San Bruno Fire Disaster

[rubato]

Every single water agency in the western US who could, fucked someone else to get their water.

That's the fact.

All else is whinging.

And yes, all of the above have been subject to remediation, including the Owens Valley.


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rubato

[Long Run]

It is a matter of degree, and no one comes close to water slurping/envy of Southern California.

[oldr_n_wsr]

Isn't the Colorado River dried up before it even makes it to the Pacific now-a-days?

[dales]

I believe what's left of the Colorado river flows into the Gulf of Mexico.

[oldr_n_wsr]

I'll have to look that up. I remember seeing some documantary that the Colorado was dry "long" before it makes it wherever it used to make it.

[Long Run]

That would be the Gulf of California, between Baja and mainland Mexico. Never have seen a picture of how the river dwindles out, but read a story of a guy kayaking the Colorado who had to carry his boat for several miles when the river hit the swamp/delta at the river's entry to the Gulf and became a series of small canals. Given that Arizona takes out a huge chunk, then Nevada, then Imperial Valley, and all the others, before it crosses the border, it is any wonder there's any agua.

[Andrew D]

LADWP's latest scheme is apparently to convert the Owens Valley into a giant solar farm -- not to feed LA's demand for energy but to feed LA's general fund by selling the energy it steals from the Owens Valley. In rubato's parallel universe, that and being forced by legal action to shallow-flood the bed of Owens Lake in order to prevent the toxic dust storms which LADWP created in the first place are called "remediation".

LADWP has strangled the towns of the Owens Valley. Its ultimate objective is to drive out all the inhabitants, because all it cares about is getting its hands on any resources it can find. Claiming that it is like other California utilities is pure ignorance.

[rubato]

It is a matter of degree, and no one comes close to water slurping/envy of Southern California.

Well there is the water slurping envy of the Westlands water district, there is the water slurping envy of rice farmers, there is the water slurping envy of alfalfa growers around Bakersfield, there is the water slurping envy of whole regions of the central valley who pumped so much ground water that the ground under them collapsed and permanently shrunk the volume of the aquifer they were pumping out of ...





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rubato