If you dig trenches and run all the fresh water from the rivers into the ocean, sure man can make a drought. Man can poison the atmosphere, too. We aren't poisoning the atmosphere though.
Right. I'm sure the 2.4 million lbs per second of CO2 emissions from vehicles worldwide is having no effect on the atmosphere.
Denny is right, if we wouldn't divert all of the water from Mt Hood to the Columbia we wouldn't ever have a drought. Fuck dem indians for digging that river thing!
The water diverted was "enough for roughly three million households to live on and to irrigate 600,000 acres of land." There's no computer model involved in guessing those figures. A wise dog once said, "don't shit where you eat."
I think you're on to something, you should drive all of your used water to a reservoir and dump in there.
Lake Anderson and Coyote reservoirs on Coyote creek in Santa Clara County kind of represent the problem with water in California. Built back in the 30s and 50s to store water when its plentiful to make farming the Santa Clara valley possible. Coyote creek runs out of the Diablo range, a normally very dry mountain range. But ever few years it will rain like hell and fill those reservoirs to the max and even then, the Creek will flood Alviso on the south edge of the Bay. Another reservoir could be filled The creek never runs to the bay otherwise as all the water percolates into the valley in normally practice. Now these reservoirs are only filled to 68% capacity when it rains due to fears of what might happen if and earthquake damaged the dam. Back when they were built no one lived in the way, it was farm land. Now residential almost all the way from the dam to the Bay. The farming in California built the reservoir system, but as the farms and orchards were replace with people, water resource development stopped and they fear to use what they have. Look at this list of CA reservoirs and when they were constructed. Not much in the past 50 years while the States Population has went from 10 million to 37 million residences. Reservoirs don't stop droughts, they tide you over until it rains again but that takes a plan. Urban planers never thought they would run out of farms to cut off, but they have now and they fear those dams that made farming possible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dams_and_reservoirs_in_California
In mountain view, every house has a plum tree in the front yard. The trees are perfectly in a line. They dug up the plum orchard to build the subdivision and they left one tree for each home, front yard.
Yes. And so are you. You're bitching about the building of houses for all of the people who moved to California when you're one of the people who moved to California.
Also, it seems to me that complaining that all those other people had the FREEDOM to build houses in orchards, flood plains, and so on is just plain un-Libertarian. barfo
That's not what MarAzul posted. They fill the reservoirs 68% full because the dams were built a long time ago and aren't maintained well enough. They stopped "water resource development" instead of continuing it and now they're afraid to use the old infrastructure due to its neglect. You might want to read what MarAzul actually posted.
