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BTW, I reject the premise of this thread. The premise of this thread doesn’t make sense as I look at the Pacific Ocean and the desalination plant in Carlsbad and the solar and wind farms popping up everywhere. Not to mention nuclear. So, no, we’re not running out of water, not now, not ever.[/quote]
sigh,… infrastructure to provide potable water can’t be ordered up like something from amazon and delivered the next day
the simple truth is infrastructure for potable water takes a very long time to build AND is subject to the whims of no talent ass clown politicians like Todd Gloria and the rest of the ‘woke’ city council (who seem more interested in social justice issues to appease their political base than building infrastructure),… for example
…yet again seems local politicians have their heads stuck up their ass (given the newspaper headline)
[quote] East County’s $950M water recycling project could be in jeopardy as San Diego nixes pipeline deal
East County officials fear a $950 million sewage recycling project could get flushed down the drain because of a pipeline deal gone awry.
Leaders spearheading the endeavor blame San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria — who signed off on building an eight-mile “brine line” as recently as last year but has since reneged on that commitment.
The pipeline would prevent concentrated waste generated by the East County project’s reverse osmosis filtration system from entering into the city’s own $5 billion Pure Water sewage recycling project now under construction. Instead the byproduct would be routed into the city’s larger wastewater system.
San Diego still wants the pipeline to be built, but now it’s calling on the East County Advanced Water Purification Program to foot the roughly $35 million bill.
for those interested about 1990,… when I was an undergrad @UCSD took a PoliSci seminar class where researchers from SIO and UCSD would give presentations on various topics they were working on
anyway one of the presentations was about water issues specifically about the waste treatment plant at Point Loma and the scientific/economic idiocy of secondary water treatment for water that was going to be dumped into the ocean
basically Revelle (the guy instrumental in founding UCSD) and some other researchers three decades ago mentioned if politicians were smart they would instead somehow build an upgraded water treatment plant AND pipe line to the San Vicente reservoir (so the water could be re-used and increase the supply)
meanwhile (back to the present),… political leadership at the state level like local elected officials seem to also have their head where the sun does not shine (because),…
[quote] Big Water Abusers Ignored as California Drought Persists
In response to the drought, Governor Newsom has largely ignored these large corporate water sources. Instead, he has taken small measures aimed at the most wasteful of urban water uses, asked for voluntary conservation
FYI military troops (especially pilots) are trained to have ‘situational awareness’ because it is the difference between life or death
given what I know,… the end result of all this short-sighted obliviousness toward the drought in the region is an increased probability of a famine (of biblical proportions) or perhaps something worst (i.e. the extinction of homo-sapients)
[quote] The school’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography published a paper that said there is a 5 percent chance of catastrophic change within roughly three decades, and a smaller chance that it would broadly wipe out human life.
(for Colorado River ‘situational awareness’ context)
PS FWIW found the following ‘woke’ online petition sorta a hopeful sign,…
[quote] California is running out of water fast. While corporate interests guzzle up our precious, finite water resources, more than 1 million Californians lack access to safe drinking water.
Our elected leaders have failed to hold corporate interests accountable for their egregious water abuses. We need Governor Newsom to step up to the challenge and use his broad executive authority to rebalance California’s water allocation.
Add your name to tell Governor Newsom to put people over corporate profits and protect the human right to water NOW.
