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View Poll Results: Do you see the drought curbing down the growth of LA and surrounding regions soon?
Yes 22 46.81%
No 25 53.19%
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Old 08-10-2015, 08:59 PM
 
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The drought in California isn't a new thing, but attention from the news media is now stronger than ever.

Do you believe that the drought's effects and it's negative publicity will slow down the growth of LA and surrounding regions pretty soon?

In comparison to other major regions that is.
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Old 08-10-2015, 09:49 PM
 
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No. Go to google and type El Nino. California will have so much water soon that it may soon be exporting water to your state Cityguy7. Ha .
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Old 08-10-2015, 09:50 PM
 
Location: Downtown LA
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It certainly hasn't yet. People keep moving here.
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Old 08-10-2015, 09:53 PM
 
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LA will actually overtake NY as the biggest Metro region by 2040 - 2050 tops. NY is the past, LA is the future.
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Old 08-11-2015, 01:59 AM
 
Location: Savannah GA
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California will just figure out a way to steal water from other states (and the nation of Mexico) and redirect it for their own use -- just as they've been doing for the past 100 years.
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Old 08-11-2015, 07:33 AM
 
Location: Houston
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I believe that residential use of water is actually a small percentage of water usage. I actually saw in an article, and I will try to find the link and edit this that California uses more water on just its almond crop than all of residential use.

http://www.slate.com/articles/busine...e_a_place.html

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Old 08-11-2015, 08:02 AM
 
Location: MPLS/CHI
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Does this affect California in any way?

https://gma.yahoo.com/three-million-...opstories.html
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Old 08-11-2015, 05:52 PM
 
Location: Glendale, CA
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Does this affect California in any way?

https://gma.yahoo.com/three-million-...opstories.html

Apparently not:

Contaminated water from Colorado river not expected to affect California - LA Times
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Old 08-11-2015, 05:55 PM
 
Location: Springfield, Ohio
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People are still moving to Arizona, Nevada and Texas in droves so I don't see why LA would be any different.
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Old 08-11-2015, 05:55 PM
 
Location: Houston
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No. Texas went through a severe drought in 2011 and it didn't affect population growth. During that time it felt like it would never rain again. 2015 came and it seemed like the rain would never end. Last few weeks the drought seemed to come back again but now while I type this were under a severe thunderstorm warning. So the weather changes all the time. California will go through the same thing and population growth won't be impacted.
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