
Caitlyn is getting thirsty
Actually CA has had 10 year droughts, we're in year 3 with ElNino rains coming.
The CA drought is all hype to push bogus public work projects.
Smitty. This time it is different. The rains will start to return when people get around to asking why, not before.
The rains will return when the people of California repent and get down on their knees and ask forgiveness.
Of course, many Californians are already on their knees but the things they are doing while they're down there is the reason why it isn't raining.
Tarbel you a smart cookie!
After all...It is...different this time...
LMAO
Same as it ever was.
It rains on both the righteous and the wicked.
Besides the Liberals in the Pacific Northwest are Godless. There is less church attendance there than anywhere else in the Nation.
God is not a respecter of persons.
So that curse is utter bullshit.
The State created this shortage when they flushed out the reservoirs a few years ago. That was an intentional act.
They are banking on the forgetfulness of the public....which is not a bad bet.
Ass backwards
Catch water from showers, laundry and dishwashers to flush the toilets. This technology is fairly simple and readily available. Houses can be retrofit to accommodate the systems.
If swimming pools are necessary than collect the water that overruns and definitely catch every drop when the pool is drained.
Celebrities are never ecofriendly. They're all living in energy and water consuming mega mansions that could house an entire African tribe.
yeah, put a 5-gallon costco detergent bin in the shower and pour it in the toilet to flush. Sorry, that is all the directions you need. :)
On the key the worst segment- exceptional LOL
Where are the rainmakers now?
Remember about a decade ago they were talking about returning Hetch Hetchy to nature.... ha ha ha... plan much?
I think that we should federally fund one way plane tickets to Greece for people that want to leave Commiefornia.
Black Rifle for Prez!!
Change you can believe in
Good. Nobody likes Californians. Half the world wants to see them dead, and the other half only suffering. Nasty, vile, godless creatures! Liberal disease is universally hated... everywhere.
not as much as your ilk are
It is no secret that I am no friend of your liberal Western kind, plague. But kudos to you for noticing that fact, libtard. It is no small feat making such an observation for your kind, let me tell you. You should be proud of yourself. Be aware though, libtard plague, that your are even hated inside the West, as you can witness here, so just imagine how much more hate you are able to generate in the lands which find your corrupting, vile, degenerate culture disgusting, repugnant and repulsive. Throughout history, liberal plague, corrupting influeces had been crushed and extinguished unanimously almost everywhere in the world (except in some parts of Africa that is), until it became a norm in your Western lands to cultivate your liberal disease and spread it around the world. Nowadays only those cultures which have managed to survieve the invasion of liberal Western plague still uphold to that ancient tenet of morality, and I happen to come from one of such. Like I said, good for you for noticing enmity toward your liberal plague, scum.
Good to hear from you Pat Robertson.
Sadly CA has a lot of God fearing, honest and decent people who are being destroyed. A few military types in So Cal too who still believe that MIC - we are at endless war bullshit too. Maybe they will wake up someday.
I feel really bad for the good people still stuck in that hell hole. It is such a pretty place destroyed by evil liberal scum.
"I feel really bad for the good people still stuck in that hell hole. "
Ain't nobody "stuck" anywhere. Except those who are in prison of course.
My bet was it sliding off into the ocean, never thought about it just drying up and blowing away. Etiher way works for me
Build a wall around it though. I don't want those disfunctional Orcs moving anywhere else. Let them keep their life style, Caitlyn and all!
I still don't care about any of California's problems..... everything can be traced back to their own folly.
"Some of my readers have suggested that desalination is the answer."
Yes, it is.
"But the truth is that desalination is very expensive and it is really bad for the environment."
Kinda yes AND an emphatic no.
1) Expense is a relative term isn't it? "Very expensive" as opposed to selling your property at a loss and relocating?
2) The Tampa Bay area did desal because of the population growth and pumping the ground water under them led to salt water intrusion of that very gound water long LONG ago. AND (in the case of Pinellas county) sucking all the water from under Pasco county to the north led to, how should we term that?...water wars.
2a) Their first? attempt was I believe at the Oldsmar plant. Yes, they had to exxxxxxtend the pipe carrying the brine further out into Tampa Bay because it made THAT PART of the bay too salty. They positioned the plant wrong, the tides didn't flush/mix the salt back in enough, its at the top of the bay, not much water movement as a result of simple geography.
Desal works, yeah its not as cheap as having an abundance of water to pipe anywhere you want it for whatever purpose you want it for but you'll die without it.
Kalifornia dreamin, of bullet trains and open cities ;-)
Why not dehydrate the brine and sell it as solar salt?
fear porn, and not even good fear porn.
c'mon tyler, get real.
Next time you're thirsty, remember it's just fear porn...
No mention of the 300 billion gallons diverted away from inland farms and into the Pacific through the bay area delta in 2010, all to "save a 3-inch fish"....
