Agreed. People should look into its history not this climate change bull shit. California has had periods in its past of hundreds of years of drought. None of this is new.
Anyone remember the 1974 Jack Nicholson & Faye Dunaway Movie, "Chinatown"?
It was a movie about Politicians and Big Businessman in California causing a drought in the fertile lands of California's agricultural valleys. The purpose of diverting water away from the lands was to make them worthless, and buy them on the cheap, only to then restore the water supply once Big Business bought the land for a song. Bribes, murder, and financial ruin was all in a days work for their goals to be met.
Oh yeah... and it was a TRUE Story from the early 20th century.
I wish I could remember the documentary I watched a couple years ago. It discussed how the largest landowners in Kern County (I think?) conspired with the Water Board in Sacramento to grant them water rights to the aquifer. A lot of money changed hands under the counter, and the taxpayers of California paid for the infrastructure and canals to pump water into the aquifer, but the landowners get paid to sell the water back to California. It's all a massive scam, and is the single greatest cause of water shortages in the state.
These landowners grow almonds and pistachios which are huge water-hogs per nut harvested, and the only reason these landowners grow these crops is to benefit from the aquifer...not the nuts themselves. My wife drove through there a few years back, and acre after acre of trees were piled up for burning.
I seem to recall that the biggest landowner made his millions selling garbage collectibles through his company, The Franklin Mint, then moved to California.
If all of your farmers moved to just one central state, you'd still produce and provide abundance for the entire country. That's the beauty of America.
I say we drop insane coin and build a channel from the Pacific and bring it I to the middle of the arid Country. Then use the sun to vaporize it into a fresh water reservoir.
CA is, was, and always will be a desert.
The "normal" climate of CA is drought, drought, drought.
If farmers are not allowed to irrigate, it will go back to its natural state.
Agreed. People should look into its history not this climate change bull shit. California has had periods in its past of hundreds of years of drought. None of this is new.
Anyone remember the 1974 Jack Nicholson & Faye Dunaway Movie, "Chinatown"?
It was a movie about Politicians and Big Businessman in California causing a drought in the fertile lands of California's agricultural valleys. The purpose of diverting water away from the lands was to make them worthless, and buy them on the cheap, only to then restore the water supply once Big Business bought the land for a song. Bribes, murder, and financial ruin was all in a days work for their goals to be met.
Oh yeah... and it was a TRUE Story from the early 20th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_(1974_film)
I wish I could remember the documentary I watched a couple years ago. It discussed how the largest landowners in Kern County (I think?) conspired with the Water Board in Sacramento to grant them water rights to the aquifer. A lot of money changed hands under the counter, and the taxpayers of California paid for the infrastructure and canals to pump water into the aquifer, but the landowners get paid to sell the water back to California. It's all a massive scam, and is the single greatest cause of water shortages in the state.
These landowners grow almonds and pistachios which are huge water-hogs per nut harvested, and the only reason these landowners grow these crops is to benefit from the aquifer...not the nuts themselves. My wife drove through there a few years back, and acre after acre of trees were piled up for burning.
I saw that. I believe it was the guy that owns Fiji water and a whole bunch of almond stuff, and the land was near Bakersfield.
I seem to recall that the biggest landowner made his millions selling garbage collectibles through his company, The Franklin Mint, then moved to California.
If all of your farmers moved to just one central state, you'd still produce and provide abundance for the entire country. That's the beauty of America.
on what % of the irrigated land in the United States? LOL
My last 2 posts bear that #. I didn’t even notice when I posted!
Am I the only one seeing 17 all over the place?
I say we drop insane coin and build a channel from the Pacific and bring it I to the middle of the arid Country. Then use the sun to vaporize it into a fresh water reservoir.
Enjoy that samich while you can....
Newsom dumped a trillion gallons of fresh water. He's wasteful and a pyromaniac.