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- Let see California is on the cost and there is millions of gallons of sea water there. The US Navy can make millions of gallons of drinking water out of sea water and they do it every day. Why not get the Navy?s technology and build a water conversion plant out in the ocean. The US Navy does it every day on ships that are ran by nuclear power that last 30 years or longer. So why can't California do this? One aircraft carrier can produce enough water for the city of San Francisco. So why not use this technology to produce water up and down the cost of California. There would be no shortage of water and it would be very cost effect. The product could be sold to the users and could be self supporting. WHAT AN IDEA. You could fill the reservoirs that they now have and us the same distribution system in place. This would be very cost effective.
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- Let see California is on the cost and there is millions of gallons of sea water there. The US Navy can make millions of gallons of drinking water out of sea water and they do it every day. Why not get the Navy?s technology and build a water conversion plant out in the ocean. The US Navy does it every day on ships that are ran by nuclear power that last 30 years or longer. So why can't California do this? One aircraft carrier can produce enough water for the city of San Francisco. So why not use this technology to produce water up and down the cost of California. There would be no shortage of water and it would be very cost effect. The product could be sold to the users and could be self supporting. WHAT AN IDEA. You could fill the reservoirs that they now have and us the same distribution system in place. This would be very cost effective.
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- How do you explain 150-years of CA history in a 15-minute news segment, or the longer history of this great nation?; you can't! The 60-minutes people did a good job presenting a fair introduction to a very complicated topic. Governor Schwarzenegger is passionate in his mission to help his friends, State, and Country. He is to be commended for his passion. I believe that the latest water package legislation he signed on November 4 will now accelerate the ?water grab? that has been underway for at least 100-years. I am confident that ?solutions? exists, as the Governor proclaimed that will allow all water demands in the State to be met, but this package is too focused on ?methods of the past? to be successful today. Previous legislators have suggested and tried to mandate the ?real solution? but the leadership of both State and Federal administrations to date have failed to implement incentives to encourage regional self-sufficiency. If regions of the State are faced with the dilemma of providing their own supplies or fade-away; leaders will find the solutions. Water resource think-tanks and the residents of CA have a lot to learn about this interesting topic. I have been a water resources professional since 1983, and feel as if I am just beginning to understand the dynamics of this topic. I am optimistic that the Bond Act will fail in November, and force the water community back to the table to discuss some ?real solutions?. President Obama?s administration (which is made-up by nearly all the same ?workers? of President Bush?s administration) has been helpful to the State on this topic. What I would ask all American?s to consider is that the CA water supply issue is more like solving a ?rubrics cube? than an Engineering or Science problem. Water doesn?t flow downhill; it flows to where the money is, and those who believe anything else are fooling themselves. Stay tuned to this interesting story and thank you CBS for exposing this topic to your viewers.
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- In the natural world, when an ecosystem cannot support the life there, the life has two options, move on to better places or die out!!!! There are no more "better places" to move, so guess what the option is???????
We live in a natural world with natural laws. We cannot sustain this population growth. The human plague needs to stop spreading. - Reply to this comment
- Conservation isn't a solution. Neither is forcing people to not have kids.
You're the one who sounds like some sort of 'Reich", arguing that other people ("inferior" peoples no less) don't have the right to breed. Who are you to judge who does and does not have the right to reproduce? Obviously you are a disciple of Margaret Sanger, who argued that "inferior" people should be barred from reproducing, even put into (ahem) camps.....do a google search to look up the US's nasty little early 20th century involvement with involuntary sterilization to see how THAT worked out.
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cidaia, nobody I know of said anything about forcing people to not have kids or determining who has the right to breed. My argument is, we need to stop rewarding people for having multiple kids. Possibly tax them. The mass consumption of resources has become a burden on society. - Reply to this comment
- "Water is in short supply. You don't have to go to Africa or the Middle East to see how much the planet is running dry".
Actually misleading. The planet has as much water today as it did 10, 50, 100, 1000 or 5000 years ago. - Reply to this comment
- California is a state with 38 million people that cannot support 38 million people........there are a lot of states that have more people than they can support........consider this solution.....birth control........
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- 60 minutes did a pretty good job on this story. It's too bad they didn't have enough time to focus on the fact that Interior Secretary Salazar and his henchman Undersecretary Hayes is only giving lip service to this problem. The Obama administration recently came out with a policy paper on California water but it only skirts around the edges of this problem. They could turn the pumps back on to supply Los Angeles and the San Joaquin Valley and alleviate this problem if they wanted to do so.
This past year wasn't a drought year in California. See the plots at:
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/products/PLOT_ESI.2010.pdf
and
http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/products/PLOT_FSI.2010.pdf
The water shortages are because the Federal fish agencies using the Endangered Species Act throttled back the pumps so much that they created a regulatory drought. Unfortunately, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Policy Committee Chairman George Miller have actively led the Democrats to make partisan votes to prevent the water from being turned back on, even temporarily. See some votes:
http://www.youtube.com/user/RepDevinNunes#p/u/23/yKPG6J6MPP8
and
http://www.youtube.com/user/RepDevinNunes#p/u/33/75jk5ZSqmAg
and
http://www.youtube.com/user/RepDevinNunes#p/u/14/mvK-dUQzF4Y
and
http://www.youtube.com/user/RepDevinNunes#p/u/12/3sYcp5yqeTU
California needs relief now so it can continue to provide fruits and vegetables to the world. It isn't good strategic policy for us to outsource our food supply to the Chineese. Please call your congressional representatives and tell them to stop listening to the Democratic leadership on this issue. It is only partisan because they are listening to Rep. George Miller and he made it that way.
What a way to run a country. - Reply to this comment
- California and the rest of the US ignore the root to its water problems. The root is California has a population larger than it can sustain. The once proud Sacramento river is nothing more than a garden hoses trickle. California is buying water from Colorado. And was planning to pipe the Great Lakes into the state until environmentally conscious lawmakers stopped it.
California is all about overindulgence and that includes the little water that comes from that state. - Reply to this comment
- I think that building and development on deserts was pretty stupid having to pipe water 100's of miles to have water, why not built where the water was. DUH!
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