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re: Why is California drying up?
Posted on 10/15/22 at 10:31 am to Bjorn Cyborg
Posted on 10/15/22 at 10:31 am to Bjorn Cyborg
We have enormous amounts of water here. The desert thing gets overplayed quite a bit. What we don’t do is capture our water like we should during our good years. That’s one of the biggest failings of the environmental wackos. Watch the documentary I posted up above. Farmers are still using the same amount of water they used 40-50 years ago. That’s how much irrigation technology has improved and it will continue to improve because we have no choice. That along with GMO programs that give us drought resistant genes into the seeds are helping to feed all of us.
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Posted on 10/15/22 at 10:54 am to Lisanders88
God's judgment on "dry bones" souls that stay among all the evil that thinks the valley , Hollywood and Big Tech are cool.
Posted on 10/15/22 at 10:57 am to Lisanders88
Couple of studies out there that state much of California is naturally a desert. The last 300 or so years have been unnaturally wet, leading to the agriculture boom.
However, it is reverting back to its natural desert state, maybe the lingering effect of the end of the little Ice Age and the wearing off of several volcanoes that went off in 1600 and 1700s.
Posted on 10/15/22 at 10:57 am to Lisanders88
Why are the pyramids in a desert?
When built, they weren't. shite changes. Constantly.
When built, they weren't. shite changes. Constantly.
Posted on 10/15/22 at 11:10 am to mtntiger
gov newsome floated plan to build infrastructure to hold rain.
ca has $69 billion surplus.
ca has $69 billion surplus.
Posted on 10/15/22 at 11:23 am to Figgy
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We have enormous amounts of water here
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What we don’t do is capture our water like we should during our good years.
Areas with "enormous amounts of water" don't have to worry about capturing it and don't have "good years."
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The desert thing gets overplayed
Deserts in California make up about 25 percent of the total surface area. That's fricking huge.
Posted on 10/15/22 at 12:09 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
1. Live in a desert.
2. Water allocation based on a wetter than normal year.
3. Dump water policies. For example in Las Vegas, Nevada they are required to water the ground of new construction sites to keep down the dust. I am sure their are a hundred other examples I don't know about in that region that waste water.
2. Water allocation based on a wetter than normal year.
3. Dump water policies. For example in Las Vegas, Nevada they are required to water the ground of new construction sites to keep down the dust. I am sure their are a hundred other examples I don't know about in that region that waste water.
Posted on 10/15/22 at 12:18 pm to omegaman66
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I am sure their are a hundred other examples I don't know about in that region that waste water.
Agreed. But my point is that areas with plenty of water, don't worry about wasting it.
Louisiana isn't worried about water conservation. We have more water than we can handle.
California is historically barren and dry. It does not have the water to support its population.
Posted on 10/15/22 at 1:23 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
Bjorn,
It’s a storage and lessening waste problem that we have. We have dry years and wet years. An hour from me I can be in the mountains at 5,000ft with 8-10ft of snow in a bad year. The amount of snow we get here pales in comparison to what Northern California gets. I can look at the mountains that are 50 miles away in July and still see snow also during a dry year. We have white water rapids here too. The population has grown and there’s no denying it plays into things. But we are extraordinarily wasteful as a state with our water and that’s on the environmentalists. There’s little balance here and it impacts everyone. Just like how our forests are abused by the same groups. The forested areas dwarf the amount of desert.
There is plenty of water to support the population here. Consider how much water is used for Ag and how that food goes to wherever you happen to live. If we cut back our ag production the country is completely screwed as are many nations that we export to.
It’s a storage and lessening waste problem that we have. We have dry years and wet years. An hour from me I can be in the mountains at 5,000ft with 8-10ft of snow in a bad year. The amount of snow we get here pales in comparison to what Northern California gets. I can look at the mountains that are 50 miles away in July and still see snow also during a dry year. We have white water rapids here too. The population has grown and there’s no denying it plays into things. But we are extraordinarily wasteful as a state with our water and that’s on the environmentalists. There’s little balance here and it impacts everyone. Just like how our forests are abused by the same groups. The forested areas dwarf the amount of desert.
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California is historically barren and dry. It does not have the water to support its population.
There is plenty of water to support the population here. Consider how much water is used for Ag and how that food goes to wherever you happen to live. If we cut back our ag production the country is completely screwed as are many nations that we export to.
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