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AZ Jim
05-28-2016, 11:44 PM
But he's "gonna solve their water problems". How much of this guys bullshit can he sell you?
http://www.insideedition.com/headlines/16665-trump-tells-california-farmers-there-is-no-drought-blames-water-shortage-on-tiny-fish

Mac-7
05-29-2016, 01:26 AM
What trump is saying is that tree (and fish) huggers cannot blaim lack of water for the farmers on drought.

if the choice is water for these minnows or water for farmers trump will help the farmers.

That makes a lot of sense to me.

Peter1469
05-29-2016, 06:13 AM
Trump is talking about California putting a trash fish above humans.

AZ Jim
05-29-2016, 11:33 AM
(http://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2015/04/15/in-drought-stricken-california-how-much-water-does-agriculture-use)

http://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2015/04/15/in-drought-stricken-california-how-much-water-does-agriculture-use (http://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2015/04/15/in-drought-stricken-california-how-much-water-does-agriculture-use)

AZ Jim
05-29-2016, 11:55 AM
PS California has almost 40 million people who also need water. I was born there and spent my first 55 years there so I say to that little NY manbaby that he is full of beans.

waltky
05-30-2016, 08:50 PM
Lake Mead almost gone...
http://www.politicalforum.com/images/smilies/icon_omg.gif
With Extended Drought, Biggest US Reservoir at Lowest Level Ever
May 30, 2016 - The 16-year drought in parts of the western United States has dropped the water level in the country's largest reservoir at Lake Mead to its lowest level in its 81-year history.


When full, the lake — straddling the Nevada-Arizona state border that was formed with the construction of the Hoover Dam during the Great Depression of the 1930s — has a surface elevation of more than 370 meters above sea level. It provides crucial water to the two states and also California, including Los Angeles, the country's second-biggest city.


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The image shows Lake Mead on the Nevada-Arizona state border at its lowest point ever, taken by the Thematic Mapper on the Landsat 5 satellite, May 2016.

But the Lake Mead level has been falling during the extended drought that has parched farmlands in the west and led to water rationing. In the last week, the recorded lake level fell to 327 meters above sea level. Lake Mead is currently at 37 percent of capacity and its shoreline has the distinctive look of a dirty bath tub, with rings marking where water levels once were.


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The image shows Lake Mead on the Nevada-Arizona state border at its highest point ever, taken by the Thematic Mapper on the Landsat 5 satellite, May 1984.

Melting snowpacks that feed the lake from the Colorado River have diminished over the years. Emergency measures could be implemented if the water levels continue to fall throughout 2016, but the agency that manages the lake is predicting that its level could rise slightly in the coming months.

http://www.voanews.com/content/with-extended-drought-biggest-us-reservoir-at-lowest-level/3351905.html

JDubya
05-30-2016, 10:20 PM
Trump is talking about California putting a trash fish above humans.

It's not a trash fish. It's a major part of the diet of the salmon that are central to a several million dollar a year fishing industry. If the Delta smelt goes, the salmon go.

Plus, much of California's water problems have to do with antiquated and outdated irrigation techniques and even worse, their choice of growing crops that require ungodly amounts of water just because they bring a higher price.

Blaming it on a fish is just typical scapegoating.

AZ Jim
05-30-2016, 11:22 PM
What trump is saying is that tree (and fish) huggers cannot blaim lack of water for the farmers on drought.

if the choice is water for these minnows or water for farmers trump will help the farmers.

That makes a lot of sense to me.I don't "BLAME" you. Never too late Mac, there's always night school.

Mac-7
05-31-2016, 01:57 AM
I don't "BLAME" you. Never too late Mac, there's always night school.

Why the personal insults Jim?

not just me but all over the forum with anyone who disagrees with you

I know you are old and maybe that is your excuse.

But its lucky for you that you're a lib posting on a lib board otherwise they - meaning your fellow libs - would have driven you off long ago.

waltky
02-03-2017, 07:41 PM
No more drought in California...
http://www.politicalforum.com/images/smilies/icon_w00t.gif
Record-breaking Snowfall Ends Drought in Northern California
February 02, 2017 - Record-breaking snowfall has put a huge dent in California's severe drought, scientists said Thursday.


