Calif. Drought

[houstonscott]

California doesn't have a water shortage, they have all the water they have planned and built for. The current water system was designed and built in the 1020's and 1930's. Last major dam was built in 1960's. Nothing has been done to add to the water supply in almost 70 years, what's the crises or surprise. The current system was designed for a State with 10 million people, not 35 million. Sit on your *** for 70 years arguing about a fish, and now you have no fish, no agriculture, and no water. Better get your wallets out start building some more dams, and desalination plants and quit whining. Good job! Hard to feel sorry. HS

 

[bajabum]

Ok, everybody who wasn't born in California, go home!
There.
Problem solved.

BTW, Texas needs people, go there, they have plenty of water..... oops, wait a minute, they've sucked their aquifer dry...

Hard to feel sorry about your drought...

 

[ultrarunner]

Like much of the West... dams are being removed and approved dams never got built.

There is one dam project near San Jose CA that is on schedule...

Many I know are disenfranchised when things like the Army Core basically empty a dam to make room for water that might come... it's more complicated than that for sure... but, it just happened this week.

Massive Water Release From Lake Mendocino Under Scrutiny Amid Drought « CBS San Francisco

And then there is Politics...

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_12611066

 

[Industrial Toys]

Hey, hey hey! If you send the wet backs home, who is going to pick my vegies? As it is, they predict a 25% rise in produce here in Canada. And the price for Groceries is already BRUTAL!

Maybe they can consript those Valley Girls, who won't have a swimming pool to lay beside, to pick the crops! Get a nice tan too! Win win!

 

[dave1949]

Like much of the West... dams are being removed and approved dams never got built.

There is one dam project near San Jose CA that is on schedule...

Many I know are disenfranchised when things like the Army Core basically empty a dam to make room for water that might come... it's more complicated than that for sure... but, it just happened this week.

Massive Water Release From Lake Mendocino Under Scrutiny Amid Drought « CBS San Francisco

And then there is Politics...

East Bay dam expansion plan raises hackles in Sierra - San Jose Mercury News

I can see the water issue involves many conflicting points of view. I don't envy areas of the country that will continue slugging-out the water supply issues for decades to come.

We have dam issues too. Not for water supply, but for rebuilding the fisheries. The tourism revenue provided by inland fishing and such may out-weigh the value of hydro-power in Maine, although some hydro power generation is being preserved. If the people are correct who say the inland fisheries (as feed stocks) are the key to rebuilding the Gulf of Maine ocean fisheries, then that is also a huge economic consideration.


This project has been on-going: Penobscot River Restoration Project | Home


www.penobscotriver.org/assets/river_restoration.pdf‎
(Check-out the map on pdf page two showing the 649 dams in Maine 4' tall or higher.)

"Maine’s rivers and streams once flowed freely to the sea, carrying nutrients and allowing
unimpeded fish passage deep inland. Today, more than 1000 dams exist on Maine waterways.
The 2002 map depicts 649 dams listed in the National Inventory of Dams database, which includes
dams with four feet or greater height. Hundreds of smaller dams are not shown on this map."

 

[flusher]

California doesn't have a water shortage, they have all the water they have planned and built for. The current water system was designed and built in the 1020's and 1930's. Last major dam was built in 1960's. Nothing has been done to add to the water supply in almost 70 years, what's the crises or surprise. The current system was designed for a State with 10 million people, not 35 million. Sit on your *** for 70 years arguing about a fish, and now you have no fish, no agriculture, and no water. Better get your wallets out start building some more dams, and desalination plants and quit whining. Good job! Hard to feel sorry. HS

Diamond Valley Lake (aka Eastside Reservoir) near Hemet CA was started by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern CA
in 1995 and completed in 2003. Cost: $1.9B.
Storage capacity: 800,000 acre feet. Nearly doubled the surface storage capacity in Southern CA.
Surely this body of water counts as a “major new” reservoir.

 

[houstonscott]

Diamond Valley Lake (aka Eastside Reservoir) near Hemet CA was started by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern CA in 1995 and completed in 2003. Cost: $1.9B. Storage capacity: 800,000 acre feet. Nearly doubled the surface storage capacity in Southern CA. Surely this body of water counts as a “major new” reservoir.

I was referring to Oroville. HS

 

[ultrarunner]

For what it's worth and I have no idea how the numbers stack up nationwide...

The per capita use:

76 gallons a day for South San Francisco

98 gallons a day for San Francisco

all the way to 736 gallons a day for Palm Springs.

 

[bajabum]

Hey, hey hey! If you send the wet backs home, who is going to pick my vegies? As it is, they predict a 25% rise in produce here in Canada. And the price for Groceries is already BRUTAL!

Hmm, maybe if all the snowbird canucks picked veggies and then went home...Hmmm
Two problems solved!

 

[jerrybob]

For what it's worth and I have no idea how the numbers stack up nationwide...

The per capita use:

76 gallons a day for South San Francisco

98 gallons a day for San Francisco

all the way to 736 gallons a day for Palm Springs.

Yea but.....who'd want to play a golf course without waterfalls and lakes on a 105 degree day......Palm Springs needs that water and you know it!!!!