Liberal environmentalists blamed for Calif. water crisis

[Lonestar_logic]

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Former Hewlett-Packard CEO and potential Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina is blaming California’s water crisis on “liberal environmentalists” who are “willing to sacrifice other people’s lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology.”

Like all Republican CON$ervatives Fiorina is a pathological liar.

Californians pass 7.5 billion water bond Now what 89.3 KPCC

Gov. Jerry Brown's water bond coasted to victory Tuesday night, winning more than two "yes" votes for every "no" to fund drought resiliency programs, such as adding water storage, cleaning up polluted groundwater and reusing and recycling water.

Isn't that if you build it they will come......wasn't Fiorina referencing what wasn't done because it was cancelled

Not one dam in California has ever been blocked by environmentalists. CON$ claiming there is no money for the projects is another matter.

Dams and reservoirs can't catch and hold precipitation that does not fall due to climate change caused by global warming.

Poll Indicates Californians Still Oppose Dams Reservoirs - Breitbart

Shasta Dam Raise

 

[Stephanie]

yes we know, the lelf is going batshit crazy over it in the other thread already posted.

I mean mygawd how DARE SHE

 

[Preacher]

What the hell is the lelf?

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Whacked out loons....

California s Green Drought - WSJ

 

[Siete]

In Australia, drought conditions remained relatively constant with some drought intensification in the interior of the continent. Fire danger continues to be high across New Zealand where water storage continued to fall, particularly on the South Island where drought has been declared.

damn Californian liberals ...


lol

 

[Stephanie]

Whacked out loons....

California s Green Drought - WSJ

well they (whacked out loons who wont believe anything if doesn't come from: )thinkprogres, hufferpuffer, mediagarbagematters, etc and are the experts on everything. ya know.

 

[chikenwing]

In Australia, drought conditions remained relatively constant with some drought intensification in the interior of the continent. Fire danger continues to be high across New Zealand where water storage continued to fall, particularly on the South Island where drought has been declared.

damn Californian liberals ...


lol

You must be on some real good drugs.

 

[Manonthestreet]

What's making it worse, is that there are a lot more people using what water there is.

Sure, it's a few mouthfulls of water that's the problem.

California Suffers Historic Drought While Oil Industry Wastes 2 Million Gallons of Water Daily

Every single day in California, the oil and gas industry uses way more than 2 million gallons of what precious little water the state has remaining in dangerous extraction techniques such as fracking, acidizing, and cyclic steam injection. This abominable waste of water is in spite of California farmers, cities, and residents struggling to find ways to conserve water and meet the new mandate to reduce water use by 25% to survive an historic drought. While the rest of the state is now forced to do its share to conserve a rapidly diminishing water reserve, the oil and gas industry continues using, contaminating, and disposing of staggering amounts of precious water each day.


To make matters that much worse, the over 2 million gallons of toxic water the oil and gas industry disposes of daily is pumped into the aquifer and poisons the diminishing underground supply at an alarming rate; so much so that well over a hundred (at last count) drinking-water wells have been shut down by state water regulators and the EPA due to oil waste-water contamination.

The shuttered wells have forced residents of some California cities that are completely out of water to travel to buy bottled water for all their needs. Worse, the water the people are forced to purchase for basic survival was absconded from Californians by another corporation that believes water is not a basic human right but a commodity reserved for the corporation’s profit in the ultimate representation of corporate greed at the expense of human lives.


The Nestlé company, one of the world’s largest multinational corporate entities, operates several water-bottling plants up and down California in some of the areas hardest hit by the historic drought. Instead of helping conserve a dwindling natural resource, Nestlé is robbing what little water the state has left either to sell on the foreign market or to the areas where wells are dried up or poisoned by the oil and gas industry. Just to demonstrate the Nestlé company’s disregard for California’s lack of water, it takes three litres of water to produce one litre of bottled water, and Nestlé rejected several requests and demands from resident and activists to “halt its irresponsible and wasteful” bottling operations because they are in business to make money. What is even more despicable, like the oil industry, Nestlé enlists willing Republicans and employs lobbyists to block attempts to force the company to adhere to water conservation efforts the rest of the state is held to in the name of protecting corporate profits. Nestlé’s CEO is notorious for claiming water is not a basic human right and just another commodity that exists for the company’s profits.

I would agree, shut down the ethanol plants wasting all that water

 

[Stephanie]

Skip a shower so you all can water all of these...more important

 

[Syriusly]

The drought is caused by lack of precipitation.

