California Drought

[lilranch2001]

Lol...

 

[RobertN]

That is interesting. The bridge was not behind the dam, it was right smack dab in the middle of the dam site. They used it thru a large portion of the dam construction, until it was in the way. Then they blew it up and finished the dam.

Thanks for the links

Building of the Oroville Dam, The - Larry R. Matthews - Google Books

Bruce[/QUOTE]

 

[California]

Government doesn't produce anything

Police? Dams? Bridges? Highways? The aqueducts sending all the water to SoCal? Life here would be pretty primitive if all the employees and public works disappeared.

Efficiency could be improved, yes, but the functions of government are worth what it costs us.

 

[downsizingnow48]

The Association of California Water Agencies has over 400 member water agencies that together manage 90% of the water that goes to farms, communities, businesses. The ACWA policy papers give a sense of the huge problems and trade offs that the water districts deal with day by day.

ACWA Policy Principles | Association of California Water Agencies

 

[houstonscott]

Police? Dams? Bridges? Highways? The aqueducts sending all the water to SoCal? Life here would be pretty primitive if all the employees and public works disappeared. Efficiency could be improved, yes, but the functions of government are worth what it costs us.

They don't create wealth, the take from it....

 

[California]

They don't create wealth, the take from it....

Nonsense. Without infrastructure California would be mostly desert (no rainfall generally Easter to Thanksgiving) with occasional biblical-grade floods. There's a reason that old houses in the Central Valley have the occupied space on the second floor, with the ground floor used as people elsewhere use their basement ....

 

[kloudbuster]

Right makes sense. Change the environment to fit more people.

 

[dickfoster]

According to that article a quarter of immigrants already here are undocumented. But the chart above shows Hispanic immigration - both legal and undocumented - has fallen from the large numbers of several years ago. So a wall against Hispanics isn't going to have much effect on demands for water. What we need to solve the water shortage is more people moving from California to other states where the water is. I'm all for that, it's too crowded here.

Well rest assured that Sacramento is doing all it can to run business off along with the taxbase. Of course that will leave you holding the bag to pay for the social programs to service a lot of those illegals. I do hope you're factoring all of that in because I don't think Mexico has any plans now or in the near future to put anything into California's kitty.

 

[dickfoster]

Police? Dams? Bridges? Highways? The aqueducts sending all the water to SoCal? Life here would be pretty primitive if all the employees and public works disappeared.

Efficiency could be improved, yes, but the functions of government are worth what it costs us.

You have to look at the state as a business and the goverment as overhead. Remember you can't have too many chiefs and not enough indians or you're likely to go bust real fast.

 

[turnkey4099]

Nonsense. Without infrastructure California would be mostly desert (no rainfall generally Easter to Thanksgiving) with occasional biblical-grade floods. There's a reason that old houses in the Central Valley have the occupied space on the second floor, with the ground floor used as people elsewhere use their basement ....

The discussion was aobut income producing activities that bring money into the state. Ifrastructure doesn't do that although without it there wouldn't be the income. Samew as building a factoery to produce cars. building the factory does not produce income. Use of it does.