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Already one (desal plant) in Carlsbad. There will have to be others, combined with environmental mitigation measures. On the other hand, the one nuke plant in the area, at San Onofre, has now been shut down.
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At this moment of this intellectual stimulating thread, might I suggest everyone to reread "Cadillac Desert"
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Everyone who lives west of the Mississippi should have to read that to understand how we got where we are.
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Even small things like being on well water, having a septic tank, having trees, seeing wildlife, being close to a creek and seeing it overflow or go dry. You start to pay attention and you start to care. Hard to do in a city, I have lived both ways.
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Will have to check it out. Thanks.
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One of the scariest books I've ever read. Almost as bad as The Uninhabitable Earth which is more current. Make it a dark weekend and go back-to-back!
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I think this’ll happen in south Florida before the southwest but it’s coming for both, regardless. |
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80% of the water use in California is used by agriculture. Even small efficiency gains in water use there can generate a lot of extra water.
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It's 91%
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I recently did a southwest road trip to see my parents after 20 mo. in Phoenix. I flew into Las Vegas to meet daughter 1, take PCR and drive HWY 93 thru the Mojave.
After visiting parents, we drove to LA on HWY 10. The bathtub ring on Lake Mead really sets a tone on the drought. The large wind farms and solar fields along 93 were really impressive. Ironnically, HWY 93 from Kingman to Wickenberg looks great because of the monsoons and the Joshua Trees are really spectacular along the road. Finally, after driving on Hwy 10 from Phoenix and viewing the dust devils for a while, you cross the Colorado at Ehrenberg. You can pull of the HWY and drive down to the river which is quite pretty. But the whole area south of the HWY on the California side is just irrigated farmland. https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4630...7i16384!8i8192 versus what it should look like- How long can it last? Last edited by verticaldoug; 08-30-2021 at 07:09 AM. |
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And then watch "Chinatown" to be really depressed.
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The real scary part is that was written almost 20 years ago.
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A question about water resources for California residents--are the storm drains and waste sewers still connected, run into the same waste treatment plants and then get dumped out to sea?
Or have there been programs for returning gray water or ground water through groundwater reclamation sites? (I ask because we are still running almost everything into the Hudson, even though we have a sole source aquifer for drinking water that suffers in dry years, while our population is growing like crazy. (We do have one operational gray water treatment site--but a few years ago they tried to ram through a desal plant, on the Hudson, just below the Indian Point nuclear generating plant.) Last edited by paredown; 08-30-2021 at 08:27 AM. |
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