Crises on Tap: California's water reckoning . . . Curb growth?
Curb Growth?
If homeowners and farmers have to make sacrifices, what about developers?
Curbing "mindless development" has to be considered, said Tim Barnett, a marine research physicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and co-author of the Lake Mead study.
"Have you been to Palm Springs or Palm Desert? . . . We have to learn what sustainability means."
"What the greens want to do is make it impossible for the state to grow," Kotkin said. "If California wants to become a place that can't accommodate people, people will continue to leave."
But California can't simply grow forever, Barnett said.
"If you want to continue to grow, where are you going to get the water?" he asked. "There has to be limits. It's a no-brainer."
http://www.pe.com/reports/2009/water/stories/PE_News_Local_S...
So... the article mentioned
So... the article mentioned that some farmers, such as the tomato farmer, are considering switching to tree farming for more permanent plants that do not die off after each season. Well, https://www.tomatogiant.com is out of stock (as of the posting of this message)... I wonder if the tomato farmer is switching to tomato trees...?
Actually, if all the people who have lawns planted 1-3 tomato trees on the properties there would be no shortage, or major price increases, on tomatoes and the people will still be able to water their lawns.
I find it curious, though, and more seriously, that water desalination was not mentioned. AFAIK, General Electric has designed some really gigantic water desalination plants. Last I heard there was one being built in the US (I believe in the Tampa area), but get this: I remember something about China being in the process of building 10 or so. Maybe building a desalination plant (or several) would enable California to refill the reservoirs?
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I think you all should watch these videos on Agenda 21!
http://wacla.org/2009/09/09/agenda-21/
The song in the last video says it all-----“It’s the end of the world, as we know it”
Sad example of the cowardice
Sad example of the cowardice of Americans who refuse to stand up to these criminals but would rather starve and watch thier way of live be destroyed... :-(
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Get Prepared!
Easy one
Privatize the water supply and let the market set the prices. The water supply is divided up into draw rights the total of which is slightly less than the replenishment rate. The draw rights are then auctioned off to individuals (not government or corporations). Then the owners of the draw rights compete for customers. The more demand outstrips supply, the higher the price gets. The market will eventually respond with alternative sources - reclaimation, desalination, rainwater harvesting, etc.
Blame population Growth
95% of ALL of California's problems are due to the huge increase in population growth. If Cali's population was the same as in the 60s, no one would have to make sacrifices .
I can not blame population growth
I blame the mismanagement of growth and development of industries that attempted to become "too big to fail". I blame Monsanto, Kelloggs, Bechtel, Carlyle, haliburton, Army Corps of Engineers, Deptment of Water and Power, PG&E and district changing, regulating and reregulation, and building malls to attract people away from their communities, and Starbucks and University system that found it more profitable to issue degrees in law and order more than medicine and science... I blame those who seek to control the world and find peaple in the way of their GREEN dreams, which make life for all of us brown.
WE ARE GOING TO WIN!
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I have questions RawFoodLiberty
I'm happy they admitted conservation was the solution. I have aklways considered myself a conservationist, NOT an environmentalist. The story introduced, but cut off the Prof from Chapman Univ.
"Joel Kotkin, a futurist and fellow at Chapman University in Orange, worries about this trend.
"What the greens want to do is make it impossible for the state to grow," Kotkin said. "If California wants to become a place that can't accommodate people, people will continue to leave."
Who are "the greens"? The greens became the corporations, the "change" we can believe in.. suddenly WalMart is GREEN and sustainable, and the article, never mentions the industries of CA that use water, the municiple and private pools, spas, and how about these massive forest fires.. allot of water goes into those, but the article doesn't mention that. He mentions boaters. He doesn't mention the huge hotels, institutions, golf courses, water rides in parks, the hundreds of thousands of fast food chains, car washes... This article BLAMES PEOPLE.. the consumer. He never mentions Nader, because Nader never blamed the consumer, he blamed the corporations and government protecting those corporations over people.
Cities can certainly fine the homeowner and renter to their inability to live in CA, and they will because of UN Agenda 21, which the article never mentions, but you and I know.. it's the roadmap.
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Thank you so much
Granger for your excellent analysis.
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Thank you QS
for the compliment.
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