FORECASTERS PREDICT DWINDLING CHANCES OF EL NINO

[nate]

I don't know how you can look at all the completely dried out reservoirs, lakes and rivers and not think:

 

a) this is really bad and CA obviously cannot support its population

we should totally dry out the rest of the country like this!

 

By the way, most experts are saying that it will take more than 100 years to get CA's reservoirs, lakes and rivers back to the pre-drought capacity.

[Angel Oracle]

The proof, as Nate is saying, is in the record low levels of reservoirs throughout CA. 

[RallyMo]

This is a GREAT book. You should all read it:

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[Sully151]

California produces almost half the fruits, vegetables and nuts in the country. If the farms shut down because of a lack of water while the Midwest is drowning in runoff from another Polar Vortex, we are all going to have issues.

If there was a way to harness that water and get it to CA, we would all be better off.

I am tired of all the Anti-California bull**** that goes on all over the US. If you don't like the state, that's fine, move or don't visit, but keep your mouth shut. Especially while you are chewing all the fruits and vegatables you get from the state

[nate]

Rofl!!!  That is exactly what I am talking about.  That is insane greed.

 

By the way the mid west is not drowning in anything.  The great lakes are all at historically low levels.  Polar vortex is temperature, it has nothing to do with precipitation.

 

Maybe you should stop watering your lawn so the ag industry can have the water instead.

[mp170.6]

By the way I was just as critical of CA before.

 

The idea that anyone thinks it is ok that after CA sucked all the water in the region dry, they can now suck all the water from the midwest dry, is insane.  This is the kind of behavior that will absolutely destroy this country.

 

CA has way too many people living there than the water tables can handle, if that isn't obvious right now then I don't know what.

 

It isn't 75% agriculture either, there is actually less ag in CA now than there was 25 years ago.  The population however is far bigger.

 

Nate, why do you keep spewing false information when simple Google searches make you look silly?  You do this a lot. 

 

Below, a UCLA graphic shows 77% of our water usage is agriculture.   http://www.environment.ucla.edu/reportcard/article4870.html

 

 

[Sully151]

Rofl!!!  That is exactly what I am talking about.  That is insane greed.

 

By the way the mid west is not drowning in anything.  The great lakes are all at historically low levels.  Polar vortex is temperature, it has nothing to do with precipitation.

 

Maybe you should stop watering your lawn so the ag industry can have the water instead.

 

Polar Vortex is about temperature, but it also brings precipitation.

 

As of March 2014, The majority of the Mid-West and Eastern Seaboard received more than 200% of their average annual snowfall.

 

Minnesota and Western Wisconsin had their second wettest April on record.

 

There is a good chance that the Polar Vortex will return bringing more record snowfall with the cold. Last time I checked, snow was just really could water.

 

I cold go on, but I need to go water my fruit trees.

Edited September 25, 2014 by Sully151

[1nutkruk]

California needs more of these to pop up:  http://carlsbaddesal.com/

 

Yes, the plants are expensive to build and run but what other alternatives do you have? 

Edited September 25, 2014 by 1nutkruk

[Catwhoshatinthehat]

I'm going to keep overwatering my lawn and f*ck everyone else.

 

I don't see what you f*cking everyone else has to do with over watering your lawn but do your thing.  

[Jay]

Nate, why do you keep spewing false information when simple Google searches make you look silly?  You do this a lot. 

 

Below, a UCLA graphic shows 77% of our water usage is agriculture.   http://www.environment.ucla.edu/reportcard/article4870.html

 

 

 

If we allow everybody's grass to die the reservoirs will return to their pre-drought levels in 99 years rather than 100.

[nate]

Right, lets not conserve because we are only a small part of the problem.

[Adam]

Brawndo!

[Tank]

They create an awful smell.  People bitch and moan about having one nearby.

 

build it just north of ventura/oxnard. no one will even notice.

[Tank]

I'm going to keep overwatering my lawn and f*ck everyone else.

 

i certainly hope this is a metaphor.

[mp170.6]

Right, lets not conserve because we are only a small part of the problem.

 

Virtually every city's municipal code demands that we keep our yards green, so there's not much we can do. 

 

Besides, if you read the pie chart that I posted, you'd see that residential landscaping has very little to do with it. 

[nate]

Right, cities are to blame too for not changing those regulations.

 

If 10-15% of water use was reduced starting two years ago things wouldn't be near this bad.

[mp170.6]

Right, cities are to blame too for not changing those regulations.

 

If 10-15% of water use was reduced starting two years ago things wouldn't be near this bad.

 

10-15% of who's water use?  You really need to study that pie chart. 

[nate]

Dude I saw your pie chart.  Ag has made huge cutbacks to their water use.

[Adam]

Leonardo DiCaprio addressed the UN. Shit's gonna get done

[mp170.6]

Dude I saw your pie chart.  Ag has made huge cutbacks to their water use.

 

You didn't answer the question.  What is the 10-15% you are referring to?

[wopphil]

Except they refused to conserve and now they want to drain the rest of the country dry

If Idaho is drowning and I can use some of their water so my lawn doesn't die, don't we both win?

[nate]

Overall water use.

 

Anyway I am going to remember this thread the next time the conservatives are bitching about government spending on programs that make up .1% of the budget but not cutting defense spending which makes up 75%.

[wopphil]

We conserve more than the rest of the country does. Why should we do with less. Do we ask them to eat less because they can't grow as much?

Great analogy!

[nate]

If Idaho is drowning and I can use some of their water so my lawn doesn't die, don't we both win?

 

Except it never works that way.  CA has already emptied reservoirs far away from the state by re-routing the water.

 

Also, since Ag is more important shouldn't it go to them instead?

[Jay]

Right, cities are to blame too for not changing those regulations.

 

If 10-15% of water use was reduced starting two years ago things wouldn't be near this bad.

 

still making shit up