NASA says california has less than a year of water left

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17 Mar 2015, 8:48 pm

On the contrary, its all over for Cali-Funny.
Aunt Blabby, better start packing so you can move house ! !!

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17 Mar 2015, 9:24 pm

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On the contrary, its all over for Cali-Funny. Aunt Blabby, better start packing so you can move house ! ! !..

but I live in Washington state. granted, we have our own water problems [projected drought in 3 areas this summer] but it is still nothing like California's troubles.

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17 Mar 2015, 10:27 pm

Nothing to do with government, but California residents have no one to blame but themselves. so much water is wasted in swimming pools and lawn maintenance(vanity stroking) they don't consider water for basic needs. Let them move someplace where there is enough water and let people who are going to be more considerate of nature take their places in California. I would happily live there and not waste resources

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18 Mar 2015, 3:10 am

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Industry, agriculture and the population's requirements not only compete for scarce water resources but also pollute existing supplies. Pipeline leaks, pollution from fracking, runoff from farms containing pesticides and fertilizers -- all of these put our precious aquifers, reservoirs, lakes and rivers at risk.

Although it is unclear whether there is a connection to the Gardena neighborhood's problem, California regulators recently authorized the dumping of oilfield waste into public drinking water reservoirs.

The Associated Press has published an analysis in which it was revealed that permits allowing the injection of petroleum "production fluids and waste" into federally protected aquifers. The practice has been going on for decades, but in recent years the approval process has been streamlined and many more such injections are now taking place.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/049000_water ... rnia.html##ixzz3UioaEKHD

Not sure how accurate this link is but it was my doubt as to whether meat farming was that prevalent in California. Seems more of a cotton producing area to me but it's not either

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As I discussed in a previous article, the rest of the nation is very heavily dependent on the fruits and vegetables grown in California. The following numbers represent California’s contribution to our overall production…

-99 percent of the artichokes

-44 percent of asparagus

-two-thirds of carrots

-half of bell peppers

-89 percent of cauliflower

-94 percent of broccoli

-95 percent of celery

-90 percent of the leaf lettuce

-83 percent of Romaine lettuce

-83 percent of fresh spinach

-a third of the fresh tomatoes

-86 percent of lemons

-90 percent of avocados

-84 percent of peaches

-88 percent of fresh strawberries

-97 percent of fresh plums

Without the agricultural production of the state of California, we are in a massive amount of trouble.
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And let's not forget pollution

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Hoping to better understand the health effects of oil fracking, the state in 2013 ordered oil companies to test the chemical-laden waste water extracted from wells.

Data culled from the first year of those tests found significant concentrations of the human carcinogen benzene in this so-called "flowback fluid." In some cases, the fracking waste liquid, which is frequently reinjected into groundwater, contained benzene levels thousands of times greater than state and federal agencies consider safe.

The testing results from hundreds of wells showed, on average, benzene levels 700 times higher than federal standards allow, according to a Times analysis of the state data.

The presence of benzene in fracking waste water is raising alarm over potential public health dangers amid admissions by state oil and gas regulators that California for years inadvertently allowed companies to inject fracking flowback water into protected aquifers containing drinking water.
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/ar ... -82779627/

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18 Mar 2015, 3:16 am

reminds me of that biblical thing about the third bowl being turned, and the water turning to blood.

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18 Mar 2015, 3:32 am

Me is not familiar with the Bible.
Nor with American current affairs much.

My thought would be to ban lawns over a certain size. And those that want to keep their green swards of affluence can replace the living ones with artificial grass http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial ... andscaping
Probably wouldn't make much difference but every little bit helps I suppose.

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18 Mar 2015, 4:09 am

something tells me that NOTHING will be done to forestall whatever will happen. de nile [denial] river will be the only one to be overflowing.

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18 Mar 2015, 4:45 am

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But you can pretty much recycle water, I used to live near a water purification plant and everytime I cycled past it it smelled of eeewwwl, but that is how you keep the water clean after humans used it and made it al filthy.

They are still working on ways to clean fracking waste water thoughhttp://www.ohio.edu/research/comm ... rembly.cfm

I used to work on the bins and the water treatment plant was on our round.
All non-disolvables end up in the treatment plants and we got bins full of fluffy white stuff, most of it from sanitairy towels. The stench was unbelievable a bit like amonium.

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18 Mar 2015, 4:54 am

auntblabby wrote:

something tells me that NOTHING will be done to forestall whatever will happen. de nile [denial] river will be the only one to be overflowing.

It's the same everywhere though. When I lived in the UK they used to have hose pipe bans but those that could afford their own wells and pumps were allowed to water their lawns straight from ground water.
At the time I was working as a gardener on a very high profile job and we were allowed to water the main lawn straight from the water mains in the pavement. Another lawn would get watered with the fire hydrant (till we got a bollocking off the fire brigade but by then summer was pretty much finished).

In the worst case there will be rationing and people queueing up for water and those that misbehave in the queue will be dealt with appropiatly by crowd control measures.

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18 Mar 2015, 2:56 pm

I wonder what will happen with agriculture when the water stops flowing?

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18 Mar 2015, 3:23 pm

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I wonder what will happen with agriculture when the water stops flowing?

IF it stops flowing. I really doubt it will get that far.
If water gets scarce it will push prices up.
If California or the rest of the country can not provide the crops needed they will need to be imported.
And America will have lost a little of it self-sufficiency...

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18 Mar 2015, 3:29 pm

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We hall know if the prediction is right on March 18, 2016. If it is all correct then all the rivers should be dry on that day.

From the link posted by the OP:

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The senior water scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech, wrote that the state has only about one year of water supply left in its reservoirs, in commentary published in the Los Angeles Times Thursday.
Citing NASA data, Famiglietti said that water storage has been declining steadily since 2002, the year that NASA began monitoring the state’s water supply with satellites. He noted that groundwater supplies have been shrinking since the 20th century.

No one wrote anything about rivers in the link provided by the OP. You make it up as you go along to suit your own beliefs me believes :roll:

Here's the link again http://www.marketwatch.com/story/califo ... 2015-03-14
Maybe read it proper this time...

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18 Mar 2015, 4:33 pm

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auntblabby wrote:

I wonder what will happen with agriculture when the water stops flowing?

it would be an irony if we became energy-self-sufficient only to become dependent on foreign food.

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19 Mar 2015, 6:20 pm

Well, Aunt Blabby, you need to get in touch with some Cali-Funny entrepreneur who wants to create energy from burning hydrogen. The reaction produces water. That sort of thing could benefit everyone.

Other than that, best to buy some deep well drilling equipment. Perhaps you could crowd fund it ...

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19 Mar 2015, 6:22 pm

put somebody like elon musk in charge of it, such would [if he succeeded] make him richer than the dreams of avarice. he could BUY California if he wanted, should he rescue them.

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19 Mar 2015, 7:19 pm

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Yeah, but it doesn't create more water than was used to create it in the first place.

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