Sick that they get away with this kind of smelt.
"the desalination process itself pollutes the ocean with high concentration salt brine that kills marine ecosystems and destroys ocean life along the California coastline."
Where there is a problem, there is a solution. We have a salt plant in California so the answer is for California to pay for desalination and pump the brine to our plant as waste disposal for free. We could process it into salt and call it Sea Salt to get a premium price, although all salt starts as sea salt. A true win-win solution.
I'd love to buy some Premium Sea Salt with added Strontium-90 and Cesium-137.
Damn rain again. interrupted my mowing. this 2.5 acre lawn is already 12" high. it's going to be the death of me.
I invented a water-powered lawn mower, so I can water my lawn while I mow it.
It uses a hydraulic motor to spin the blades.
Only downside is I have to drag the hose around behind me.
Only fools waste precious time and energy mowing a God damned lawn.
Try doing something productive, like planting trees.
As unsympathtic I am toward Californians, they do grow our food . . . if Calif dries up we all lose.
Here's an idea.
Grow your own food.
Everybody should practice this valuable, independence-building skill while it is still a hobby and an option rather than the cold hard facts of life for hungry people wanting to live.
In many states you will be arrested for this and they will size your house and steal your kids.
If they take the kids, they can have the house as a lovely "Thank You" gift.
I know right, before california was settled and developed and owned by 5 giant corporations, we had no food.
Everyone thought California drew people because of the gold rush. It was really the discovery of food. Before california was discovered we never knew about food.
I really hate to go back to the days when we had no food. I've kinda grown to love food.
Moderation is the key.
No, we will have plenty of food with no country of origin label so you can pretend it's AMERICAN MADE.
I don't really know what to say...
If California is serious:
1) Close open boarders
2) Stop threatening higher prices and fines as a solution to the problem
3) Import water from outside California. Build a pipeline, put in on trains, etc...
4) Build sewage recycling plants for the purpose of drinking water
5) Invest in desalinization plants
It's a surprise to me to hear that California isn't already "toilet-to-tap".
Here in the great Centennial State, we treat all of our sewage and then dump it back into the river so it goes downstream to Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas.
I presume they do the same thing and then send it down to Arkansas and Louisiana.
In fact, I kind of thought that was one of those mandatory EPA thingys even if it wasn't just a good idea.
But it wouldn't surprise me to find out that the authors of the idea (in California) exempted themselves from its execution and are now paying the price.
As for desalinization plants dumping brine back into the ocean-- wtf?
It's salt. Lay your brine out into brine pools and make freakin California Natural Sea Salt with the shit. Just like everyone else who makes sea salt.
Post open-air atomic testing and pre-Fukushima (or better, pre-Chernobyl), perhaps there was a window for marketing upscale snacks with 'sea salt'. Now, you cannot get away from the crap, they put it in everything. Looked the other day for a bag of mixed nuts (at Target) and they all have fuckin' sea salt. No thanks, keep your desalination waste products out of my food supply.
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE PLEASE EXPLAIN!!!
Why do they say this "the desalination process itself pollutes the ocean with high concentration salt brine that kills marine ecosystems and destroys ocean life along the California coastline."
California could take several billion gallons of water every week, leave the salt in the ocean, and there is no way to pollute the ocean with "salt brine". Consider the following facts:
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there are over 332,519,000 cubic miles of water on the planet. A cubic mile is the volume of a cube measuring one mile on each side. Of this vast volume of water, NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center estimates that 321,003,271 cubic miles is in the ocean.
That's enough water to fill about 352,670,000,000,000,000,000 gallon-sized milk containers!
How Much of that water evaporates every day??
Let's see, on average, the sun takes around 2,915,304,079 gallons of water from the ocean every SECOND (around 4,414.25 Olympic size swimming pools). Which will be around 92 quadrillion gallons per year, give or take a few million gallons.
So your question of how much water from the ocean evaporates on a sunny day (24 hours) is: 2,915,304,079 gallons x 60 seconds x 60 minutes x 24 hours = 251,018,272,425,600 (251 trillion gallons, give or take a few billion gallons, for sure.)
How Much Salt?
In every liter of water, there are 35 grams of salt, or about 3.5% of the weight of sea water comes from salts.
According to the USGS, there is enough salt in the ocean so that if you removed it and spread it evenly over the Earth's surface, it would be a layer about 500 feet thick.
HOW CAN HARVESTING A FEW BILLION GALLONS OF WATER each week POLLUTE THE OCEAN WITH SALT???????
the salt they are putting back came from the ocean, it's already there.
Can someone please explain this?
Here are two technical papers for you to review that explain the issues in great length and depth...
http://www.ijmer.com/papers/Vol2_Issue4/EX2427562761.pdf
Chapter 4 of the "Handbook of Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Volume Two: Systems, Pollution ..."
