Despite California’s long drought, trillions of gallons of rainwater wastefully flowing into sea

[longknife]

Golly, gee! This is considered news? It happens every time it rains because of poor planning, lousy management, and politicians who don’t have the faintest idea of what they’re doing.

LOS ANGELES -- California’s rainy season could be the wettest in 40 years, but experts say the state is missing a major opportunity by failing to collect the trillions of gallons of storm runoff that currently flows wastefully into the ocean.

In February alone, an estimated 18 trillion gallons of water fell on the state. In urban areas and coastal cities, 80 percent ends up diverted into the ocean, as Los Angeles and other cities built long concrete channels for flood control. The Los Angeles River, for example, is a 51-mile-long canal as wide as a football field. Almost none of the water seeps into the underground aquifer.

And then, the undergrowth with spring up in huge amounts, only to dry out as the year passes. So, come Fall we will see wildfires. Lots of them.


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[elektra]

Despite being a desert that does have rainy seasons, water flows to the sea? And yet, everybody is fine? Nobody is thirsty. The places with farming are still fine. California does have an energy problem. If California saved all that water they would not have the energy to pump it. You see, California has been shutting down all it's sources of power and now they rely on expensive imported power. Go Green, Go Renewables, watch California fail.

 

[skookerasbil]

California is the new model for how NOT to do it. On everything. Unless your goal is to become a shithole state!

 

[Crick]

Golly, gee! This is considered news? It happens every time it rains because of poor planning, lousy management, and politicians who don’t have the faintest idea of what they’re doing.

LOS ANGELES -- California’s rainy season could be the wettest in 40 years, but experts say the state is missing a major opportunity by failing to collect the trillions of gallons of storm runoff that currently flows wastefully into the ocean.

In February alone, an estimated 18 trillion gallons of water fell on the state. In urban areas and coastal cities, 80 percent ends up diverted into the ocean, as Los Angeles and other cities built long concrete channels for flood control. The Los Angeles River, for example, is a 51-mile-long canal as wide as a football field. Almost none of the water seeps into the underground aquifer.

And then, the undergrowth with spring up in huge amounts, only to dry out as the year passes. So, come Fall we will see wildfires. Lots of them.


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I agree that improvements could be made. But that would require storage space which takes land which is - guess what - fooking expensive in California these days. Would you prefer they just blockade the drainage canals and flood half the state when it rains like this?

 

[danielpalos]

Golly, gee! This is considered news? It happens every time it rains because of poor planning, lousy management, and politicians who don’t have the faintest idea of what they’re doing.

LOS ANGELES -- California’s rainy season could be the wettest in 40 years, but experts say the state is missing a major opportunity by failing to collect the trillions of gallons of storm runoff that currently flows wastefully into the ocean.

In February alone, an estimated 18 trillion gallons of water fell on the state. In urban areas and coastal cities, 80 percent ends up diverted into the ocean, as Los Angeles and other cities built long concrete channels for flood control. The Los Angeles River, for example, is a 51-mile-long canal as wide as a football field. Almost none of the water seeps into the underground aquifer.

And then, the undergrowth with spring up in huge amounts, only to dry out as the year passes. So, come Fall we will see wildfires. Lots of them.


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what happened to the increase in wetlands that is supposed to watershed more water?

 

[Crick]

Republican bought it up and turned it into real estate developments... of course.

 

[SSDD]

Republican bought it up and turned it into real estate developments... of course.

Evidence or just more fake facts pulled out of your ass...

 

[Crick]

That was pulled out of my ass, but I bet you a dollar to a donut you'd find a great deal of that land was turned into real estate developments and that a majority of the developers were republicans.

 

[skookerasbil]

LOL.....let me guess........now that the drought is over, the climate k00ks have now pivoted to floods?

 

[Crick]

Do you not keep up with the news or are you just extraordinarily stupid?

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