Back-to-back-to-back blizzards in January left snowpack 173 percent above average in the Sierra Nevada, providing three-fourths of the state's yearly precipitation in just a few weeks. "It gives everything a brighter outlook," Department of Water Resources official Frank Gehrke said.


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Fog and mist shroud the Sierra Nevada near Echo Summit, Calif., Feb. 2, 2017. Three January blizzards left snowpack 173 percent above average in the mountains.

While the officials said Northern California was now out of drought conditions, Governor Jerry Brown is waiting until the end of the traditional rainy season in April to decide whether he will declare an end to the statewide drought emergency.

California has been in a drought emergency since 2014. Officials said 95 percent of the state had been affected by the severely dry conditions.

http://www.voanews.com/a/record-breaking-snowfall-ends-drought-northern-california/3704553.html

See also:

Officials: More Than 40 Percent of California Out of Drought
January 12, 2017 — More than 40 percent of California is out of drought, federal drought-watchers said Thursday at the tail end of powerful storms that sent thousands of people fleeing from flooding rivers in the north, unleashed burbling waterfalls in southern deserts, and doubled the vital snowpack in the Sierra Nevada in little more than a week.


Declaring California as a whole to be past its official three-year drought emergency will be up to Gov. Jerry Brown, who will probably wait until the end of the winter rain and snow season to make that decision. But for people in northern cities such as Sacramento, where state workers opened flood gates to ease pressure on levees for the first time in a dozen years, releasing a two-mile-wide torrent of excess water from the surging Sacramento River, the call on declaring the dry spell over in Northern California looked much clearer.

Heaviest rain in 20 years

“It's hard to say we have a drought here right now,” said Jay Lund, director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California at Davis. Lund spoke as he returned from taking students to see the wrenched-open, century-old flood gates in Sacramento, which got its heaviest rain in 20 years this week. The weekly drought report by federal and academic water experts showed 42 percent of the state had emerged from drought. This time last year, only 3 percent of California was out of drought.


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A rainbow appears over a flooded landscape in Hollister, California, Jan. 11, 2017. More than 40 percent of California has emerged from a punishing drought that covered the whole state a year ago, federal drought-watchers said.

Southern California remains in drought

Southern California, which is also receiving welcome rain from the storms, remains in drought but experienced a dramatic reduction in severity. Just 2 percent of the entire state, a swath between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, remains in the sharpest category of drought that includes drying wells, reservoirs and streams and widespread crop losses. Forty-three percent of the state was in that direst category this time a year ago. The Cachuma reservoir near still-arid Santa Barbara was at just 8 percent of capacity, even as authorities at Northern California's Shasta Dam opened spillways for the first time in six years to make room for more water to come.

Rains bring rockslides, mudslides

Like many people in Northern California, winery tasting-room supervisor Nate Hayes went out to marvel when this week's heavy rains started and enjoyed taking his canoe down the flooded streets of his town of Rohnert Park. By Thursday, Hayes and others were tired of the rockslides and mudslides complicating commutes and the round-the-clock downpours keeping everyone inside. “We're all really excited for the rain,” Hayes said. “But at the same time we kind of want it to be over.”

'Atmospheric river' (http://www.voanews.com/a/california-drought-recovery-powerful-storms-flooding/3674694.html)

donttread
02-04-2017, 07:30 AM
But he's "gonna solve their water problems". How much of this guys bullshit can he sell you?
http://www.insideedition.com/headlines/16665-trump-tells-california-farmers-there-is-no-drought-blames-water-shortage-on-tiny-fish

It's no such much a drought as it is man's arrogance in the face of nature , insisting on "hydrating " dry areas with water from elsewhere that cannot be pulled back out of the aquafer like it can in it's rightful watershed. But tell me again how over population doesn't matter. That meme was started once our campaign to control population failed miserably.