Originally posted by: tom
80% of CA's water usage is agricultural
https://sites.uci.edu/energyobserver/2015/04/21/california-water-usage-in-crops-and-the-water-value-of-almonds/
You would think an agricultural expert like kevin would know that only 40% of the CA water is used for agriculture & Ca grows over 400 different crops.
Rather than using the water SF lets the water run into the ocean.
The State Water Resources Control Board - plan that will require the rivers in the San Joaquin watershed to maintain 40% of unimpeded flow levels from February to June, more than twice the current amount of water. That means taking more water from farmers — and from the city of San Francisco itself, which relies on water from the Hetch Hetchy reservoir on the Tuolume River.
Since 2008, 1.4 trillion gallons of water has been flushed into the San Francisco Bay to protect the Delta smelt, an endangered species of fish, from water pumps.
California’s bizarre water priorities led state officials to demand that the Oakdale Irrigation District, near Modesto, release “pulse flows” of water from a small reservoir to help 12 fish swim out from the reservoir and down the Stanislaus River into the Pacific Ocean. Year after year, trillions of gallons of water are wasted like this in California, even in drought times, to save a few fish.
Environmental concerns have held up the development of a privately planned water desalination plant in Orange County. The California Coastal Commission, a powerful agency with control of development along the shoreline, is holding up the desalination plant
Bingo, Tom ! You can let Salmon become extinct and cutoff all California river flows to the ocean. ANd I guess thats cool with you. Or maybe not - because you your purposefully omitted that fact from your simple solution to California's water issue.....no worries, Sean Hannity does it all the time too. Probably where you got your narrative from.
Anyway, I'm glad you made it back from election therapy and are posting again.