What a clueless post. We don't have a drought every year. It rains and snows quite at times. That's why we have a network of reservoirs and canals to store and distribute water. Sadly, the Democrats who control the state cancelled water storage projects in the 1970s. We've added no new capacity while the population has doubled. Add to that the lunacy of actually draining reservoirs for Environ Nazi purposes. The water shortage is a Man Made Disaster.

California drought Past dry periods have lasted more than 200 years scientists say - San Jose Mercury News

It is against My Policies to click on links for which the poster has neither the courtesy nor intellectual honest to provide any commentary.

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Plus it's from the Mercury news. you aren't missing anything. I lived in California off and on in the late 80's up to 1993 when we moved to Alaska

Its a pretty good article- much better than the chicken little crap the haters post here on USMB

California drought Past dry periods have lasted more than 200 years scientists say - San Jose Mercury News


Modern megadrought

What would happen if the current drought continued for another 10 years or more?

Without question, longtime water experts say, farmers would bear the brunt. Cities would suffer but adapt.

The reason: Although many Californians think that population growth is the main driver of water demand statewide, it actually is agriculture. In an average year, farmers use 80 percent of the water consumed by people and businesses -- 34 million of 43 million acre-feet diverted from rivers, lakes and groundwater, according to the state Department of Water Resources.

"Cities would be inconvenienced greatly and suffer some. Smaller cities would get it worse, but farmers would take the biggest hit," said Maurice Roos, the department's chief hydrologist. "Cities can always afford to spend a lot of money to buy what water is left."

Roos, who has worked at the department since 1957, said the prospect of megadroughts is another reason to build more storage -- both underground and in reservoirs -- to catch rain in wet years.

In a megadrought, there would be much less water in the Delta to pump. Farmers' allotments would shrink to nothing. Large reservoirs like Shasta, Oroville and San Luis would eventually go dry after five or more years of little or no rain.

Farmers would fallow millions of acres, letting row crops die first. They'd pump massive amounts of groundwater to keep orchards alive, but eventually those wells would go dry. And although deeper wells could be dug, the costs could exceed the value of their crops. Banks would refuse to loan the farmers money.

 

[mikegriffith1]

Carly Fiorina Liberal environmentalists to blame for Calif. drought TheHill

Hey she has to get some stupid zingers in there as well!

Sure his had nothing to do with it

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I don't see how protecting our environment is a liberal or conservative thing.

I notice you say nothing about the specific arguments that she made in support of her position. I guess in your mind it's enough to simply state her position and act as though she were arguing for a flat earth.

 

[pismoe]

Australia , who cares about Australia or new Zealand ?? You from Australia Siete ??

 

[Manonthestreet]

www.technologyreview.com/news/413002/measuring-corn-ethanols-thirst-for-water/


smarterfuelfuture.org/blog/details/wasting-water-on-ethanol-amid-california-drought
Impact on CA

 

[Manonthestreet]

Oooooooops. Suddenly got inconvenient. Estimates of 1700 to over 2000 Gallons of water per gallon of ethanol produced in CA

 

[Manonthestreet]

Follow the science libs...end ethanol

 

[TooTall]

The drought is caused by lack of precipitation.

Here is the reason for the drought problem as stated by Fiorino.

“Despite the fact that California has suffered from droughts for millennia, liberal environmentalists have prevented the building of a single new reservoir or a single new water conveyance system over decades during a period in which California’s population has doubled.”

 

[Manonthestreet]

Water to the people, not big ethanol!

 

[NYcarbineer]

The drought is caused by lack of precipitation.

Here is the reason for the drought problem as stated by Fiorino.

“Despite the fact that California has suffered from droughts for millennia, liberal environmentalists have prevented the building of a single new reservoir or a single new water conveyance system over decades during a period in which California’s population has doubled.”

So? She's full of shit.

 

[Pedro de San Patricio]

Wut? It's because there's a drought, there are too many people here, most of those people have been totally ignoring the state's attempts to conserve water, and the government has been too incompetent to build desalination plants. I've only lived here for two years and even I know that.

 

[Siete]

In Australia, drought conditions remained relatively constant with some drought intensification in the interior of the continent. Fire danger continues to be high across New Zealand where water storage continued to fall, particularly on the South Island where drought has been declared.

damn Californian liberals ...


lol

You must be on some real good drugs.

I bet you thought of that ALL by yourself didn't you?

if liberals caused the drought in Cali, they must be responsible for the world drought too. Either that or the world climate isn't connected.

which is it?