My short version: Completely cut SoCal off from NoCal water, invalidate ALL water contract with the south. That means the SoCal crowd will have to move out of SoCal since they have no water. They would want to move here, because there is ample water (and it's MUCH nicer). That raises the value of my house, meaning I can sell at a high profit, then I get the heck out of here for once and all. ;-D
Of course they could build desalinization plants, as was done in Carlsbad, but that is potentially another environmental disaster too. It's simply more people there than the environment can support, an oft ignored lesson. But they'd tax the NoCal folks (again) to resolve a SoCal issue (again).
Rick
On 4/14/2016 10:15 AM, Pamela Alley rnrq@att.net [californiadisasters] wrote:
In other words, YES we are still very, very dry and short of groundwater in a most drastic way. It's going to take (probably) five really, really, REALLY good years to truly reestablish the ice bank (snowpack) and replenish even a fraction of the groundwater we've been pumping so mercilessly.
SoCal really needs to get its shit together when it comes to water conservation, and fast. NorCal is not going to continue to stand for increasing drainage of water from rivers, deltas, and reservoirs while SoCal continues to expand population heedless of the water demands. Ag is changing how it does things, but it's going to take time and a lot more fallowed fields--which means higher prices. :(
(And yes, BTW, the same goes for NorCal--it's better up here this year, but it's not by any means smarter when it comes to building. Or conserving.)
So keep conserving water, make it a habit in everything you do, and encourage others to do the same. It can't hurt, and if enough of us do it, it just might help.
PA
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