way to go blondies....engineering geniuses yaz bee.....





https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/califo...31455.html

Quote:TERRA BELLA
Completed during Harry Truman’s presidency, the Friant-Kern Canal has been a workhorse in California’s elaborate man-made water-delivery network. It’s a low-tech concrete marvel that operates purely on gravity, capable of efficiently piping billions of gallons of water to cities and farms on a 152-mile journey along the east side of the fertile San Joaquin Valley.

Until now.

The Friant-Kern has been crippled by a phenomenon known as subsidence. The canal is sinking as the Valley floor beneath it slowly caves in, brought down by years of groundwater extraction by the region’s farmers.

Man, I absolutely love California but damn there's some weird shite that goes on there.

OK, so you've stated a problem. Now what do you do to solve it?

(08-15-2018 12:00 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  OK, so you've stated a problem. Now what do you do to solve it?

1. Invest all your money in high speed rail
2. Encourage homeless camps and sanctuary cities
3. ????
4. Problem solved!

(#3 is a biatch, no?

Subsidence due to water use is a problem everywhere. Coastal areas will need to invest in desalination plants as aquifers continue to be depleted. Exhibit 1 is Las Vegas. Why invest so many resources for a patch of desert.

(08-15-2018 12:10 PM)miko33 Wrote:  Subsidence due to water use is a problem everywhere. Coastal areas will need to invest in desalination plants as aquifers continue to be depleted. Exhibit 1 is Las Vegas. Why invest so many resources for a patch of desert.

Desalinization actually works well for California. 3 of its 4 major metro areas (San Diego, LA, San Fran) are on the coast and the fourth (Sacramento) actually includes parts that are below sea level, so pumping would not be a huge expense.

(08-15-2018 12:14 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(08-15-2018 12:10 PM)miko33 Wrote:  Subsidence due to water use is a problem everywhere. Coastal areas will need to invest in desalination plants as aquifers continue to be depleted. Exhibit 1 is Las Vegas. Why invest so many resources for a patch of desert.

Desalinization actually works well for California. 3 of its 4 major metro areas (San Diego, LA, San Fran) are on the coast and the fourth (Sacramento) actually includes parts that are below sea level, so pumping would not be a huge expense.

Except they would rather spend their money on Lord Stanley's list as well as for illegal immigrants.........

(08-15-2018 12:20 PM)Crebman Wrote:  

(08-15-2018 12:14 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(08-15-2018 12:10 PM)miko33 Wrote:  Subsidence due to water use is a problem everywhere. Coastal areas will need to invest in desalination plants as aquifers continue to be depleted. Exhibit 1 is Las Vegas. Why invest so many resources for a patch of desert.

Desalinization actually works well for California. 3 of its 4 major metro areas (San Diego, LA, San Fran) are on the coast and the fourth (Sacramento) actually includes parts that are below sea level, so pumping would not be a huge expense.

Except they would rather spend their money on Lord Stanley's list as well as for illegal immigrants.........

XACLY!

how they haven't invested heavily in desalination with their level of taxation is insane....

cali has zero clue why Ike and the I-system was a critical element moving forward.....

(08-15-2018 12:10 PM)miko33 Wrote:  Subsidence due to water use is a problem everywhere. Coastal areas will need to invest in desalination plants as aquifers continue to be depleted. Exhibit 1 is Las Vegas. Why invest so many resources for a patch of desert.

one day, they'll simply end up screwing themselves.....

that's what greed does for land patches that are meaningless.....

right now, they're moving the USD at a rapid pace.....that's why....