California Drought conspiracy.

theprestige said:
Deeply conflicted. In principle, they're a good thing, but in practice, they consume lots of power (CA hates using electricity to improve people's lives), and they have an environmental impact (CA *hates* environmental impact). Against all odds, one is actually being built in the San Diego area. It was supposed to be powered by the nearby San Onofre nuclear power plant, but since that's been shut down, the state commissioners have to go on the talk show circuit trying to reassure people that it's still the best option for the power draw it will have.
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Thanks for the reply.
 
For years, decades even, I have been reading that the Central Valley Aquifer is being sucked dry.

And, hey look, it has been (complete with graph):

http://www.mercurynews.com/drought/...ought-san-joaquin-valley-sinking-farmers-race

The trends are alarming, the politics complex, but the science is rather simple: The Central Valley -- from Redding to Bakersfield -- is consuming twice as much groundwater as nature is returning through rain and snow.

The rate of water loss over the past two years is the largest since the University of California started using NASA satellites to measure underground water reserves in 2003. The Central Valley's reserves are shrinking by 800 billion gallons a year -- enough to supply every resident of California with water for seven months, according to Jay Famiglietti, director of the University of California Center for Hydrologic Modeling.

"We may only be a few decades away from hitting bottom," said Famiglietti, considered one of the leading experts on state water policy.
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:scared:
 
Of course it's the government. They sucked all the water out of California and brought it to Mars so they could prove there is water on Mars, which will allow them to do...something. It's obvious.
 
Crazy Chainsaw said:
Do you guys and gals think there will be a flood conspiracy once El nino rain hits the west coast?
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I think there will be the same 'conspiracy' that's already in effect: a long-term policy in California to not improve the water capture and retention infrastructure. Maybe there's places all that rainwater could go, instead of flooding low-lying communities. Maybe it could be sent to places where it could be stored and then released to do work and improve people's lives.
 
The same loon claimed that the September 2013 Colorado floods were a government conspiracy. His primary piece of "evidence" for this claim was a satellite map of the moisture coming up from Mexico. The map was truncated a bit north of the Pacific ocean. Since he couldn't see that the clouds originated in the ocean, and apparently was geographically challenged enough not to know where the ocean was beyond the end of his map, he concluded that the government somehow manufactured the trillions of gallons of water that flooded Colorado.
 
I have a friend who is getting a degree in water management. The issues are complex. For example, historically the big rivers never ran completely dry (though they might slow to a trickle) and so species of fish would exist there in spite of drought. But that slow trickle is still water left uncaptured so do you build new dams to make sure all the water is diverted to human use in dry years and let those fish species go extinct? So far the answer has been that we are not willing to sacrifice the permanent eradication of those fish for the short term benefits in droughts.

As for desalinization, the issue there, again, is complex. California has a far larger population than any other society that has used that technology to date. People forget that California has more people than both Canada and Australia. And because California is where jobs are the population is continually growing. You can't just build one plant and think it would make a whole lot of difference. You'd need dozens at billions apiece. Then you'd need to figure out how to power the damned things which is an issue since electricity production in California is also problematic. You can't build new nuclear plants because people freak out. Hydro is out for numerous reasons. Natural gas and coal plants can't be built because of air quality regulations. Solar is an option but would need to be vastly expanded. Wind is good but the rural areas where they would work best hate them as eyesores and routinely vandalize their infrastructure.

And this assumes you can get through the draconian environmental regulations for coastal industrial works that were put in back in the 70's to stop offshore oil drilling.
 
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I suspect that advancing the "drought" is just too alluring to most and they will do what they can to continue to justify "drought" as long as possible because of the power and control "crisis situations" bring politicians.
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Ah, more of the "all disasters are fake" mindset.
 
Travis said:
Ah, more of the "all disasters are fake" mindset.
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Is that the same group that thinks the evil gub'mint is driving huge tunnels down into aquifiers of CA and using giant sponges to soak up the water so that Big Water can raise the prices of dehydrated water?
 
Travis said:
Ah, more of the "all disasters are fake" mindset.
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The conspiracy is spreading, the pond dropped 1/2 inch this month,
I am worried soon the fish will get fat and lazy from lack of swimming room.
In another month it might drop a whole inch.;)

Hope California gets some rain and snow this winter, but glad I am not
there.
 
Axxman300 said:
Water kills more people than any other substance known to man, so for the time being we're all a lot safer. So at least we've got that going for us.
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I've heard stories of ponds with water in them. We have many dry ponds all around us. A smattering of cracked mud at the bottom on occasion hints at their intended purpose.
 
Can I email you some of our rains, it seems to be falling from the sky way to much now, can not get any work done, I think it is a government conspiracy trying to wash us away with too much water, or make us
Buy umbrellas and rain coats and do roof repairs, the Government is out to get us All.:D
 
Travis said:
Ah, more of the "all disasters are fake" mindset.
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Pressing into political duty the minds of tens of millions by training the to conserve water at home when that is just a small fraction of the water consumed...priceless!
 
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