It's A Freaking Desert

[crank]

Southern California, I used to live there 40-something years ago. I couldn't believe how much water they used to, well, water stuff. Everything was green. I mean sprinklers in the highway dividers. You drove south of the border Into Mexico and suddenly it was dry and brown. I thought back then - this is nuts. It's not sustainable. Virtually all the water was coming down the Aqueduct from the Sierras.

I guess it's gonna go back to brown.

End rant.

 

[dreadnut]

Not to worry - brown grass isn't dead, just dormant.

 

[davismanLV]

Plus it used to rain there more. I don't know why, but growing up in the San Fernando Valley and Thousand Oaks in Ventura County, we had rain. In the spring, in the fall, in the winter. Rain. Now there's none.

 

[7GuildsandanSG]

I live there. It will be Dune.

 

[chazmo]

I live there. It will be Dune.

Get the Spice rights!

 

[GGJaguar]

I'd rather have dessert than desert.

 

[Guildedagain]

It's not real but in time will be like moving 2 states south, whatever that means to you.

 

[Boneman]

Yup, its steadily getting hotter and drier here for sure. I also agree that watering grass and all other kinds of trees in the desert is ridiculous when you know the water supply is precious. No wonder earlier this week they just announced they're calling on everyone in the state to conserve water because the resevoirs are drying up and prospects for them being replenished are slim to none. Coupled with people keep moving out here in droves and tapping into the water system, its time to do some drastic infrastructure projects. Can't keep people from moving in, but as a country, if we can build a pipeline for oil from Canada to the gulf of Mexico, why can't we build a pipeline for water from the northeast to the southwest? I fact, it'd just be a larger scale of what they did to get water to So Cal to begin with. My two cents

 

[dreadnut]

As soon as it stops snowing here...

 

[davismanLV]

I'd rather have dessert than desert.

I have both! Strawberry creme pie and it's 85 outside and 5% RH. And windy as hell.

 

[7GuildsandanSG]

Get the Spice rights!

I always thought Las Vegas is what a theme park of Earth would be on some other planet.

 

[davismanLV]

I always thought Las Vegas is what a theme park of Earth would be on some other planet.

It's like another planet in many ways, in spots at least. The rest is just a silly big town in the desert. With too many people. And not enough water.

 

[7GuildsandanSG]

Yup, its steadily getting hotter and drier here for sure. I also agree that watering grass and all other kinds of trees in the desert is ridiculous when you know the water supply is precious. No wonder earlier this week they just announced they're calling on everyone in the state to conserve water because the resevoirs are drying up and prospects for them being replenished are slim to none. Coupled with people keep moving out here in droves and tapping into the water system, its time to do some drastic infrastructure projects. Can't keep people from moving in, but as a country, if we can build a pipeline for oil from Canada to the gulf of Mexico, why can't we build a pipeline for water from the northeast to the southwest? I fact, it'd just be a larger scale of what they did to get water to So Cal to begin with. My two cents

I've read that the natural water in LA can support a city of 250,000 people. There are about 4 million people in LA and over 10 million in LA county. We must learn to live like the Fremen of Dune if we're going to survive here.

 

[7GuildsandanSG]

Send guitar humidifiers!!!

 

[gjmalcyon]

We are currently perambulating around the American Southwest, and happened to be at Glen Canyon Dam yesterday. Lake Powell is below 24% of full pool - the maximum the reservoir can hold. In other words, Lake Powell is more than 75% empty. Another 20 feet of drop and they have to turn off the electricity generating turbines.

We heard from three different Diné (Navajo) guides in three different places that their cultural memory says the world is hotter and drier than it was.

 

[Midnight Toker]

It's mindboggling to think that one of the richest wildlife estuaries on the planet, where tens of millions of migrating birds once nested, covering two million acres of wetlands where the mighty Colorado river once flowed into and fed the Sea of Cortez, where 1/3 of the world's sea mammals happen to live.....is now a complete barren desert thanks to millions of people who actually DO live in a desert wanting their yard to look like a friggin golf course.

 

[davismanLV]

At least they've gotten real with planting and lawns here. No lawns. It's against the law. Desert scape is rock with a few trees and stuff that doesn't require much water. They need to do that in California as well. There's just too many people on this poor planet. Resources are exhausted.

 

[Midnight Toker]

At least they've gotten real with planting and lawns here. No lawns. It's against the law. Desert scape is rock with a few trees and stuff that doesn't require much water. They need to do that in California as well. There's just too many people on this poor planet. Resources are exhausted.

Indeed. But it's far too little, far too late. There shouldn't be a single golf course where grass doesn't naturally grow.

Why the Colorado River Doesn't Meet the Sea

To the Last Drop

www.counterpunch.org

 

[davismanLV]

Yeah, that's sad that we have golf courses here. And the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs on down to past Indio) in CA is just RIFE with golf courses!! In the desert, mind you! The hand of man continues to wreak havoc on the planet. So sad....

 

[Guildedagain]

why can't we build a pipeline for water from the northeast to the southwest?

Sorry, the water belongs to Nestle.