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'Will California soon fill its prisons with "water criminals?" If a cop drives by a yard where two people are standing around, and one of them is smoking a joint while the other is watering his yard, guess which one will be arrested?
West Texas has long been a "water police state". I can only water my lawn on Tuesdays, Thursdays, or Saturdays - before 10am or after 6pm. It's not a left/right issue.
Yup. Are you trying to argue that desalination isn't expensive?
No, I'll redirect you to my post:
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Expensive?
Are you consuming the right-wing LIES, that somehow we cannot "afford" to cultivate fresh water for our citizens? Where do you think this money comes form?
How is it that the wealthiest monetarily sovereign government cannot "afford" the technology to desalinate the world's largest pond, but can "afford" to wage countless wars? How is it that "cost" is the common excuse to refuse to solve any problems that serve the interest of the general population?
You've been duped.
My question will stand. How can the wealthiest state in the wealthiest nation bordered by the largest water supply on the planet possibly have such a dire water shortage?
My solutions don't subscribe to a particular ideology. My solutions are common sense.
Explain to me why a country which produces an infinite amount of its own currency, with the technology to desalinate and irrigate water, has severe water shortages in certain regions?
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Originally Posted by middle-aged mom
It's amazing what a country of 8 million, with a land mass less than NJ, can achieve when it does not fund/finance other countries and instead receives funding from the US government and evangelical interests. That income tax and an 18% VAT is substantially higher than in the US helps, too.
Let's add this to the list of Universal Healthcare including abortion and birth control and very low cost university education for those who earn it.
We should. It really is that simple. Let's trade our military industrial complex for Universal Health Care, tuition-free universities, and clean drinking water. I'm all for it!!!!
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California isn't the only place with this problem.
Atlanta also has a severe water shortage. Several years ago some in GA state gov't were claiming that, according to a few 200 year old maps, parts of Chattanooga were actually in GA which included a portion of the Tenn River and therefore GA had access rights to the water. But that went nowhere fast.
I've read that parts of Texas also has severe drought conditions. And there are other geographic areas as well. This is only going to get worse.
Like I said, California is sitting next to the largest body of water on planet earth.
This along with a multitude of other reasons is why I do not understand the magnetic attraction to California.
It's more beautiful than where you live. Do you have ocean, beaches, mountains, Sequoia forests, deserts along with a population of women so beautiful that a 5 In Cali is a 10 where you live.
You have none of that.
Oh...their weather in January is better than yours in July.
Don't get mad...you asked.
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