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Environment & Energy

hunter

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10. California's share goes to the Imperial Valley and Southern California.

Reply to libdem4life (Reply #1)

Fri May 20, 2016, 12:25 PM

May 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Valley

That's one of the places growing lettuce in the winter.

Southern California also draws water from the Northern California.

The Colorado River rarely reaches the sea, and any trickle of water that does is too salty for agriculture. That's why the Mexican border is visible in the picture above, as a diagonal line across the lower left-hand corner. There's simply not much good water left in the river when it reaches Mexico.

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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