Just How Bad Is California's Drought?

[RockofStrength]

The real question is who will be forced out first when water becomes unreasonably expensive? Big business? The farmers? Average yokels?

 

[actaeon277]

The real question is who will be forced out first when water becomes unreasonably expensive? Big business? The farmers? Average yokels?

None.
They'll find some way to saddle the cost on the rest of us.
It's the only FAIR thing to do.

 

[KLB]

None.
They'll find some way to saddle the cost on the rest of us.
It's the only FAIR thing to do.

Sad, but probably true.

 

[mrjarrell]

The real question is who will be forced out first when water becomes unreasonably expensive? Big business? The farmers? Average yokels?

The yokels will be the ones hit hardest. The farmers have first dibs on the water in Cali. And it flows downhill from them.

 

[ModernGunner]

Get rid of the lefty liberal-loon environmentalist activist libtards and build the damn desalinization plant(s) they've been talking about for 20+ years now.

CalifUrnia sits on an ocean for chissakes, yet repeatedly suffers through droughts because of those very libtards. It's beyond ridiculous.

Far as I'm concerned, as long as California folks continue to knuckle under to the libtards and refrain from building the desalinization plant(s), they can go thirsty.

 

[88E30M50]

The same basic issue keeps rearing it's head in California. The fact that individual rights take a back seat to collective rights is why I have little desire to live there. It's a shame since it's one of the most beautiful states in the Union. But, socialism runs strong out there and what is yours is only yours if the state does not need it for the collective good. You cannot even collect the rain that falls on your roof without the state's permission. It's their rain, not yours. Want to carry a gun for self protection? Good luck, since the state cannot have individuals with any level of self determination that a handgun gives possible. Plus, the collective has been convinced guns are bad and your individual right to protection is not as important as their collective right to feel good.

But, the upside is that our Union is structured to allow Californians to live as they see fit and for Hoosiers to live as we see fit. That is, until they run out of water or money and feel the need to take from others. Or, should we try to pass a law that does not fit their agenda, they will launch a nationwide campaign to make us look like a bunch of backwood hicks.

 

[indiucky]

How Jerry Brown is reaping what he sowed in the 1970s: VDH: How Jerry Brown Engineered California?s Drought | Ed Driscoll

Yeah but to be fair he was "in to" Linda Rondstadt at that time....And that could really mess up your thinking......

 

[ArmedProgrammer]

The yokels will be the ones hit hardest. The farmers have first dibs on the water in Cali. And it flows downhill from them.

Iguana****... you are correct about the yokels... BUT - LADWP has first dibs on the water, THEN then environmentalists that want to save [insert whatever species here], THEN the farmers.

If you are not familiar with the pumps near Tracy, CA, and the Canals sending water to LA, it would pay to read up on it. Those pumps and canals are large enough to reverse the entire flow of the San Joaquin river delta area. As a college student, I worked for CA-Dept of Water Resources as an intern - doing water quality studies in the Delta.

I can tell you first hand who funds what - and that LADWP is at the front of the water line...

 

[ArcadiaGP]

California officials approve deal to cut farmers' water use due to record-setting drought

 

[Dosproduction]

All im scared of is those dang democrats libtards coming out this way. Let them stay there and dehydrate.

 

[CathyInBlue]

And then blow away.

 

[RobbyMaQ]

I can't be bothered with this... I am still waiting for Brazil. I'm a guy, and can't concentrate on more than one thing at a time

 

[pudly]

Vandals destroy dam, release 49 million gallons of water into Bay | KRON4.com

 

[cerebus85]

I've been in Cali for over a month now and not one person seemed overly concerned. They acted like it was comical...

 

[ModernGunner]

California doesn't have a 'water problem'.

It has a libtard problem.

 

[miguel]

Vandals destroy dam, release 49 million gallons of water into Bay | KRON4.com

"Fremont police say vandals attacked an inflatable dam on Alameda Creek that resulted in the loss of nearly 50 million gallons of water."

Is it really lost if they know where it went?

 

[ModernGunner]

"Fremont police say vandals attacked an inflatable dam on Alameda Creek that resulted in the loss of nearly 50 million gallons of water."

Is it really lost if they know where it went?

It's lost 'in their hearts', Miguel. You know how sensitive libtards are!

 

[miguel]

Burn Hollywood, burn!

[video=youtube;nhubp0NtCr4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhubp0NtCr4[/video]

 

[GIJEW]

I'm in Moreno Valley on business right now. It has rained 4 times in 3 weeks, one week it rained so much it tore the awning in my hotel, and caused a few landslides....

You'd think someone would think of something better to do with those LA concrete culverts than flush all that rain water into the sea.

 

[GIJEW]

Simple answer. Alaska has plenty of water, food and room. If you cannot afford to live in CA you have to move. Not one more cent should be invested into that state. We have to fix and pay for our problems, so should they.

They already are and they're bringing their politics with them (see OR). We can anticipate their policies and problems moving east.