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You know, wouldn't it be great if we could actually change the climate to make most of CA no longer a desert? Can we do that? After all, they tell us we have the power to change GLOBAL climate. How about a demonstration? Give CA more rain.Over the last 1200 years there have been at least two droughts that lasted 300 years.
You know, wouldn't it be great if we could actually change the climate to make most of CA no longer a desert? Can we do that? After all, they tell us we have the power to change GLOBAL climate. How about a demonstration? Give CA more rain.
Southern Cascades = Water for Ca.Over the last 1200 years there have been at least two droughts that lasted 300 years.
Southern Cascades = Water for Ca.
People must have not had any pretzels at all.Over the last 1200 years there have been at least two droughts that lasted 300 years.
East or West of the Sierras? I live next to Lassen Peak. We have plenty of water but, I hear the snow pack is down. That will negatively impact the Central Valley and Southern CA. They need to build desalinization plants along the coast and build aqueduct pipes to the Central Valley. That would guarantee abundant water in times of drought. Also, the canals from Far Northern CA to the Central Valley need maintenance. Water from the Ocean (desalinization) could be used to irrigate the Central Valley and the canals could be drained, fixed and re-filled. The combination of water sources would be great for the Central Valley and Southern CA, LA, San Diego, etc.I live in the Sierra's. Over the last 20 years the trend, moisture wise, has been down. That affects ALL of california. Hetch Hetchy is incredibly low, as are all the lakes in the mountains.
About once every five years, on average, we get a good wet winter. But other than that the State is drying up.
The same is true in Nevada. Washoe lake is low, of course it's only 12 feet deep at its deepest, and it actually dries out from time to time. That happened three or four years ago, but it is on the downhill slide again.
East or West of the Sierras? I live next to Lassen Peak. We have plenty of water but, I hear the snow pack is down. That will impact the Central Valley and Southern CA
Ya, you're East of the Sierras in Nevada and North? Beautiful country!! You should have not trouble with droughts.I live above Incline Village.
Ya, you're East of the Sierras in Nevada? Beautiful country!! You should have not trouble with droughts.
Wow!! Didn't know that. Yeah the Western Sierra is the drought area in CA. It has been supplemented by a Federal project that includes Whiskeytown and Shasta Dams. Canals carry water to 'lower CA' (the central valley). When snowpacks are low, less water. Your area seems to have been left out.We do though. The western Sierra hoovers up 80% of the moisture. We are in a rain shadow. Especially around Tahoe. The last few years we have only had one or two real good blizzards.
Most of the snow on the ski slopes is man made.
Wow!! Didn't know that. Yeah the Western Sierra is the drought area in CA. It has been supplemented by a Federal project that includes Whiskeytown and Shasta Dams. Canals carry water to 'lower CA' (the central valley). When snowpacks are low, less water. Your area seems to have been left out.
That's why, IMO, they need to build desalinization plants. Yes the cost will rise however, the alternative is no water, no life. The Sierras can no longer support the rest of CA. In fact, there is a movement (State Of Jefferson) that wants to split the State North to South and make Southern CA PAY through the nose for water.There are two canals that feed water from northern cali to southern cali. It took multiple lawsuits to save Mono lake.
Owens lake is long dead, probably never to return. They are now trying to steal water from north eastern Nevada to send to Vegas. We have been able to thwart that so far, but water is going to be a huge issue in the coming years.
Yeah, seen that. It is disputed.
Dirty little secret. Central CA is a desert. It is only verdant because of water from Far Northern CA. Droughts are typical for much of CA and always have been. History shows a 100 year drought at one time. The Sierra Mtns run down CA and on the Eastern side, there is more water. The Western side is more desert like with soils that, if watered, are very fertile so, there is a lot a agriculture there. Basically the natural climate prefers most of CA to be a desert.
Two new Dams and the Giant Holding lake south of Clearlake and one test Desal Plant for Shits & Giggles to Placate the Far LeftToo much loss on the trip down. Either cali bites the bullet and starts building desal plants, or they die.
That's their option.
That is a dumb idea.This is why our obsession with climate change is so wrong... of course its getting hotter and dryer in the west... forget the damn reason... bring more water to where the nation needs it... PIPELINES from Texas and the mid west are doable... we have that kind of ability...
Why aren't we doing what we all know is the best response to global warming droughts?... getting water where you need it in our nation should be a priority....
Our leaders are failing us....
I can agree with desalinization, but moving water resources out of ecosystems in other parts of the nation? That is a dumb idea though. Destroy one ecosystem, to save a different one, or Eco-engineer the other one . . . ??I completely agree. I've been saying for years we need to start projects like desalination plants on the coasts.... in the meantime other countries like Australia Saudi Arabia and Israel are leading the way.
China has reforested a whole section of the Gobi desert for God's sake while we've been turning the Middle East into blood-tinted glass.
Our leaders today want certain things to take place and rather than explain it to us and convince us that they know best they would rather scare and punish us inti alignment....I completely agree. I've been saying for years we need to start projects like desalination plants on the coasts.... in the meantime other countries like Australia Saudi Arabia and Israel are leading the way.
China has reforested a whole section of the Gobi desert for God's sake while we've been turning the Middle East into blood-tinted glass.
We pipe oil all over the nation... if we can do that we can pump water out west.... the dumb thing is thinking we have the power to change the climate....That is a dumb idea.
The business and people should just move. If weather patterns are changing, it would be far less costly to accommodate the Earth, than the reverse.
As quickly as we pump the water out there? It will evaporate in the heat or be used up by growing population. It is a waste of energy and the resources. Fresh water, in an increasingly crowded world, with increasingly higher living standards for everyone, should be conserved, not pumped into climates that are not suitable.
You write like, oh, just shift water resources, like it would not affect that places or environments or ecosystems where those resources currently are. . . but it would.
Various regional governments, are not just going to agree to pump water, which those ecosystems depend on, to environments which will just use it up that resource, and STILL be in the position that they are in. . . .