The section on Desalination and the Environment...
https://books.google.com/books?id=HEzSBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA42&lpg=PA42&dq=desal...
The problem with the "back of the napkin" calcs in your post is you are not incorporating all of the aspects of the issues... ie the issue is much more complex and dynamic.
Thats a bunch of bullshit.
It is complex and dynamic, but really not that much. The papers you posted were typical rent/grant seeking model based literature reviews.
In other words a lot of "maybes", "might" and "but"... Lots of weasel words as they say.
It all boils down (sorry) to common sense.
But we all know there is a great shortage of that commodity, especially on the West Coast.
In reality, things will go along until there is a major breaking point and then the SWHTF.
The last few indigenous populations who were faced with a drought in this area either died off or went someplace else....
so I scanned the first document, I guess all I can say is don't tell the fish there's a bunch of salt in that water, it might scare them. Wait, do fish like sea salt on their chips?
Wait till california finds out the sun is stealing trillions of gallons of fresh water right off their shoreline. I bet they ban the sun.
I really liked this part:
Many literature reviews have focused on quantify the impact of brine on the physical, chemical as well as biological characteristics of marine environment (RPS 2009)
Several published review article and case studies quote ambiguous peer reviewed literature, and present little or no empirical data to support statements regarding the environmental effects of brine discharge (Roberts, Johnston & Knott 2010). A wide range of potential impacts have been identified due to the brine discharge but only few of the literature scientifically observed the authentic effect of discharge on marine communities around discharge outlets (Skinner 2008)
Although so many desalination plants have been constructed in different parts of the world the availability of data on the impacts of their discharge is very little (RPS 2009).
I especially like how we jump from that to "the desalination process itself pollutes the ocean with high concentration salt brine that kills marine ecosystems and destroys ocean life".
I wonder what the brine concetration level would be in order to , "raise the temperature and salinity of the Pacific Ocean and kill entire ecosystems"? Better call Morton Salt, I think we may need a few truck loads.
Figures don't lie, but liars figure.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
When an ocean oil spill occurs, by your logic it should be no problem at all because there is so much water in the ocean that it wouldn't even amount to a drip. The problem with that reasoning is that spills create local pools of pollutants (oil, radiation, salt, etc) that take years to dissipate into the ocean proper (and due to prevailing currents, some might never).
Continuously pouring massive amounts of salt into the ocean will create a very high concentration of brine near the shore and create a problem for any living creatures there. Certainly over time, and if the salt polution were stopped, then the ocean along the shore would return to normal concentrations as it disspipated. But if you have numerous salt producing plants continually shoving salt into the waters, then it never gets a chance to dissipate.
Try thinking - it really helps.
"When an ocean oil spill occurs"
Oil is poisonous, carcinogenic, and does not mix with water. That's what makes it so dangerous to ocean life. An oil spill is nothing like a slightly higher salt concentration in one small area.
"Continuously pouring massive amounts of salt into the ocean will create a very high concentration of brine near the shore and create a problem for any living creatures there."
So don't just dump it near the shore. How difficult would it really be to build a pipeline going, say, a mile or two out into the ocean?
"Try thinking - it really helps."
And your alternative solution to desalinization is what, exactly?
I do have a solution....it's just not one that will be adopted by anyone for the next 600 years.
The claim I call into question states: "the desalination process itself pollutes the ocean". Really? The whole ocean?
Your chain of reasoning is so flawed. "Continuously poring massive amounts of salt into the ocean"? The net addition of salt to the ocean is zero. The net addition to the local area is zero. You will have a saline increase in a very concentrated area. I'll bet the salinity declines following the inverse-square law. In any case, the wild eye statements of massive fish kills and ocean die offs is ridiculous.
There are so many flaws in your logic it'd just be a waste of time to delineate them. I recommend you do it a lot less thinking; maybe your headache will subside.
Repeat after me, the solution to salt pollution is dilution.
good luck desalinating radioactive sea water rippling from fukishima the last several years
The drought is an engineering problem.
China would have this resolved.
Guys, in 1,000 years we will laugh about this.
WE won't.
Speak for yourself, peon! I'm planning to upload myself into a computer one day.
What an ass wipe report.... so the report cites National Geo... which cites work done by the PaleClimate research at U of A.....
So let go back to the cited U of Arizina report and put things in "context"...
"Paleoclimatic evidence suggests drought in the mid-12th century far exceeded the severity, duration, and extent of subsequent droughts. The driest decade of this drought was anomalously warm, though not as warm as the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The convergence of prolonged warming and arid conditions suggests the mid-12th century may serve as a conservative analogue for severe droughts that might occur in the future. The severity, extent, and persistence of the 12th century drought that occurred under natural climate variability, have important implications for water resource management. The causes of past and future drought will not be identical but warm droughts, inferred from paleoclimatic records, demonstrate the plausibility of extensive, severe droughts, provide a long-term perspective on the ongoing drought conditions in the Southwest, and suggest the need for regional sustainability planning for the future"
http://www.pnas.org/content/107/50/21283.full.pdf+html
This is a shit load worse than main stream media is telling you...
