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libdem4life

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1. If I'm not mistaken, isn't that the water that goes to the Central Valley

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Fri May 20, 2016, 10:45 AM

May 2016

that grows 25% of the nations produce? It got ugly before...the farmers against the urban dwellers. And there just isn't much of an answer to each.

Water, in the form of lawn, keep property values up. But water, in the form of growing food to eat, keeps the food growing. Once during another similar crisis, the Santa Rosa City Council was pressed to ration lawn watering and the community reaction was swift and decisive...no way.

Climate change is inadvertently political.

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Lake Mead, Water Supply For Las Vegas, SoCal and Mexico, Hits Lowest Levels Since Filling In 1930s [View all] hatrack May 2016 OP

If I'm not mistaken, isn't that the water that goes to the Central Valley libdem4life May 2016 #1

Much of it - also to LA for drinking water hatrack May 2016 #2

Now I remember. The whole of So Cal, including the Central Valley, libdem4life May 2016 #3

No. jeff47 May 2016 #5

California's share goes to the Imperial Valley and Southern California. hunter May 2016 #10

Pedantic: It's not that much of a water supply for SoCal anymore jeff47 May 2016 #4

Thanks for the info...I think I remember that. Pray for rain. Lots of it. libdem4life May 2016 #6

Pray for snow. jeff47 May 2016 #7

Yep. Pray for ski weather. My son counts the days. libdem4life May 2016 #9

and yet, even with el Nino I read your snowpack is only 62% of average this year.. mountain grammy May 2016 #12

True lots of the old agricultural land that Mead (and the Owens Valley before that) irrigated . . hatrack May 2016 #8

The results of people-fueled climate change. Create greater need for what libdem4life May 2016 #11

Up here, at the headwaters of the Colorado River, mountain grammy May 2016 #13

"We'll be sending water downstream. Unfortunately, not enough to fill Lake Mead." Nihil May 2016 #14