We have the California Water Project here. Water is captured by Govt. built reservoirs and is released by said reservoirs according to a plan that baffles many of us.
The goals as outlined are to provide for farming in the north, central regions, provide storage to assist in what the Colorado river supplies for supply to the LA basin and to insure an outward flow through the San Joaquin delta thus stemming the inflow of seawater that would destroy the freshwater aqua life.
Our lakes in N. Ca have been drained in the last 2 years and while a lucky bout of late season storms has granted us a temporary reprieve, we should see a massive drain down this year as well.
An easy answer is in sight. Desalinization at the end of the aqueduct: LA
Main problem: uses too much energy.
Answer : park a dedicated nuclear plant right next to it. Safe nuclear power has been in use all over the world for many years. We sold the technology to people who improved and implemented it and are doing fine. A usefull byproduct of nuclear power is cheap hydrogen that could power fuel cells for vehicles and industry. Here in Chico our main exporter, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, has been using a combination of solar power and hydrogen feul cells to provide almost ALL of their power for a couple of years.
Its a win win except for the fact that environmental groups have effectively turned "nuclear" into a buzzword that brings up an absolutely will not negotiate mentality into anyone afflicted by their indoctrinations. I'm most certainly not anti-environment..... I'm just willing to listen to ALL of the facts and I think a good short term solution to both water and energy problems could be found in modern nuclear power. And yes, you can build in my backyard, the chickens won't mind.
But then, on the path to the complete control of humanity's every willful movement, energy and water are key and as long as so many people are willing to make it so easy......
Communism isn't where we are headed. Totalitarianism is a much better word.
Scarcity of resources is an excellent means of pushing public opinion in a direction that certain groups may desire.....until it blows up in their collective face.
Its interesting to watch people harvest what they've sown sometimes.
Everybody's been chanting the mantra of "conserve...conserve...conserve" but when it comes to the eventual outcome... which is always "the people are not capable of implementing the necessary conservation policies on their own and must be guided by a mentoring hand" then the complaints start rolling in.
I would say "next time vote for freedom" but that would be a farce. It wouldn't have made a difference. What I should say is "prepare for revolution" but that wouldn't work any better than voting. Nobody has the true goal in sight. Freedom!
All anyone seems to want is to make their own opinions law for all.
We deserve this! We have sown this crop for decades and its almost ready for harvest.
