Feds Withhold Water To California Farmers For First Time In 54 Years

[ClydeCoulter]

Is this what rings a bell, @Carson and @Origanalist?

Jan 8, 2009
Shutting off the water pumps to save delta smelt unwarranted
http://www.sfgate.com/green/article/Shutting-off-the-water-pumps-to-save-delta-smelt-3176965.php

 

[Pericles]

but not CPI inflation.

There is no inflation comrade. Paying more at the grocery store for smaller size packages is capitalist propaganda.

 

[Origanalist]

Is this what rings a bell, @Carson and @Origanalist?

Jan 8, 2009
Shutting off the water pumps to save delta smelt unwarranted
http://www.sfgate.com/green/article/Shutting-off-the-water-pumps-to-save-delta-smelt-3176965.php

Yes, the smelt.

 

[oyarde]

Wasn't it something about saving some little fishies?

River Smelt of some kind .

 

[Carson]

Yeah. I'm thinking it was smelt also.

The thing that was weird was that after a bill or proposition passed they lifted the ban. At least that is what I'm thinking. I did a Google search and all that seems to fit might be the Bullet Train bill.

It still hasn't come together solid though.

 

[pcosmar]

They can have all the snow on my 20 acres..

Come and get it.

 

[oyarde]

They can have all the snow on my 20 acres..

Come and get it.

Mine has actually started to melt the past three days or so , needless to say I am pleased , I can actually walk around in the driveway without feeling dangerous. Of course , I see next week back to single digits at night so I will probably be splitting wood tomorrow .

 

[Kodaddy]

Maybe they could send the farmers that billion gallons of water that the dude peed in....

 

[Zippyjuan]

It is a flat out drought here. They aren't fooling when they say there IS no water.

Here in San Diego we have had less than one inch of rain in the last year. Normal is about 12- 13 inches. (We get nearly all of our rain in December/ January/ February). They are forcasting a large storm system to finally hit California later this week.

 

[Working Poor]

I can't quite get that synapse to fire though.

Too much fluoride

 

[Origanalist]

Too much fluoride

Add it to the list.

 

[LibertyRevolution]

If your farm doesn't get enough water from rain, and you don't have running water on your property, then I say you should be SOL.
The fact the government is involved in this at all bothers me..

 

[oyarde]

If your farm doesn't get enough water from rain, and you don't have running water on your property, then I say you should be SOL.
The fact the government is involved in this at all bothers me..

I tend to agree , but what if there was running water and the govt took control of it .....

 

[fr33]

If your farm doesn't get enough water from rain, and you don't have running water on your property, then I say you should be SOL.
The fact the government is involved in this at all bothers me..

I do agree but then I look to those huge cities full of people that live off of what others' produce and I have to wonder about it. The concept of self sufficiency and responsibility is so far gone and the dependence upon central planning has infected people.

 

[mad cow]

If your farm doesn't get enough water from rain, and you don't have running water on your property, then I say you should be SOL.
The fact the government is involved in this at all bothers me..

If your city doesn't get enough water from rain,and you don't have running water on your property,then I say you should be SOL.
The fact that the government is involved in this at all bothers me...

I'm looking at you Los Angeles.

(San Diego,Fresno,San Bernardino,Santa Barbara,Palm Springs...)

 

[oyarde]

If your city doesn't get enough water from rain,and you don't have running water on your property,then I say you should be SOL.
The fact that the government is involved in this at all bothers me...

I'm looking at you Los Angeles.

(San Diego,Fresno,San Bernardino,Santa Barbara,Palm Springs...)

Well , yeah , I see no reason for San Diego or LA to have water , lol , of course they will disagree .

 

[kcchiefs6465]

I do agree but then I look to those huge cities full of people that live off of what others' produce and I have to wonder about it. The concept of self sufficiency and responsibility is so far gone and the dependence upon central planning has infected people.

I find my sympathy draining with each passing story of their economic extravagances.

A quarter million annually for a police's pension?... starve.

Same as Detroit was paying hundreds of thousands of dollars per piece of shit leased vehicle.

 

[oyarde]

I find my sympathy draining with each passing story of their economic extravagances.

A quarter million annually for a police's pension?... starve.

Same as Detroit was paying hundreds of thousands of dollars per piece of shit leased vehicle.

I offered Detroit a much better deal , never heard back ....

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Actually I'm pretty sure they did just a few years back.

They didn't turn it back on until some vote passed that had nothing to do with water, from what I'm thinking. It was more like flat out extortion and a pay off.


Maybe it was the ones that control the federal government???

It is a flat out drought here. They aren't fooling when they say there IS no water.

Drove past a reservoir today. It was almost empty. Never seen it like that.

Wasn't it something about saving some little fishies?

Is this what rings a bell, @Carson and @Origanalist?

Jan 8, 2009
Shutting off the water pumps to save delta smelt unwarranted
http://www.sfgate.com/green/article/Shutting-off-the-water-pumps-to-save-delta-smelt-3176965.php

Yep. It was delta smelt. Enviro-crazies creating a non-existent problem.

 

[kpitcher]

I do think we have overlooked the actual price of water. So many aquifers have dropped. Even in my area of Michigan has had wells need to go deeper because of so much irrigation. I'm in an area with lots of lakes. A number of them have pumps to keep lake levels up, with drains if the lakes get too high, so the natural cycles has been done away with. Want to make sure the high tax value 2nd homes are still worth that much.

Right now it's an easy resource to use with no real thought to the cost down the road.