Floridaman
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There is a reason we say the state bird of California is the locust.more like an image of a metastasizing cancer.
There is a reason we say the state bird of California is the locust.more like an image of a metastasizing cancer.
I'd be fine with cutting Cali, NV, and AZ off from the Colorado whole sale; rather the farmers and such in Mexico use the water, or just let the river flow to the ocean again.
Cali can afford to pay for desal plants, and can set up the pipes to ship it to NV and AZ.
Speaking of Cali recently shot down the idea of desal plants as usual the Californians don’t actually want to solve their problemsThey just need nuclear power plants and lots of desalination plants.
Hell, they should run pipelines to areas where the water table is depleted. Create artificial lakes that can slowly replenish them. Not sure about the science there but I assume that would work.
Water scarcity is a solved problem. We have had the technology for decades.
But screw that. Let's reroute rivers and destroy natural habitats.
Speaking of Cali recently shot down the idea of desal plants as usual the Californians don’t actually want to solve their problems
Speaking of Cali recently shot down the idea of desal plants as usual the Californians don’t actually want to solve their problems
Things seem to be getting worse and worse for the sunshine state as well as the southwest.
Then how about just letting the river reach the ocean again?That's complete BS. Renegotiating the river compact is all well and good, but the interests of a foreign power should never be put ahead of American interests, especially when it comes to a corrupt, failed regime like Mexico.
Yep it devastated the wild life and climate in the border region. Funny how environmentalist california has destroyed a massive ecosystem.Then how about just letting the river reach the ocean again?
Seriously, the over use of the Colorado by Cali, NV, and AZ has been a massive ecological tragedy that has been ongoing for decades now.
Yep it devastated the wild life and climate in the border region. Funny how environmentalist california has destroyed a massive ecosystem.
Even In An Epically Dry Year, Water Flows Into Parched Colorado River Delta
Seven years ago, a pulse of water on the Colorado River at the U.S.-Mexico border temporarily reconnected it to the Pacific Ocean. Scientists used the so-called “pulse flow” to study what plant and animal life returned to the desiccated delta along with water.www.kunc.org
"Actually solving our problems?! No I don't want that! I want to keep my ruinous policies as they are and spread them to the rest of the country for ten years at least!"Speaking of Cali recently shot down the idea of desal plants as usual the Californians don’t actually want to solve their problems
They just need nuclear power plants and lots of desalination plants.
That's a ridiculous mischaracterization of the Yuma Desalting Plant. The fact that Arizona's, y'know, completely landlocked and can't access ocean water to desalinate probably plays a role in why they don't heavily use Desalination.Again, that's simply not factually accurate. California already has more desalination capacity than the rest of North America put together, and there are reasons to disfavor desalination compared to other sources of potable water.
Fun fact: Arizona technically has an even larger desalination plant than the one I was talking about in California, and they've had it for thirty years. You know why no one counts it in desalination capacity? Because it's only been used three times in its entire thirty-year existence, other than which it's remained permanently shut down due to the operating expense being too high relative to other sources of water and because Mexico did some treaty bullshit. The plant operated at one-third capacity for a six-month period from its completion in July 1992 until January 1993, fourteen years later a test run at one-tenth capacity for nine months was authorized to verify that the plant was still operable, and then an experimental pilot run at one-third capacity for three months was completed in 2007.
From what you wrote I reached a different conclusion - farmers have too much political clout. Billions USD spent to keep a few thousand Arizona farmers in operation.For that matter, the whole saga of the Yuma Desalting Plant should serve as a giant object lesson in, "Mexico operates in extreme bad faith to the point where they arguably should be treated as a rogue state."
It has rarely been used because a: The level of salt hitting Mexico is usually less than the treaty stipulates currently. B: if turned on, it will discharge brine into the Ciénega de Santa Clara wetlands, which are home to a wide range of endangered species and that would be an environmental catastrophe.