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Before and after photos of rain's impact on CA reservoirs
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2017 Jan 25, 3:40pm 2,925 views 15 comments
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The excess snow pack wait until that melts in the spring
Which is why when the next round of rain comes in a week or so, you're going to be hearing about lots of water being released down rivers. They screwed the pooch on delivering any useful storage locations by fucking around with two BS projects (Train and Tunnels.) It's their favorite past time to waste taxpayer funds. The Feds will mandate the releases for flood control just like last year and the dam's max capacities have already been artificially lowered due to 9/11 regs.
Tenpoundbass
2017 Jan 26, 9:23am
They screwed the pooch on delivering any useful storage locations by fucking around with two BS projects (Train and Tunnels.) It's their favorite past time to waste taxpayer funds.
I'll be the first one to post this headline now.
"California's month's of spring torrential rains floods the hyperloop tunnel. 2 billion in damages estimated"
Ceffer
2017 Jan 26, 10:59am
We need to shoehorn this into the Global Warming Grand Paradigm Theory of Everything!
Patrick, graph is awesome. Anyone paid attention to this yet, it's an awesome tool to show all your dead-beat the drought is never going to end, Brown is God, non-friends: http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/precipapp/get8SIPrecipIndex.action
Best part, the state .gov is the one presenting the data..... Save it often for posterity sake. Just in case, you know, they "adjust" / "normalize" the data....
Precip is on track to Bust records! Hope it keeps up.
Snow historical charts are below, and again, could be on track to break records as well....
MSM are keeping this information quiet as far as I can see, and are very reticent to even discuss the drought monitor updates for more than a quick 5 second view...
Sheep need to be kept in the dark, they can't understand the information....
curious2
2017 Jan 27, 1:37am
MSM are keeping this information quiet as far as I can see
They're reporting on it, but still using the language of "drought" instead of acknowledging that most of California is in a comparatively dry part of North America. IOW, the "drought" may in fact be normal climate for our region. We have three options, possibly complementary:
1) since most developed water goes to animal agriculture, which contributes only 1% of CA GDP, we should charge for commercial use. If that one industry had an incentive to become more efficient, it could save more water than all residential consumption combined;
2) increase reservoir capacity to capture and store more water during unusually wet years like this year;
3) increase desalination capacity.
I call these possibly complementary because #1 could pay for #2 and #3. Meanwhile, although surface water is accumulating, the aquifer will take years to recover, if it can ever recover, which would depend partly on whether we continue getting enough rain every year.
since most developed water goes to animal agriculture, which contributes only 1% of CA GDP, we should charge for commercial use. If that one industry had an incentive to become more efficient, it could save more water than all residential consumption combined;
Brilliant idea!
Take a look at the March 2nd update below. Still on track for wettest year on record....
https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2017/01/25/before-and-after-the-rains-impact-on-three-california-reservoirs/