Farmers could do this but on a major scale and have free water!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6w0-RkDnLA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6w0-RkDnLA
Appropriately some of the largest public golf courses in LA are located near water reclamation facilities and are watered with reclaimed water. That's fine by me.good. And it should be that way all over the planet. Nothing worse than a golf course.
anyway, while this is good, it should have been done last year or even the year before.
It's a first in time, first in right system so down stream users with senior rights would get their water allotment before upstream junior users get any of their allotment. However, being upstream with a good lawyer is a pretty good position to be in.I recently read a story about how water rights work in the Western states. Apparently when you own water rights, your ownership is for a quantity of water, not a percentage of available water. So if someone upstream from you takes the amount of water they are entitled to, and due to low water supply there's not enough left for you, you're screwed. That's the system. So those who are far enough upstream to get all the water they are entitled to are going to take it. And too bad, so sad for those downstream.
Appropriately some of the largest public golf courses in LA are located near water reclamation facilities and are watered with reclaimed water. That's fine by me.
In essence, only 0.007 percent of the planet's water is available to fuel and feed its 6.8 billion people.
Due to geography, climate, engineering, regulation, and competition for resources, some regions seem relatively flush with freshwater, while others face drought and debilitating pollution. In much of the developing world, clean water is either hard to come by or a commodity that requires laborious work or significant currency to obtain.
Most orchards (almonds, walnuts, pistachios) are on a drip system and have been for some time. I live in Butte County (almonds, English walnuts) and you rarely see a flooded orchard. Rice farmers make up for it though - can't believe they grow such a water hungry crop in the Sacramento Valley and then sell almost all of it to South Korea.
it's not just direct water use. It's the nitrogen load and useless chemicals that golf courses demand, and are constantly dumped into the water table so mouthbreathers can have their purdy grass to step on.
Is this just a completely silly notion, or should say California and Texas look into water pipelines to send seawater inland to reservoirs? I've kinda wondered about this with the sea rising (which no pumping the water inland won't solve that but it could help some while also helping to provide water relief to ag areas that droughts wreak havoc on). Obviously this would take a long time to setup, let alone for it to contribute a lot to water supply in the regions it gets pumped to (and they'd have to figure out some way to keep it from getting drained ASAP). The reservoirs could also double as recreational areas.
What about the salt?
aqueduct from pacific to salton sea would at least solve the salton sea issue ^_^
What about the salt?
Or the fact that it would have absolutely no effect on sea level, whatsoever? For reference, removing every single ship on the ocean would reduce sea levels by six microns, which would be wiped out in 16 hours. Six million years ago when the Mediterranean dried up the global sea level rose by 10m. How big would these reservoirs be, compared to that? Here's a hint, if we turned all of Texas into an aquarium (reservoir) large enough to hold the Mediterranean, its walls would have to be 4 miles tall. For something slightly more comprehensible, it would take a 400 yard dam around all of Texas to make a reservoir that could lower the global sea level by about two feet.
We could maybe do that, if we really wanted to and weren't afraid to spend trillions, but that brings us back to the salt. You can't drink seawater, as far as irrigation goes it's probably the only option that's actually worse than Brawndo, and it's not even that useful for industry since it's so corrosive. Seawater is basically useless unless it's desalinated, but then what's the point of the reservoir, to allow the construction of desalination plants in Oklahoma and New Mexico? The only good thing about this plan is that destroying it gave me an excuse to procrastinate for a while.
Too. Many. People.This is just a tip of the iceberg. Learn more about the potential water crisis.
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshwater/freshwater-crisis/
Too. Many. People.
Just like any other life form, from bacteria up: Abundance of resources and absence of predators = high rate of reproduction and explosive population growth.
Abundance ends, and most of the bloated population dies out.
Unfortunately for us, instinctual urges often exceed our intelligence's ability to mitigate some of their harmful effects.
This nonsense again? The amount that Nestle bottles is insignificant. Why don't you pick a *single* golf course and complain about that golf course. The water use is comparable. For numeric help, a small pond, say 1 acre, 1 foot deep all the way across, is roughly a million gallons.
Meanwhile,Nestle pumps 80 million gallons a year out of the aquifer there...out of
Sacramento alone..
They have other wells in California
Well, don't tell schmuckley, but all the other states import our water, 16 ounce bottles at a time, to use in our showers that pump out 3 gallons per minute, for 30 minute showers twice a day.If people would stop buying the bottled water all the time this would stop.. Comes from the same place as everything else.
"Our weather in California is awesome! It's always nice and warm, and never rains!"
They will have to do whatever is necessary to make sure people have water. This could require massive changes in behavior. Will they have to make a choice between irrigation and water to homes? Could devastate some growers, and of course they'll want reimbursed for their losses.
But if history is any indication, people will use all the water they want up to the day the tap runs dry, figuring why should I conserve when my neighbor is still washing his car in the privacy of his closed garage.
This nonsense again? The amount that Nestle bottles is insignificant. Why don't you pick a *single* golf course and complain about that golf course. The water use is comparable. For numeric help, a small pond, say 1 acre, 1 foot deep all the way across, is roughly a million gallons.
good. And it should be that way all over the planet. Nothing worse than a golf course.
it's not just direct water use. It's the nitrogen load and useless chemicals that golf courses demand, and are constantly dumped into the water table so mouthbreathers can have their purdy grass to step on.