The state water board is voting later this morning on new water restrictions that could impact thousands of farmers. If passed, the emergency regulations would restrict anyone from diverting water out of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers and their tributaries.
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Hope Y'all like rice.
ReplyDeleteAre they going to restrict water to all of the housing developments going up all over the northern part of the state. Noo.
They're building a yuuge development basically right next to Sac international airport.
Next come the noise complaints, right?
but not golf courses............
ReplyDeleteCan't let those Delta Smelt get thirsty either...
DeleteAH NO... The #2 Rice Growing area in America is THAT Area of California.
ReplyDeleteAlso prime Tomatoes, fruit and frozen-canned veggies area. Used to drive Reefer Truck there years ago.
Going to buy and set aside MOAR Rice and canned veggies THIS Weekend. Prices AND Availability may get as sporty as ammo. Just saying.
Even if I am wrong (chuckling) I can *Still* eat them over the next few years.
Do you THINK food prices are going Down friends?
I wonder how much 22 I can trade for a bag of River Rice next year or so.. Maybe some nails or deck screws? In the fall of the Soviet Union a woman could be willingly be had for a can of Soviet style Spam to feed her family. Personally I'd not do that as it makes you too KNIFE close to a desperate person. NOT a good idea (tm).
In that case, not one drop of water in the rivers reaches the bay.
ReplyDeleteI was under the impression that all surface water delivery to california farmers had already been stopped.
ReplyDeleteTHey should really try cutting all the river water off from the citiots and suburbanites. Bet they would save a lot more water that way,
ReplyDeleteCitiots have more votes per square mile than farmers
DeleteBut the snail darter and other things will still get their water.....
ReplyDeleteSnail Darters were Jimmy Carter's excuse for delaying the Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River.
DeleteYou must be thinking of the Delta Smelt.
Never take sides against The Family, Fredo.
Delete- A group of legitimate Snail Darter businessmen
Any word on the snail darters?
ReplyDeleteAround here, I know that some farmers have been paid by the feds to turn their unharvested crops over into the dirt. Mostly I have heard this in reference to corn (which is used to feed humans, feed livestock, and make ethanol for gasoline). I suspect that a manufactured food crisis is in the making.
ReplyDeleteMandated electric cars that will only go for a hundred or two hundred miles before they need a charge. "Renewable" energy that fails as the sun goes down or the winds die. Curtailed production of natural gas, petroleum, coal, and other minerals. Fortification of governmental enclaves and encouraging the rise of crime thru lax enforcement and opening our borders to all manner of miscreants and criminals.
I am not as optimistic as I was once was. I wanted to be left alone in my dotage. Damn, I sounds like a profit of doom and gloom.
Isn’t most of California a desert?
ReplyDeleteNot at all. The climate is Mediterranean - dry during the summer, wet in the winter. Back in the 1800s before they built dams, the San Joaquin Valley was a marsh, even has its own species of elk. Then the northern third of the State is heavily forested with redwood and douglas fir.
DeleteThe only true desert in California is the southern third.
Forming the eastern boundary of California, the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain range act as a 'drop zone' for humid winds from the Pacific ocean.
DeleteAs the moving air hits the mountains, it is forced up.
The heavier moisture falls to the ground, resulting in a traditional snow-pack (in 'good' years) of many dozens of feet.
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Just north of famous Yosemite Valley is the nearly-blockaded Hetch Hetchy Valley.
We know about because we came into the valley by avoiding the roads, mule-packing all over this area with the eventual founders of BackCountry Horsemen.
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The river forming beautiful Hetch Hetchy Valley is completely diverted to frisco [spit]... none of that snow-pack reaches the valley and the farms... or the Delta.
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In frisco [spit], that wonderful clean mountain water is used once to flush toilets, then is piped out to sea.
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Growing-up in the 1950s California mountains, our family has photographs of driving Highway 395... on roads through snow higher than the telephone poles.
Kalifukinornia - you can have your choice; fish, or water to grow food. According to the environazi groupthink, they are all endangered so you can't catch them. So apparently you can now watch the fish swim while starving to death. Nice choice !
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