The state’s environmental fanatics over thirty years ago cancelled the critical tertiary phases of the California Water Project and the federal Central Valley Project. I guess those in the Bay Area whose lives rest on Hetch Hetchy delivered reservoir water deemed reservoirs for all others passé and so 19th century.
The result is that a brilliantly engineered water transfer system — 80% of Californians live where 20% of the state’s rain and snow fall — designed to incrementally expand as population grew, became frozen in amber. We had a wonderful water storage system for 23 million people in 1980. But it proved completely inadequate for the 40 million plus of 2014, who assumed household and drinking water, irrigation supplies, and clean hydroelectric power came out of thin air.
h/t Maz2
It’s Calif. Run by nutty libs.
One of the major reason I left my birth state back in 1995.
Turn off the water supply to San Francisco for a week and they will change their minds.
Canada should help them out as California sends millions of gallons of water here everyday by truck . all in the form of Chardonnay and Tomatoes and lets just call it various and sundry eats.
Just drove I-5 between San Francisco and Los Angeles. The [forced] drought is heartbreaking. Unfortunately the farmers there don’t have the political might to effect any change. 🙁
Elections have consequences.
As a consequence of electing liberal fruits and nuts these last 40 years, California will shortly be returning to its deserted wasteland condition of old.
Liberals will consider this a victory.
And we seem to keep forgetting that Onari-owe is in worse financial shape than Califorinicate.
I wouldn’t care except that the EnviroNazis here take their marching orders from California and whatever water rationing scheme they develop in California will be implemented here too, regardless of the fact that we have plenty of water here.
It comes from the “think Globally, act Locally” horse-shit the Left loves so much.