Get Ready for Water Rationing AZ

[Packard fan]

Originally Posted by LordBalfor

Why do you think California is not building desalinization plants?
They have a few already, with a whole chain of them likely to go in soon.
The biggest issue that's been holding it back is that such water is expensive to produce - roughly twice the cost of other sources. Now that those other sources are drying up though, California will no doubt bite the bullet and spend the money to get it done.

Nation's largest ocean desalination plant goes up near San Diego; Future of the California coast? - San Jose Mercury News

Ken

IMHO many people WOULD pay 2 times as much for water IF they didn't have to deal with rationing especially with more and more water conservation with low flow shower heads, toilets and so on so the monthly bill wouldn't be all that much higher than now.

[Wally Sconce]

oh my what will Eco Hypocrites like Leo Dicaprio do?

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[R_Cowgirl]

Originally Posted by Ponderosa

Arizona and California are as different as day and night when it comes to water resources planning. Arizona has been managing its water use and planning for drought since at least the passage of the Groundwater Management act in 1980. Every single city in AZ,state government, and irrigation districts have drought management plans as required by law. We have 35 years of planning and engineering to deal with water scarcity. All the major water users know the drill. We are not facing any shortages at this time and if and when we do, we will have an orderly method of dealing with them that is already in place.

I agree with Ponderosa. I know some of the engineers and this is on their minds every day. It's not like they are going to wake up one morning and say, "Hey - where did that desert come from! OMG!"

Originally Posted by GeneR

There was a time when Californians (I was born and lived most of my life there) were forward thinking. There was a can-do attitude that saw the Golden State as a place where millions of people wanted to live and agriculture was king. That all came to a halt starting in the 1970's when coastal elites squelched the state's century long commitment to building dams, reservoirs and canals.

"Not content with preventing construction of new water infrastructure, environmentalists reverse-engineered existing projects to divert precious water away from agriculture, privileging the needs of fish over the needs of people. Then they alleged that global warming, not their own foolish policies, had caused the current crisis."-----Victor Hansen, The Great Valley of California.

Agree here, too. I lived in California during college. It's where I first became aware of water conservation and recycling. In the 60's and early 70's everyone seemed to be on top of it. Even right down to, "Turn off your faucet while brushing your teeth!!" type ads on TV. The eco-terrorists have gone overboard and thrown out common sense and balance. When they rationed water in agricultural lands over the rights of the fish, that was just weird and short sighted California To Ease Water Restrictions For Farmers As Drought Continues

But if you go do a search on "California drought water rationing" you will see many declarations about it over the past 5 years or so. Interesting how so many headlines in different years say the same thing, "First time ever drought restrictions!" I seem to remember seeing those same headlines 40 years ago, too.

Here's the page for the drought monitor
United States Drought Monitor > Home

Thank God for the rain these past 3 days. The trees were starting to beg dogs to mark them

In other news - Dubai has opened the largest desalinization plant in the UAE
Dubai opens UAE’s largest desalination plant - WaterWorld

Dubai’s Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has opened its ‘M Station’ in Jebel Ali that has a generation capacity of 2,060 MW and can produce 140 million imperial gallons (MIG) of desalinated water per day.

Maybe California can hire them...