California Dumps A Trillion
Gallons Of Fresh Water In Ocean – Declares Water Shortage. By Tori McNabb
California
is dumping a trillion gallons of fresh Water in the ocean and according to the
Public Policy Institute of California, a San Francisco-based non-profit,
farmers in California’s San Joaquin Valley region, who account for half the
state’s agricultural output, will need to severely limit their water use if the
State’s groundwater resources are to be conserved.
Who
would declare a water shortage disaster after spending years dumping good,
fresh water into the ocean to protect a non-endangered bait fish?
For
years the southern 1/3 of the beautiful San Joaquin Valley’s farmland has been
turned into a “man-made” dust bowl.
The
water is being allowed to just run off the mountains, through the river system,
through the delta, and out into the ocean. The water is being reserved for the
little Delta Smelt, a three inch bait fish, that isn’t even on the
endangered species list.
California
had a wet November, a moist December, an absolutely drenched January and
February, and so far a fairly watery March. Los Angeles exceeded its average
annual rainfall a month ago, less than halfway into the “water year” (which
runs from October through the following September). The Sierra snowpack is at
more than 150% of average. The state is soaked.
Still,
California acts like it’s in the midst of a drought. As the Governor institutes
water emergency rules, they just let all that water just keep pouring into the
ocean. Unbelievable!
The
I-5 San Joaquin Valley corridor is marked with signs begging Nancy Pelosi to
turn the water on. Sean Hannity hosted a full show from Hanford, CA to
highlight the problem. Phone calls and letters from all over the country have
been sent to try to fix this situation.
Comedian
Paul Rodriguez, co-chair of Latino Water Coalition, crosses the state working
to remove the environmental protection on the Delta smelt.
Representative
Devin Nunes, (CA) describes the situation in the WSJ back in 2009:
Today the San Joaquin
Valley is being transformed into a dust bowl. Hundreds of thousands of acres
are fallow, while almond and plum trees are being left to die in the scorching
sun.
Tens of thousands of
people have been tossed out of work—the town of Mendota alone has an
unemployment rate of about 40%—and the lines for food donations stretch down
streets. The reason? There isn’t enough water to go around this year, and the
Obama administration is drawing up new reasons to divert more of it from farms
and people and into the San Francisco Bay.
Devon Nunes also stated
in an interview along side Paul Rodriguez, “There’s a half a million acres of farmland, it’s bigger than the size
of Rhode Island, that’s now dry because of these fools!”
David Spady reports
that, “California’s man-made water crisis led to $2.2
billion in losses, water rationing, rising food costs, and the destruction of
small family businesses.”
The destruction is
horrific. Businesses lost, property values lost, jobs lost, crop production
lost, food cost increases, just to begin. The Climate Change, Save the
Whale, Hug the Tree, Save the Baitfish crowd consistently uses a false
narrative to to accomplish their political agenda. Now scientists are
predicting a 35 year mega-drought in the West. When does the madness stop?
Environmental and
endangered species laws are being used to force a political agenda, and in the
process, doing severe damage to our country.
A shortage of
construction workers coupled with higher prices for materials used in
construction are driving up costs for San Diego County Water Authority’s
infrastructure and maintenance projects, the agency is warning.
According to a recent report from the Associated General
Contractors of America,
construction employment declined by 1,300 jobs in the San Diego region from
January 2018 to January 2019.
“There are many
large-scale construction projects underway in Southern California, while at the
same time there is a shortage of skilled and unskilled labor, which means
greater competition for those workers,” said Brent Fountain, a principal
engineer with the Water Authority. “In addition, increasing prices for
materials are impacting the costs for both maintenance and capital projects.
“We’ve received fewer
bids at higher bid amounts from contractors for several projects in the past
eight months,” Fountain continued. “The Water Authority generally had more bids
and bid amounts closer to our project cost estimates, from 2014 through 2017.”
Fuel, metal and asphalt
costs increased by double digits as labor costs also continued to rise between
September 2017 and September 2018, according to the Associated General
Contractors of America. Diesel fuel, steel pipe and tube, asphalt paving
mixtures and aluminum products were among the products that contributed to the
larger year-over-year cost increases, according to the AGCA.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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