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re: The U.S.'s largest reservoir, Lake Mead, is literally drying up (pictures)
Posted on 5/19/22 at 8:44 am to doubleb
Posted on 5/19/22 at 8:44 am to doubleb
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Is it the worst drought ever, or is it because more folks are taking the water?
Combination, but mostly due to population growth in dry climates.
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Posted on 5/19/22 at 8:44 am to JetDawg
Ya wanna know why?
A huge part is that the idiots on commie-fornia have been intentionally draining their reservoirs into the sea.
Katy Grimes has been writing about this extensively over the last few years in the California Globe.
Desalination plants would go a long way to solve many of CAs water issues.
I think there are several desalination plants along the coast of CA already in operation.
One was just voted down around the San Diego area that was being 'studied' of 20 years.
Someone(s) made lots of money off of that one, eh?
They talk about the 'brine' excess but the Israeli's have come up with a system that takes care of that.
Even pretty-boy Newsome has been pushing desalination plants for the last few years.
A huge part is that the idiots on commie-fornia have been intentionally draining their reservoirs into the sea.
Katy Grimes has been writing about this extensively over the last few years in the California Globe.
Desalination plants would go a long way to solve many of CAs water issues.
I think there are several desalination plants along the coast of CA already in operation.
One was just voted down around the San Diego area that was being 'studied' of 20 years.
Someone(s) made lots of money off of that one, eh?
They talk about the 'brine' excess but the Israeli's have come up with a system that takes care of that.
Even pretty-boy Newsome has been pushing desalination plants for the last few years.
Posted on 5/19/22 at 8:44 am to JetDawg
Isn’t California the drought you’re talking about?
Posted on 5/19/22 at 8:54 am to Mizooag94
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White supremacy. Put a poc pansexual in charge and that bad boy will fill right up.
Sadly, that could be the actual response from this gd admin.
Posted on 5/19/22 at 8:57 am to JetDawg
This is what happens when people decide to live in a frickING DESERT!
No sane person can bitch about the Somalis and Ethiopians (cue Sam Kinison), and then act surprised when people run out of water in an environment that could support (at best) a quarter of the current population.
No sympathy whatsoever.
No sane person can bitch about the Somalis and Ethiopians (cue Sam Kinison), and then act surprised when people run out of water in an environment that could support (at best) a quarter of the current population.
No sympathy whatsoever.
This post was edited on 5/19/22 at 11:22 am
Posted on 5/19/22 at 9:00 am to AggieHank86
quote:
This is what happens when people decide to live in a frickING DESERT!
No sane person can bitch about the Somalis and Ethiopians (queue Sam Kinison), and then act surprised when people run out of water in an environment that could support (at best) a quarter of the current population.
No sympathy whatsoever.
Especially when they turn down other sources of water and electricity as the population continues to grow out west. Oh well. Either live there and engineer Mother Nature or move out.
Posted on 5/19/22 at 9:00 am to jlovel7
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California is sucking it dry.
They now want to suck water from the Mississippi river to quench their thirst.
Posted on 5/19/22 at 9:00 am to JetDawg
Is God punishing Smut Capital of the USA?
California was once the Garden of the USA.
California was once the Garden of the USA.
Posted on 5/19/22 at 9:02 am to GumboPot
quote:
California is better off setting up desalination plants. But they need energy for that too. Nuclear is the solution.
They are against both.
Posted on 5/19/22 at 9:02 am to ItTakesAThief
quote:Give the man a Kewpie Doll.
The problem is farming and irrigation practices where we have turned desert into farmland through irrigation.
Also it’s a desert it was never meant to have cities like Los Angeles and Las Vegas
So we are clear, this is not just a problem in the West. In my part of Texas, our farmers and ranchers are worried about water, because our water is being piped to San Antonio … another place where millions of people decided to live in a frickING DESERT.
This post was edited on 5/19/22 at 9:07 am
Posted on 5/19/22 at 9:06 am to GumboPot
quote:There was a post on the subject of drought involving Lake Powell and someone mentioned a tech that combines nuclear and desalination that was in the design and testing phase. It may have been you.
California is better off setting up desalination plants. But they need energy for that too. Nuclear is the solution.
Posted on 5/19/22 at 9:09 am to GumboPot
quote:
Not enough upstream rain to meet downstream electricity demand.
So you're saying ever expanding a city in the middle of a desert (Las Vegas) isn't a good idea?
Some baw here in Louisiana could make a fortune if he figured out how to efficiently transport some of the water we get from our annual 80 inches of rain out west.
Posted on 5/19/22 at 9:09 am to Reubaltaich
quote:I thought the one in SD got built, and the one in SanFran got the axe.
One (desalinization plant) was just voted down around the San Diego area that was being 'studied' of 20 years.
Posted on 5/19/22 at 9:11 am to JetDawg
They need to get Elizabeth Warren out there fast to do a rain dance.
Posted on 5/19/22 at 9:13 am to Alt26
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So you're saying ever expanding a city in the middle of a desert (Las Vegas) isn't a good idea?
Vegas uses a fraction of Lake Mead water that California does.
Posted on 5/19/22 at 9:13 am to JetDawg
Just trying to figure out here that if the glaciers are melting at record pace and putting more water into the oceans then how come we're not seeing more weather systems coming in from the oceans and dumping rain on land?
Posted on 5/19/22 at 9:17 am to alpinetiger
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It may have been you.
It wasn't me however I did read the thread on here about San Diego turning down new desalination plants. California does have several desalination plants so apparently they are not generally opposed to the idea. This particular plant looks like it got turned down due to money reasons albeit environmental reason were also cited. LINK
Posted on 5/19/22 at 9:23 am to Penrod
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That’s exactly what Lake Mead was designed to do. We build reservoirs because we know droughts are coming and we want to have water to get through droughts. In 2018 that area was crushed by excessive rainfall and snow. The reason we are having water problems is because in California, for example, no new reservoirs have been built since the state’s population was 24 million. It is now 40 million! If Cali had increased their reservoirs 41%, as their population did, this would not be a crisis. However, that would have endangered some microscopic snail, or something.
I believe its 50 years since they added a decent reservoir, time and time again they have scrapped them. During 2018 I watched a news reporter in front of a river, a friggin runoff that was the size of a river, gushing to the ocean and he said....we will need this water one day....
Posted on 5/19/22 at 9:25 am to JetDawg
Fill it full of baby milk formula
Posted on 5/19/22 at 9:27 am to JetDawg
It's their own stupidity.
They refuse to build desal plants.
They refuse to build desal plants.
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