I wrote:
"CA;s water problem may be a direct result of its desertification of its alpine biomes by siphoning the Owens Valley, which affects the water table, ultimately evaporation which feeds the high Sierra storms necessary for building snowpack. The vicious cycle includes the shrinking glaciers in the high mountains which feed the streams in Summer that feed the reservoirs that feed the Central Valley's ever climbing temps as the cycle escalates.
A systematic restoration of the Owen's water table and Mono Lake would be one of the magic bullets to reverse the cycle and restore CA's potential. Many downstream tracks of land..or rather, down-canal, would be able to be utilized again. Much of it now sits fallow, going back to semi-desert. This is the area around Bakersfield which is now mainly used for cattle grazing. But cows need water too. Some tracts have been reclaimed in recent years to crops but there is much still sitting dry around the oil field area.
Desalination could feed a line into the Owen's Valley and restore it back to the Owen's Lake it used to be before LA scammed the region by land buyouts. It also could feed many local municipal reservoirs in So Cal.
Could call it "operation reverse the LA Aquaduct."
California is the 7th biggest economy in the world. A very diverse economy, ranging from silicon valley to truck farms. It also has a climate that is extremely vulneble to weather swings. Records of long droughts and huge floods.
Yet we see our 'Conservatives' taking joy in the fact that they are currently in a drought situation. What a sad reflection that is on the mental state of such people.
Sillhoutte, I hope that your company has a good economical solution. But, even it it does, it will be fought tooth and nail by the 'Conservtives' simply because it has solar in it's name.
Oh, it's not my company...lol... I just googled it. I know of the technology though a little. Bit of a hobby for me. And I have seen just about every corner of California, multiple times and am intimately aware of many of its "issues".
The draining of the natural water tables has had an effect on the microclimate of the High Sierra, a place where CA relies most heavily for its Central Valley irrigation during the long hot Summers there. Without that water, California is hosed, pardon the pun. The shrinking/disappearing highcountry glaciers that were lasting all through Summer slowly melting is the big problem. So it is a vicious cycle. LA's urban/residential use (not even for agriculture!) is sucking the more and more arid region East of the Sierras drier and drier via the Aquaduct. That area in turn is sucking more and more (or refusing to evaporate more and more water) from/to High Sierra's microclimate weather system & snowpack.
It's important to understand that this isn't just some temporary glitch in our nation's biggest money maker. This is a downward spiral. This glacial shrinking has been virtually uninterrupted since the 1950s...just about the time the LA Aquaduct's thirsty straw pushed that microclimate over a tipping point. "Save Mono Lake"... Everyone who has been to California has at one time or another seen that bumper sticker. Owen's Lake is long gone now. It's just an immense dry valley now where much water once stood. Vital water to snowpack 9-14,000 feet above.
It isn't an exaggeration to say that this issue affects the US's only hold left on world power: Food. A tremendous amount of our nation's food to trade is produced in California. Food for oil, food for favors, food for ...etc. etc. So this isn't just a California emergency and downward spiral. It's a national emergency and downward spiral.