Yes, that is excellent historical data. That part of the West Coast is essentially desert.
Add a few million more heavy water users and you are in deep shit when the next drought eventually happens.
And then there's this:
" Not only does desalination use fossil fuels which emit the very same carbon emissions that the California government insists caused the drought in the first place, the desalination process itself pollutes the ocean with high concentration salt brine that kills marine ecosystems and destroys ocean life along the California coastline."
How could carbon emissions possibly cause all the historical droughts recorded in the last few thousand years in this area?
How could some additional salt brine even begin to concentrate in the quadrillions of gallons of ocean water.
If you are really worried about that impossibility, then put an outlet pipe far enough off shore so that it mixes up with a major current.
And then there's the normal Fukishima blather about radiation damage, when it isn't even detectable.
The ocean is a very biggy big and a very deepy, deep thing (they used to teach that in kindergarten).
Gack!
"Paleoclimatic evidence suggests drought in the mid-12th century far exceeded the severity, duration, and extent of subsequent droughts. The driest decade of this drought was anomalously warm, though not as warm as the late 20th and early 21st centuries."
Further study will reveal that the mid-12th century drought coincided with the peak and subsequent decline of the nearby Hohokam civilization.
It was their massive irrigation canals and agricultural system, and clearing/grazing of the land which destroyed the land and caused the drought, by further depleting the forests and greenery, which reduced rainfall in that area over time.
Sound familiar?
Everybody forgot the Oklahoma dust bowl days. Change the environment in big maassive ways and you end up with big scale disasters. Too much of a good thing can become a horror story .Okies will never forget.Mono crop agriculture of that magnitude is just asking for problems . Slow and sustainable growth never made more sense than today.
It ain't over until the fat lady collapses from dehydration.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
The real reason nobody is talking about desalination is that Real Housewives will go apeshit if anybody builds a plant near their "dream home" and ruins their view of the Pacific.
The reason nobody is charging farmers market prices is that Real Housewives will go apeshit if their almond milk quintuples in price.
So, the Real Housewives will show up in Sacramento and make a nuisance of themselves demanding free water "for the children." Because their husbands are really rich and lawmakers need their contributions, they'll be heard.
Everyone else will stand in line for hours for their ration and either learn to like it or move back to Iowa.
Two Years Before the Mast is a memoir by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr., published in 1840
I read this book once when I was stationed at the naval training center San Diego, and then again a few years ago. A Harvard student with eye problems signs on to sail the Horn to the California coast in the 1840's. First stop San Diego, later Montery and Los Angeles. In San Diego harbor, he describes the rattle snake infested desert all around the harbor and Mission Town. Up in the Mission of LA, same thing. Little bit of scrub and desert, everywhere. This was 1800's a few decades before the big wet set in. Nobody cares to check history, people just assumed the South of California good good heavy rains in the winter, and the moutains piled high with snow pack every winter. NOT SO! History had already recorded what that place is, a desert. The old Spanish records record an even worse desert than Dana saw.
Good book.
Dana was an Assistant Secretary of War (if I remember correctly) in the Lincoln Administration.
Simply to allay a modicum of your fears, the rich will be just fine and thank you ever so much for your concern. They suck DEVIL DICK. They pay their way.
I'm gonna apologize in advance in the unlikely event that there's any "big" CLEAN money anywhere, forget the Californicated.
When they de-populate, we must make sure they lose a proportional number of electoral votes.
California's epic drought: a shortage of water or longage of people?
http://www.capsweb.org/caps-issues/california%E2%80%99s-epic-drought-shortage-water-or-longage-people-state-has-39-million-people-%E2%80%A6
This HAARP Report explains how The Powers that Be (TPTB) are keeping CA in an unprecedented drought. I believe the motive is to scare the public with a bogus climate change event so the globalists can come to power as the new climate-change police enforcing a carbon tax on fossil fuel consumers.
It's all a rich mans trick. Funny that Obozo in his state of the Union speech unexpectedly said at the end, after all the economic challenges we face, that climate change was our greatest problem. Huh?
Understand Obozo has CIA/globalists roots and he's their agent bringing about this globalist power grab.
Five pieces of evidence suggesting that California drought may be a HAARP-manufactured eventNaturalNews) California is embroiled in a crisis of epic proportions as it continues to struggle through one of the worst droughts in state history.
But emerging evidence suggests that the Golden State's water woes aren't a natural occurrence at all, and that a covert military operation involving "chemtrails" and other weather modification weaponry may be to blame.
