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originally posted by: NOrrTH
originally posted by: dreamingawake
Columbia river seriously? The snow packs that feed that river were very low this year. States up here are already under a drought watch.
Compare that to last year when the snowpack for the Lower Yakima was at 113 percent of normal.
No snowpack this year means no melting snow to replenish rivers and streams.
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The Columbia River is the answer to California's water problems for the long term. It is an enormous river and isn't going anywhere anytime soon. All they need to do is have the intake close to the mouth (Oregon says they have no problem with that) and yes, pipe it to Lake Shasta.
originally posted by: blacktie
a reply to: dreamingawake
change is happening all around the country seems like
however when the weather news is on tv it's almost 'always' raining around washington state
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But across Eastern Washington, many forests are unhealthy, choked with underbrush, at risk of extreme fire and disease, and less able to store snow pack and water. Forest restoration will take on increased importance if, as scientists predict, we begin to experience less snow pack and more rain in the mountains. Healthy, restored forests are much better able to capture and contain the increased rain than forest damaged by overuse or poor conservation practices.
originally posted by: intrptr
originally posted by: Chrisfishenstein
a reply to: NOrrTH
It rains in most of the rest of the USA....Why is getting rain a difficult thing for a state? Oh I know, the work it would take to leave tanks in other areas nearby to collect rain would just be overwhelming….
These 'tanks' are the reservoirs. The capacity and number of which aren't growing. The number of dams and reservoirs is fixed and they aren't building any new ones.
The problem has arisen not because there isn't run off from the Sierras anymore, but because the farming is so intense these days the water is grabbed up and never makes it to the reservoirs.
In fact they are taking to tapping aquifers, surely a bad sign for the future of Californias water supply.
Mega farming is causing the drought, not the citizens washing their cars and watering their gardens. They make it sound like that but its cover for the real culprits.
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originally posted by: ChiefD
They should do what Australia wound up having to do: Build desalinization plants. It worked there. Why couldn't it work in California?
Maybe it's time to close California and resettle the population
originally posted by: Jansy
originally posted by: intrptr
originally posted by: Chrisfishenstein
a reply to: NOrrTH
It rains in most of the rest of the USA....Why is getting rain a difficult thing for a state? Oh I know, the work it would take to leave tanks in other areas nearby to collect rain would just be overwhelming….
These 'tanks' are the reservoirs. The capacity and number of which aren't growing. The number of dams and reservoirs is fixed and they aren't building any new ones.
The problem has arisen not because there isn't run off from the Sierras anymore, but because the farming is so intense these days the water is grabbed up and never makes it to the reservoirs.
In fact they are taking to tapping aquifers, surely a bad sign for the future of Californias water supply.
Mega farming is causing the drought, not the citizens washing their cars and watering their gardens. They make it sound like that but its cover for the real culprits.
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No one starves if swimming pools are dry or your car doesn't get washed....but I'm pretty sure you like to eat regularly. So if mega farming is the problem...let's all just start fasting...shall we?
it is in constant supply and would be able to cure a lot of these issues....But who am I?