Thursday, April 14, 2016

Re: [californiadisasters] Sierra snowpack shows improvement, but not enough to declare California's drought over



Agriculture uses 500% more of the water than urban areas and often growing water-intensive crops that are probably no longer appropriate to grow in California and they often benefit from antiquated water agreements drawn up in the 19th century when California and the West were very different than they are now. Another problem is that half of the water available in California is not even available to human use but is set aside for conservation. We need to look at that and see if we need to change that percentage. In other words, AG needs to change, urban growth needs to slow and get more efficient which it has but more is needed and water for conservation may need to be looked at for possible reallocation of some of it.

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On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Pamela Alley rnrq@att.net [californiadisasters] <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

Nope. You bring 'em up here, you STAY to deal with 'em!

Like the cut-off idea, though, at least for the cities. Ag can have what they need within reasonable limits.... :)

You'd think they'd have learned from Owens Valley but noooo....

PA

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>To: californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2016 10:26 AM
>Subject: Re: [californiadisasters] Sierra snowpack shows improvement, but not enough to declare California's drought over
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>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
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>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).
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>Rick




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