A recent episode of The HAARP Report, which tracks the activities of the U.S. military's so-called "High Frequency Auroral Research Program" (which the federal government
falsely claims has been shut down), provides five pieces of compelling evidence from recently captured satellite imagery that points to deliberate weather modification as the cause of California's drought.
You may have heard of "chemtrails" before -- those unnatural-looking cloud trails occasionally produced by airplanes that don't dissipate normally, and that end up blanketing the skies with a hazy muck.
They differ entirely from water vapor contrails produced when water vapor condenses and freezes around small aerosol particles released from aircraft exhaust.
The following image shows a sky filled with chemtrails:
For years, many of those who've been paying attention have wondered what the purpose is of these clearly artificial chemtrails. Well, based on the extensive research findings by The HAARP Report, it seems as though these fake sprayings are helping to redirect and alter weather patterns -- in this case, to steer rain away from California.
"Chemtrails create a hot air layer at 30,000 feet, capping inversion," explains the report. "
They [the powers that be] want that to overrun this low pressure area and prevent this low pressure from forming," as low pressure is what produces precipitation, explains the report.
Fukushima: a cover for HAARP and chemtrail-induced atmospheric damage killing our planetA HAARP Report video posted to YouTube on April 19, 2015, lists the following five pieces of evidence suggesting that California's drought is a man-made attack on Californians:
1) Low pressure areas out in the Pacific Ocean that would normally move in a counterclockwise direction have been detected moving in an anomalous clockwise direction.
The HAARP Report, highlighting exclusive imagery captured on April 10, 2015, shows a "burst" of clockwise, high pressure cloud movement that would never occur naturally, and that clearly suggests weather manipulation activity meant to break up cloud formation and prevent precipitation.
More on how this is accomplished through ionospheric heating is explained in the video report:
YouTube.com.
2) After breaking up the areas of low pressure that would have produced rain for California, HAARP's weather weaponry and associated chemtrails generate areas of very dry air that, under normal circumstances, would be humid.
Satellite imagery captured in the days following April 10 show this dry air sitting stagnant rather than rotating, breaking up the potential formation of thunderstorms.
3) As it turns out, HAARP's weather manipulation machines can only operate when the D layer in the ionosphere has formed, which occurs after the sun has been up for three or four hours and ends in the evening. In the video,
The HAARP Report shows how a storm that starts to pop up during this window of time is literally pushed to the right and destroyed. Dry air is pressed down,
and once again the center is not moving in a counterclockwise direction as it should.
4) Looking again at a massive area of dry air brought about by HAARP and chemtrails, the report points out how satellite imagery of a ring of rising air and a central column of falling air captured at 10 a.m. in California on April 9 proves that a
HAARP downburst sent high pressure descending air into the jet stream, once again preventing rain.
5) As this air descends, it just keeps getting bigger and bigger in the satellite imagery. And as it begins to reform, another HAARP downburst is observed on the north side of the front, with a signature clockwise flow around a high pressure area as it's sent downward.
Put simply, the developing storm was basically broken up by HAARP, where it later reformed around Mexico and sent rain over New Mexico and Texas rather than California.
"Don't think for a minute that this drought in California is natural. They're using a variety of techniques to maintain this drought," warns The HAARP Report.
"The oceans are dying because of increasing ultraviolet-B. The modern HAARP transmitters punch holes in the ozone layer, since they must drive a plasmoid from 30 miles high down to the jet stream... mixing the chemtrails vertically, which breaks down the protective ozone layer."
"The Pacific is dying because the base of the food chain, phyto-plankton, are being killed by the high UV-B, created by ionospheric heaters.
Radiation from Fukushima is killing the Pacific, but not as fast as the lack of plankton, which can't survive the high UV-B. Fukushima is being used as a 'cover' for the excess UV-B caused by HAARP and chemtrails.
That would explain the complete lack of action to stop the radiation from leaking into the Pacific."
Be sure to watch the full HAARP Report video here:
Sources:
https://youtu.be
http://www.haarp.net
http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org
What has to be done?
1. Get rid of the stupid liberals running California
2. Get rid of the stupid illegals
3. Get rid of your lawns...embrace the desert.
4. Get rid of those planes spraying you daily. Geoengineering shit. Maybe you should buy a patriot system.
5. Hekp the fucking Japs with Fuqcalishima. Seriously, take a look and use those silicon brains to figure out a containment system.
6. Import water from Washington State, Cancada, or Great lakes via pipelines. Share your wealth for water. Fucking pigs.
Conservatives are dumb or even dumber-they were the ones who built the suburbs all the way to the foothiils-for a quick buck
And we in Washington have nothing to export. The mountains have been barren of snow for a month-ive driven to the passes in June and seen 15 foot drifts in the past.
