[quote=FlyerInHi]The contingency links you provided are for temporary disaster only
You can’t live in your mansion in LA for decades in case of doom. There will be marauders with guns everywhere and supplies will not get through.
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links were out line ideas, since nothing in the “local” MLS looked as remotely cool as stuff I’ve in the action/spy movies OR combined the luxury I am worthy of…
and a (website) for a “trump” branded luxury zombie apocalypse condo shelter w/ 24/7 concierge service, was nowhere to be found…
and the scorecard indicates a “temporary reprieve” from the drought here in california…
BUT think it best if things were put in context…
[quote=desertsun.com] USGS estimates vast amounts of water used in California
How much water does California use each year?
It’s a complicated question, but the U.S. Geological Survey now has an answer for 2010: 42 million acre-feet per year, or about 38 billion gallons per day.
That includes water pumped from wells plus all of the water taken from sources such as rivers, canals and reservoirs.
To put that vast number in perspective: California has been using the equivalent of the full capacity of Lake Shasta, the state’s largest reservoir, every 40 days.
In one newly published study in the journal Environmental Research Letters, University of California researchers found that the state has handed out approximately five times more water rights than the total amount of freshwater runoff in an average year.
perhaps in the relentless pursuit of creating an agribusiness friendly environment here in CA, seems we presently have a government w/ a 5:1 “over promised” ratio of assigned water rights to average annual rain fall runoff,… which kinda brings to mind an enron style accounting system or fabulous returns that might be promised “suckers” in a “Ponzi scheme” (before the inevitable fall)
[quote=breitbart.com]
you know some of the best deals
are the deals you don’t do
you understand that
and we’re going to solve your water problem
you have a water problem that is so insane
it is so ridiculous
where they are taking the water
and shoving it out to sea
…blah, blah, blah
no one understands it
and I’ve heard this from other friends of mine in california
YES we have a water problem that is so insane and so ridiculous…
BUT the problem isn’t “a certain kind of three-inch fish,” its politicians/lawyers who time and time again demonstrate similar brain power to “a certain kind of three-inch fish” in that they seem to have no concept of math and cause problems in the first place by doing stupid shit that only exacerbates things during periods of natural drought,… like NOT REALIZING that allocating 370 million acre-feet of water rights BUT HAVING PUBLISHED DATA that states in an average year there is only about 70 million acre-feet of freshwater runoff, IS A BASIC MATH PROBLEM
i’d guess the statement “DEMAND (370 million acre-feet of water) > SUPPLY (70 million acre-feet of freshwater runoff)” isn’t the simple straightforward explanation donald or his friends want to acknowledge as reality!
how much ya wanna bet *cough* there was some old boys club networking and political champaign donations (i.e. agribusiness lobbyists)
unfortunately the situation is made much, much, much worst because as there is a “swaps” danger WRT the (mis)management of the local public pension portfolio, seems there is a parallel trend toward creating a “World Water Market and Water Derivatives”
FWIW IMHO the only way to avoid a dystopian future (for the masses WRT “water”), is hope benevolent scientists develop new technology to lower the cost of producing deSal water, and that the population at large agree to some kind of moral guidelines WRT caring for the global environment (i.e. Laudato Si’)
as it stands current deSal is costly because the filters are “thick” and require high pressure (i.e. HIGH amounts of energy) to force fluid through the membrane
if a new single atom “thin” filter can be developed on a commercial scale, then all that will be needed is low pressure (i.e. LOW energy requirements) to force fluid through the “thin” membrane
another alternative deSal setup that could be viable in arid regions would be concentrated solar, which was shown being tested in a news segment awhile back (TechKnow: The New Dust Bowl)
have to go now and (as you suggested) look for a sustainable family farm where I can live in peace, off the grid *far* away from the series of intertubes that delivers information (like Donald Trump tells Californians there is no drought) around the world via computer
