How long can California's drought last? (Carlsbad, Mojave: construction, price, lawsuits)

[opossum1]

Drought is awesome
Hope it lasts for hundreds of years.

Giant green lawn in front of my condo complex went brown...just as Mother Nature intended.
It's nice to have a green lawn year-round...but Mother Nature (or god?) just did not intend this for this climate.
One huge benefit is that disgusting lawn-mowers and leaf-blowers are not spewing as much filthy air pollution and noise around this area anymore
Sick society opts to fill the air of entire city with toxic filth from these worthless activities (yep, let's cut grass and blow leaves/cuttings every week...let's poison everyone and make the air disgusting...especially let's poison those illegals we hire to do so, to breathe cancerogens all day...let's fill the air with cancerogens...pour herbicides/pecticides everywhere....and pour water to make it all grow...just to cut it every week!). Sick society is getting what's coming for it!
Hope half of the water is gone eventually!

[NativeOrange]

Originally Posted by sourdough

This says it's filtered….. https://www.yourtahoeplace.com/publi...ter-protection

Actually in that link it literally says:

"The IVGID Public Works department provides its water customers with a safe, palatable water supply that is very close to its pure, natural state. The Public Works water treatment plant is one of a handful of surface water, treatment facilities across the nation that is not required to provide filtration for its drinking water.

IVGID has received an exemption of filtration requirement because of the unique characteristics and extremely high quality of our water source, Lake Tahoe."

[Calix]

Originally Posted by GoldenZephyr

The drought will last shorter than some think, maybe longer than others.

All I know is that the more people panic, the closer we are to "peak drought".

A decade ago "peak oil" was all the rage and by 2015 oil was going to be $300 a barrel and gas $10/gallon. With all the doom and gloom, we are at or nearing "peak drought".

We were at "peak hurricane" during 2005 and since then nothing. They said every year was going to be worse and worse with Katrina storms hitting the US every year, and yet it wasn't, why, because things move in cycles.

It will rain again, probably flooding, heavy wet winter. When? probably sooner than the fear mongers think.

Peak drought!? That's funny, though you may be right, from what I'm reading we may be shifting back to a warm PDO phase and there is a 50/50 chance this winter will be very wet.

Have to say, I've noticed a trend that when ideologues say the sky is falling, they WAY overstate the case. Especially noting the examples you posted. Very clever!

[znlwovuhrjw]

Originally Posted by Calix

Peak drought!? That's funny, though you may be right, from what I'm reading we may be shifting back to a warm PDO phase and there is a 50/50 chance this winter will be very wet.

Have to say, I've noticed a trend that when leftists say the sky is falling, the opposite tends to happen. Especially noting the examples you posted. Very clever!

Maybe the 2002 continuum will end soon.

[Tilt11]

I wonder what Californians think of the celebs there that can afford the weak fines for overuse of water, and many, probably dont make any changes to curb their water use. IMO, anyone who uses more water than they should be during the drought, their names should be made public.

[JGC97]

Made public? And then what? Boycott their movies and television shows? Half of them employ gardeners and don't even know when their sprinklers go on and off.

[Tilt11]

Originally Posted by HereOnMars

Made public? And then what? Boycott their movies and television shows? Half of them employ gardeners and don't even know when their sprinklers go on and off.

Please, ignorance is no excuse. They should be exposed for the hypocrites they are. Same way some claim and act like they're in a war against "global warming", yet pollute more and use more electricity in a year than most of us would in ten years. They're all for certain policies except when it comes to themselves.

If there's a drought going on, the public should have a right to know which people say screw it, ill pay a fine because a fine wont hurt them one bit. Whether it be water or electricity or fuel, these people use a ton of it. All while supporting policies that make it harder on average people.

[SFX]

Originally Posted by Tilt11

... yet pollute more and use more electricity in a year than most of us would in ten years.

More like one month of their life equals my entire life. The hypocrisy and problem of the wealthy using vast resources become obvious when the water runs out.

Golf courses will only be able to run the sprinklers once a day.

[Des-Lab]

It's not that most of the public doesn't know what hypocrites the celebrities and wealthy are. It's more likely that they just don't care. Don't underestimate how much the public will tolerate. You really think they're about to give up their TV show and movie fixes to "make a point"? Not happening.

[SFX]

It's not even the "super wealthy", it's the upper middle class, or just wealthy people. If they have to actually lose out on anything, then they don't feel wealthy anymore. If they can't have green lawns, swimming pools, lush green golf courses and long showers, at any time, they feel poor. And that isn't going to work.

It never has.