We are now in a water emergency-and Seattle is no longer the soggy rainy city it once was....no brown lawns, but a lot fewer days to stay in and read or watch a movie
Havent had any real snow for 8 years
Population of CA 38.8 million. Agriculture (primarily Central Valley) uses circa 80% of CA water. The CA central valley is the most productive agricultural land in the world, supplying the US with fruits and veggies. The drought is going to force CA to deal with ecological realities- something that the “beautiful people” in CA are not accustomed to. Bottom line- is this sustainable?
Problem here is that the agriculture in California only contributes 2% to the state GDP. It's at about $2.2T, and even by the broadest calculation, it's only 5%. If all agriculture got nuked overnight, you'd see a 4.5% hit to the GDP. It would drop from 2.2T to 2.1T.
50% of the water is "lost" to environment preservation. 10% is urban, and 40% is agriculture. The 50% is off limits. So it's more like 20% urban and 80% agriculture. Pissing away 80% of the water to generate 4.5% of the GDP? Crying that any increased costs will ruin their viability? Oh fucking well, the rest of us had to fucking adapt, the farmers decided to hire illegals instead to cut costs. It's time for them to face reality. Stop the almonds and presto, the problem is solved.
You can say that again.
Population of CA 38.8 million. Agriculture (primarily Central Valley) uses circa 80% of CA water. The CA central valley is the most productive agricultural land in the world, supplying the US with fruits and veggies. The drought is going to force CA to deal with ecological realities- something that the “beautiful people” in CA are not accustomed to. Bottom line- is this sustainable?
Population of CA 38.8 million. Agriculture (primarily Central Valley) uses circa 80% of CA water. The CA central valley is the most productive agricultural land in the world, supplying the US with fruits and veggies. The drought is going to force CA to deal with ecological realities- something that the “beautiful people” in CA are not accustomed to. Bottom line- is this sustainable?
Population of CA 38.8 million. Agriculture (primarily Central Valley) uses circa 80% of CA water. The CA central valley is the most productive agricultural land in the world, supplying the US with fruits and veggies. The drought is going to force CA to deal with ecological realities- something that the “beautiful people” in CA are not accustomed to. Bottom line- is this sustainable?
Obviously not.
So how many billions of gallons of fresh water are being shipped abroad now?
I live in SE Illinois...Wettest May and June in history, most of our cropland is flooded, hundreds of thousands of acres will never be replanted, just abandoned.....8" rain since Monday....forecast for 8-10 more before Tuesday....just had a 2" downpour in 35 minutes.....
I'm sick of listening to Drought Doom Porn...seriously....they're watering golf courses and lawns just as always......water seems to be coming from somewhere....read where El Nino will bring flooding there later this summer. All is well.
This comment represents a significant part of the problem - denial. Foolish talk and uninformed.
This is very interesting. If you think about it, the people in California are in denial about what's happening. And this is over a tangible, physical thing. No wonder the rest of the population doesn't react to the less tangible ideas of failing financial institutions and the real threat of nuclear war. I guess they'll believe there's a water problem when it stops coming out of their faucets. Maybe.
China Lake here we go again. Do you think that a country like China would balk at running a river from up north down to LA? Hell no. The only reason they won't do it in the US is because the corporations and banks want to buy up that land before they put the river in. Hint BTFD in San Jauquin Valley farmland.
Just waiting for the long lines of Californians, driving their overloaded BMW convertibles, heading back to Oklahoma!
If you want to see what California is naturally like, drive across the border to Northern Baja.
You will notice the difference as the green lawns and trees aren't there and trees are few and far between.
Agreed. Empty pools and brown grass first!
If you REALLY want to see what California is naturally like, go back 10,000+ years before humans arrived.
Lush, tropical rainforest.
Others have said it here - go grab the ocean water. If there is no rain, the you have lots of sun. Pump in ocean water, set up a big solar still, and you get pure water. What salt you don't sell as California 'sea salt' you just store in Death Valley. Why aren't they doing this? The environmentalists don't want it!
They have one now, it is called the Salton Sea :)
Another 10 or 20 million immigrants into California should solve it. America is a country entrenched with diversity especially liberally minded Californians. They should continue welcoming people from all over the world to share what water they have left because... shared sacrifice. Californians don't need green lawns but Mexican, Libyan, Syrian, Somali, and other poor people do need jobs and welfare and California is the perfect place for them.
Who cares Americas screwed.
Why not desalinate and sell the salt to areas that get winter snow and ice?
Your weed really sucks, so maybe you will stop sending it!
It is said that when the ruler of a nation is evil; the nature turns its back.
You have the world ruled by HomosexualSodomizers&Cocksuckers like BarackHussainObammaApuppetOfGreedyCabalsCapitalists&Banksters
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Also Eat eat eat Warren Buffet have your large buffet from the money earned by selling Coca-Cola which contributes to major CO2 release in the atmosphere. If the world warms so what? But YOU have your fill.
