California Drought

[SBS933]

Blazin my R.C. boat in the aquaduct. GLASS starting to wonder if the drought is ever gonna go away, the aquaduct never stops rolling HHMMMMMM.

[Ziggy]

Blazin my R.C. boat in the aquaduct. GLASS starting to wonder if the drought is ever gonna go away, the aquaduct never stops rolling HHMMMMMM.

I seen what you talkin' 'bout.

[RioShock25]

Every drop of the CRA water is getting used. We are using the heck out of DVL water too
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I seen what you talkin' 'bout.

[Ziggy]

Every drop of the CRA water is getting used. We are using the heck out of DVL water too
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Im one of the users living in socal.

[C-2]

Any of you ever see "Cadillac Desert" by Marc Reisner on PBS? There are some spinoff's on Youtube. Interesting stuff, Floyd Dominy and his battle with his arch nemesis David Brower of the Sierra Club.

Mulholland...the pilfering of the Bishop/Owens Valley water resources, the collapse of the dam where Magic mountain now stands...I love reading about the local water wars.

Did you know, MWD was created specifically to manage California's share of the Colorado River system?

[thatguy]

We have a kick ass well, part of the Cottonwood water basin, about 1/2 mile from Sac River.

I water the yard at an obscene rate, as do all my neighbors.
Got a 2" drop line in the well for the field sprinklers too.
Tried to pump it down once for a recharge test...2" pump wouldn't do it.
Pay irrigation tax because of our location, but we only see an electric bill increase with more water use.

Oh yeah, 38,000 gallon pool is auto filled from the well also...
Poor bastards.

[C-2]

We have a kick ass well, part of the Cottonwood water basin, about 1/2 mile from Sac River.

I water the yard at an obscene rate, as do all my neighbors.
Got a 2" drop line in the well for the field sprinklers too.
Tried to pump it down once for a recharge test...2" pump wouldn't do it.
Pay irrigation tax because of our location, but we only see an electric bill increase with more water use.

Oh yeah, 38,000 gallon pool is auto filled from the well also...
Poor bastards.

Yup. we have a water well at our horse property (we live in a regular tract house, not at the horse property). The well was hand dug by miners and is a shallow water well at 30'. Why only 30' I always wondered...why didn't they dig deeper? Turns out the laws of physics dictate you can only pull water 26 head feet. Anything further then you have to push and pull. Crazy old bastards knew a thing, or two. I had a water sample analyzed and the water is somewhat brackish, but is free from pollutants; and the nitrates are fine (suggesting no pollution from fertilizer or waste). Now, if I can only find all the gold they mined at Mt. Whitney...which is rumored to be buried on our property.

Riverside has a high water table and mostly relies on its own wells for water, and we sell the excess to other cities. The city is reluctant to renew any gas station leases for that reason (there are only 3 gas stations in our zip code).

Like others, I don't understand why we don't build a kick ass desalination plant.

[thatguy]

Any of you ever see "Cadillac Desert" by Marc Reisner on PBS? There are some spinoff's on Youtube. Interesting stuff, Floyd Dominy and his battle with his arch nemesis David Brower of the Sierra Club.

Mulholland...the pilfering of the Bishop/Owens Valley water resources, the collapse of the dam where Magic mountain now stands...I love reading about the local water wars.

Did you know, MWD was created specifically to manage California's share of the Colorado River system?

Yeah, I've read all about the water wars. Interesting stuff!
Funny thing, it's still going on.
Hard to believe that Mulholland was cleared of wrongdoing
In the dam disaster, even though he was forced to resign.
He SAW the corrosion but said it was no biggy.

[riverrunner1984]

I heard a study on the radio (I'll look for the article later) that said we have the same water reserves that we did in the 70's. The only issue is that is the 70's CA only had 20 million people. Now CA has 38 million people. Subsequently enough, more people = more water consumption. Without turning this political at all, why do we not build more water reservoirs or a desalinization plant instead of a "High Speed Rail" that really doesn't go anywhere?

In the same study it said the last century has been the "wettest" in the last 7 centuries.