Comments on: Is the California Drought Over?

By: Wow

Wow — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 19:14:03 +0000

Because you say so?

No.

By: RickA

RickA — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 18:37:14 +0000

Is the drought over?

Yes.

By: johnl

johnl — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 16:36:28 +0000

San Joachim Valley Subsidence, Mendota California circa 1977
http://sierra2thesea.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Screen-shot-2013-03-16-at-6.49.28-AM1.png

By: Brainstorms

Brainstorms — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 16:21:19 +0000

The problem with California’s drought and the resulting impact on its aquifers (a problem shared by most of America’s acquifers, including the Ogallala in the Plains States) is worse than most people realize.

Underground aquifers don’t act like a storage battery for water, unless they’re managed properly to limit pumping.

If an aquifer is over-pumped, the land above can, without the interstitial pressure of groundwater, subside. We have been seeing this in the San Joaquin Valley over the decades — drops of several meters.

This subsidence can reach the point where the collapse of the interstitial spaces underground will no longer admit groundwater — the “water storage battery” can no longer be recharged. Ever — at least not in the time scales while Homo sapiens is on Earth.

It is the nature of Man to destroy his own life support system…

By: BBD

BBD — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 16:06:06 +0000

Dick won’t admit error.

Then he can never again claim to be honest here.

That’s over.

By: Wow

Wow — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 15:50:04 +0000

Psychopaths have a deep seated need to be right. And no admission can be made because that undermines the “inerrant rightness” of their claims, and they’d have to start supporting them, which is more work than they want, and usually impossible anyway.

Dick won’t admit error.

By: BBD

BBD — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 15:47:44 +0000

When are you going to muster up enough honesty to admit your errors RickA?

It’s been a week now and I’m still waiting.

By: RickA

RickA — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 15:36:56 +0000

I read that some are trying to convince CA farmers to allow their fields to be flooded, to recharge the aquifer.

The goal is to try to stop so much melt from just running into the ocean.

I don’t know what the politics of that are – but it seems like a good idea.

Maybe there is a way to direct or pump melt water into aquifers without necessary flooding the entire field?

It reminds me of Dune – which was written by a science fiction author who lived in CA.

By: Brainstorms

Brainstorms — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 15:05:10 +0000

California, as with much of the West, has a long history of badly broken and corrupt water rights laws that are vociferously promulgated in courts to block any effective reforms.

In a word, as Wow puts it, “money”. Sad.

By: Wow

Wow — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 14:45:55 +0000

Money.

How much of the USA’s internal food produce is produced in California? Especially of certain foods.