Live and Let (others) Die
In Six Feet Under (c.a. 2004) there was a character, George, a geology professor who got obsessed with nascent water crisis and how world war iii will be fought over water (of course later on he went nuts with paranoia). At the time I thought they were just making this up. Shit just got real.
why not telling the farmers to fuck off? ok, sure they grow a lot of stuff, but GDP-wise they don't contribute that much, the jobs they "create" all go to illegals, and they use 80% of the water that's up for grabs. Ban the fucking almonds and problem is magically solved. The marginal gains no longer offset the losses. The restrictions on water usage for residential are so fucking pointless and minimal that it's not even funny.
Here's how it needs to work: No more fucking "water rights". The fuckers have to pay for what they use like everyone else. And if that drives up the price of almonds ever so slightly that it's no longer cheaper than the next most viable producer... then tough fucking shit.
If you check your news feed you will see California has cut off those farmers, when they cut 100% of their 100 year old water rights last week.
The govenor did not cut one drop of water to the state's oil industry for fracking. Which seems strange as the Hollyweirds blame oil for the drought.
side note...I actuall came back to your original comment to change my down vote to a up vote...basically you are right...make everyone pay for every drop of water, and see where the shit falls.
If the competition gains market share, so be it. Maybe California producers and consumers across North America have been coddled and subsidized too long. If food triples in price, other areas will start to grow it.
Dune Stillsuits.
That's the answer to this.
They should try the deathstills first.
That would make you a p!ss drinker and sh*teater, literally.
surely bombing some society out of existence
will solve the problem
any suggestions, you exceptional amis?
tick tock
I think that 'they' are trying to get the Russians to do it, but the Russians are not 'buying' that contract.
some time earlier:
"Angkor Wat Has Never Experienced A Water Crisis Of This Magnitude – And The Worst Is Yet To Come" as we know only too well.We can put a man on the moon but can we get water to California?
That drought is bad no question about it but water crisis is so far man made.
Again it looks like orchestrated hysteria to desperately pump/dump some stocks before inevitable correction and/or fleece millions of Americans and quoting only lying MSM is lame for people from eCONomic Collapse blog which suppose to be about economic and financial collapse completely absent from MSM. Very conveniently has also been omitted NOAA report of huge el Nino developed in equatorial Pacific with potential to end drought in California as early as next year or 2-3 years.
The California has been taken over by Wall Street hacks already at least two decades ago including current governor and his wife but true issue here is another attempt to fleecing people by Hedge Funds creating hysteria of water crisis as something new or particularly acute. It is not. It is the same story, water politics in California as usual. For example in southern California water reservoirs levels are the same or higher than last year after unusual and record rain in May, 2015.
The dramatic announcement by governor of mandatory 25% cut in residential usage, which is 12% of total usage, is not mandatory but rather green light to utility to raise (again) basic water rates which they did by eliminating middle price tiers.
Rich from Palo Alto or Bell Air will be able to afford it. Again it is another political stunt by governor in his all familiar clown routine which would reduce total usage only 4-5% while water deficit officially is as high as 40% while frackers, bottled water, bulk water exporters, almond, wine industry as well as water parks etc., using quarter of total water available remains untouched or asked to conserve within any means of verification or penalty.
Ratepayers are being robed, small business and small farms are being destroyed, neighbor denounces neighbor on twitter for a crime of broken sprinkler head, while CALTRANS nonstop watering dry rocks,and this is what it’s all about, spawning hysteria and mistrust.
The fact is that California Water Authority DID NOT even follow most important governor demands and did not imposed any type of serious enforcement or penalties if goals are not met.
Again, this is just a talk and only regarding 12% of all California water demand. And silence about the rest. Residential usage of water dropped dramatically since 2008 not as much as conscientious conservation effort but due to severe economic crisis and large migration out of state. Many cities already achieve 40% or more percent of savings by conservation as well as by investment in recycling and reuse and cannot continue with cuts without severe impact on economy, property values and most of all their ability to repay the incurred debt or financing water investments.
Again and again lots of noise and no real action to stop industrial.
Much more honest and balanced take on current situation in California, that distinguishes between drought and man-made water crisis I found at.
https://sostratusworks.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/california-waterworld-of...
I live in the Rhine valley in middle Netherlands. No water problems here unless there is above average snowfall in the Alps and it turns suddenly warm. But thats why people here are starting to build homes on stilts.
don' worry none...it gon' rain rain rain 'til d'sewahs back up bruthahs...jus' like d'EBT come rainin' on down to d'po' nigrows...
If I would ever move back to the USA (which will NEVER happen) I would live in Michigan., Lots of fresh water.
Lots of fresh water in Michigan now that everyone has left Detroit
you mean ..like out the toilet?
