Plenty of rain so no hysteria in the media on the "climate change" induced drought

[LuvSouthOC]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

Agreed, definitely, w/increasing capacity, as well as decreasing consumption. Redding doesn't really have the option to do desal, though.

Ok, so we agree. A third element is that California simply cannot sustain more population growth given our water situation. Any leader of California should push the Federal government on immigration and demand that California's fragile ecosystem be considered together with its water limitations. California should be the first state to tell all, "sorry, no more". Hawaii should follow.

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by LuvSouthOC

Ok, so we agree. A third element is that California simply cannot sustain more population growth given our water situation. Any leader of California should push the Federal government on immigration and demand that California's fragile ecosystem be considered together with its water limitations. California should be the first state to tell all, "sorry, no more". Hawaii should follow.

Well, this is a whole other issue, deserving of its own thread. I don't think the US in general can handle more immigration. I've been concerned about that for decades. Aside from the H1B visa issue, there's a multiplicity of legal immigration programs that should be called into question, IMO, not to mention illegal immigration.But I think this complex topic is beyond the scope of this particular thread.

[LuvSouthOC]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

Well, this is a whole other issue, deserving of its own thread. I don't think the US in general can handle more immigration. I've been concerned about that for decades. Aside from the H1B visa issue, there's a multiplicity of legal immigration programs that should be called into question, IMO, not to mention illegal immigration.But I think this complex topic is beyond the scope of this particular thread.

Fair enough.

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

lol. We really need a "sarcasm" emoticon. I thought it was obvious...

No, it wasn't; sorry I misunderstood you (since there are so many who actually believe this (especially on this thread).

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by LuvSouthOC

Funny that we are not hearing much about our current drought situation. Still, we notice storm after storm in NorCal.

But regressives want us to mellow-yellow our toilets and...

Did you think that the drought would just disappear for good because of one season's rainfall?

California adopts permanent water conservation rules | The Sacramento Bee

[SportyandMisty]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

Not sure what this had to do with Democrats.

Californians Are Struggling to Pay for Rising Water Rates: https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/art...ng-water-rates

Water Rates | California Water Association

And yet there is a line of cars at Charbucks waiting to pay 3 bucks for a cup of hot water colored with coffee grounds...

[CA4Now]

"Even in times of drought, California’s natural and human-made arteries run with the nation’s cleanest, most accessible water. So fundamental is the stuff to the state’s identity and to its residents’ daily lives that California law recognizes a human right to “safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water adequate for human consumption, cooking, and sanitary purposes.”

Yet the taps in hundreds of communities produce only toxic brown fluid because years of environmental degradation have contaminated parts of the water table, and because extreme poverty has blocked residents and their leaders from upgrading their water infrastructure..."

California, the world's fifth-largest economy, has a Third World drinking water problem

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

Well, this is a whole other issue, deserving of its own thread. I don't think the US in general can handle more immigration. I've been concerned about that for decades. Aside from the H1B visa issue, there's a multiplicity of legal immigration programs that should be called into question, IMO, not to mention illegal immigration.But I think this complex topic is beyond the scope of this particular thread.

Don't forget one other immigration problem, chain migration.