I ain't never seen no plants growing out of a toilet.
Breaking News
July 2016. Torrential rains devastate California with huge mudslides.
People cursing mother nature.
Build some big pipes from Lake Superior. If Khadaffi could do this sort of project in backwards Libya, it would seem something within the realms of possibility for the USA.
I worked for Ghaddaffi govt in 2002-2003. USA/NATO destroyed that country and NOW Europe is suffering for it. Those thousands of refugees coming into Europe. Ghaddaffi was loved in Africa everywhere we flew him and his ministers. He gave billions in humanitarian aid (NOT weapons) Photos here when I was flying there (based in Tripoli).
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b7h6bqkvl46q7vj/AAD3yL68363n_qDF2qacfuXta?dl=0
Funny you mention that. Saw pictures of Iraq or Iran in the late fifties. People resembled Americans pretty much. Women were dressed the same, no religeous garb. There were modern vehicles on a main street. Things didn't look so bad there at all.
Knew a woman from China who lived in LA. She went home to visit family and returned. About 20 years ago. She showed me pictures of her father's office, family and home. I looked at her, "what are you doing over here?"
There are many myths and out and out lies that most Americans believe. Iraq under Saddam was one of the most modern countries in the region. Women wore normal western style clothing and even had positions in govt.
It still pisses me off when the idiot USA military goons spouted the bullshit lies their govt fed them about Saddam.
Saddam was an asshole. But no more or less an asshole than any of the other assholes running shit in the world today. Just an asshole of a different flavor, for those so inclined...
To say that someone like a Saddam is so very different from many of the leaders of so-called modern nations is naive. The only difference is that he lived in a region where he could get away with more. His American or European versions have less latitude perhaps, but that's like saying your psycho-freak dog is 'safe' because you have his leash in your hand. Yeah, until you don't. So-called civilized nations have shown themselves fully capable of barbarity when it suits them.
And maybe someone like a Saddam has a more hands-on approach, but whether your leaders order your death from afar or execute it themselves personally, does it really matter to YOU?
There are many myths and out and out lies that most Americans believe. Iraq under Saddam was one of the most modern countries in the region. Women wore normal western style clothing and even had positions in govt.
It still pisses me off when the idiot USA military goons spouted the bullshit lies their govt fed them about Saddam.
Saddam was a psychopath and like all psychopaths had his followers.
He just wasn't a muslim fanatic psychopath and embraced western technology.
His psychopath sons made much of Iraq a living hell.
You would not want to live under a Saddam Hussein.
I used to fly freight to Baghdad before the USA destroyed it.
I see you fell hook, line and sinker for the LIES of your govt.,
You really don't have a fucking clue.
Sad that americans are that brainwashed.
I bet you believe the incubator story also that was debunked later on.
SMDH
Unless you want to bore that pipeline at 600' elivation and sink the pumping stations, the energy (costs) needed well surpasses the costs and infastructure costs of desalination. As for the Columbia, well they will male the pipe go from Hanford to California and we will be able to tell if you drink that water by your 'healthy glow'. How about some water from Hot Springs AR?
if overpopulation is a problem then it was enabled by over industrialization and technological advances which was enabled and financed by decades of endless money printing in a fiat system.
Give me a break. Northern half of California has gotten a lot of rain the past month. As for the south half...isn't it called the Mojave desert??
Where specifically? Just checked the 2015 monthly precip for Redding, CA. They are way, way behind on precip.
http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KRDD/2015/1/19/MonthlyCalend...
Mercans should finally cotton on; "God" ain't too impressed by the reptilians running "God's country".
So we can build pipelines for oil that stretch across Alaska and the entire continent of Europe, but we can't build pipelines from where the rain is falling to where it isn't in America?
Even the Romans built aqueducts and they had no machines.
If they took all the EBT folks, gave them a raise and had them carrying stuff to make a waterway, it could be done.
California would realize a much greater ROI by shipping all the EBT people (back) to Mexico
Just use all the "EBT folk" and make a bucket brigade to Lake Superior.
If California wants to pay to build pipelines, sure. They waste money on silly things like high speed rail.
Welcome to the new normal Cal. Good is bad, right is wrong, up is down, more is less, justice is crime, and a rainy day is a sunny day.
http://thespiritscience.net/2014/09/02/the-water-tower-that-creates-wate...
Maybe this will be the solution in the future. It seems to do wonders in Ethiopia.
Anything potentially FREE (after initial investmen) is a Total NO NO in the USA.
What, no water from the teats of the Fed ?
The Californian desert.
It has a ring to it.
If cities cannot be sustained in California, people will start moving out and tax revenues will fall.
So how long before municipal bonds start collapsing in California?
California is a beautiful place full of horrible people. If 80% of them have to leave it could only be an improvement.