Then a stringent urine recycle plan put in place. It all make perfect sense. . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dams_and_reservoirs_in_California

A pipe emerges from dried and cracked earth that used to be the bottom of the Almaden Reservoir on January 28, 2014 in San Jose, California. Now in its third straight year of drought conditions, California is experiencing its driest year on record, dating back 119 years, and reservoirs throughout the state have low water levels. Santa Clara County reservoirs are at 3 percent of capacity or lower.

At 6pm there was quite the lightning display followed by some hail. Then a three hour downpour. It tapered off into a steady rain. I got up to pee at 2am or so and it was still gently raining.

a full reservoir. Be sorta silly to build an empty one, wouldn't it?



https://watershed.ucdavis.edu/myths/water+storage/#1

for rain that may fall on my rooftop. Hopefully in the fall in N. Cal.

El Nino seems to bring in a little more rain, right now in southern Oregon I am watching the rainturn everything a bright green. Yeah the rains will start back up this fall but I think the southwest water table is never coming back because we are just using too much. Live good by using resources up then face the consequences that's where humans are at.

the water for laundry and toilet flushing as well. It's all set to go, city permit and all.

Water is a limited resource and any way to collect a little, especially clean rain is a good thing. Was talking with neighbor yesterday and he was saying he expects to stick a plastic tank in the back of his truck and go to a relatives house to collect water if no major rain falls before late summer.

Those right wingers with their emotional facebook threads crack me up sometimes. I thought you could get arrested for collecting rainwater!

And build those dam dams!

in contact with Governor Moonbeam, Perhaps it is time for the governor to tell them, NO MORE swimming pools



For those who miss the reference, and I realize many will, they used to call Brown Governor Moonbeam the last time around.

(Hint: It has to do with his spirituality)

From the Wikipedia page on Brown;

Other writers and political enemies of the Governor have been using that as a perjorative ever since, in an effort to make him look out of the mainstream.

He studied Buddhism in Japan, and Rondstadt made up the nickname for him as a result.

But when you have hyper religious Christian Right (why it became an insult) doing that to a spiritual man it has a level of both comedy and irony

The Christian Right didn't get a voice for another decade.

The nation follows.

I got hope for the rest of the nation since the CR got kicked here a while ago. The rest of you are starting to

You don't need no steenkin' dams! Reservoirs in every neighborhood in Cali.

What the Beverly Hillbillies used to call "them cement ponds..."

Not by state mandate, but local

They became the early skate parks too.

Who cares if Salmon need them and it could cause damage to the circle of life.

The Republicans will block it by refusing to fund it.

But why would they need a dam to hold up air?

Unless there's a place where they can get a good buy on a bunch of water, they can try to bring down a glacier from the North Pole? Oh wait, I forgot, the glaciers are melting. Electricity needed to make air colder so they wouldn't melt.

Has Fox figured out where they can get the dam water?

I think the Saudis or some country tried to bring down a glacier several years ago, but that's when the glaciers were holding their own.

... reach the ocean these days as a trickle of salty polluted gutter water.

Floods, which are getting rarer and rarer, are a natural feature of riparian environments.

Even if it made "economic" sense to capture more of these flood waters than we do now (it doesn't) they would make a negligible contribution to the overall water supply.

The only solution that makes sense is to remove industrial scale agriculture from certain area. But that would make a few multimillionaires sad. It's okay if thousands of people making barely living wages lose their jobs and have to relocate to other parts of the nation to compete for even worse jobs, but we don't dare displace multimillionaires who became multimillionaires by the gift of government subsidized water.

The largest free flowing river in California is the Cosumnes, which you can be forgiven for never having heard of because it's only 50 miles long and empties into another river you've never heard of.

Congressmen Garamendi and LaMalfa Introduce Water Storage Bill for Sites Reservoir

Mar 27, 2014

WASHINGTON, DC – This week, Congressmen John Garamendi (D-CA-03) and Doug LaMalfa (R-CA-01) officially introduced H.R. 4300, the Sacramento Valley Water Storage and Restoration Act of 2014. The bill would authorize construction of Sites Reservoir in Colusa County, California upon completion of the feasibility study. The bill was announced last week at a press conference in Maxwell. Click here to read a summary of the legislation and click here to read the full text. Click here for videos, editorials, and news coverage of the LaMalfa-Garamendi Sites proposal.

“Construction of Sites Reservoir would bring California one major step closer to a drought-proof water system. It has support across the aisle and across the state. I will continue to work with Doug and local stakeholders to move this project across the finish line,” said Congressman Garamendi, a former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Interior.

“We know that Sites Reservoir is needed to allow our California’s economy to continue to grow, to ensure that our cities have a secure water supply and to keep our agricultural sector strong. This project’s merits are recognized by lawmakers of both parties, water suppliers, cities, agriculture and environmental groups, and our drought would not be as dire had it already been built,” said Congressman LaMalfa.

The bill sets a deadline for the completion of the feasibility study and if deemed feasible, authorizes construction of the storage reservoir. The bill also creates a process by which a non-federal sponsor could develop the project. Once completed, Sites Reservoir would provide 1.9 million acre feet of water storage capacity for California and would help residents prepare for droughts like the one currently hurting the state.

Congressman LaMalfa is the lead sponsor and Congressman Garamendi is the original co-sponsor of the legislation. The Congressmen jointly developed the bill with local stakeholders, primarily the Sites Joint Powers Authority (JPA), a regional consortium of local water agencies and counties who joined together in 2010 to advocate for the project.

The project promotes state goals of regional self-sufficiency in water use. Storage is a key component of Congressman Garamendi’s "Water Plan for All of California," which can be read at www.garamendi.house.gov/water.

http://garamendi.house.gov/press-release/lamalfa-garamendi-introduce-legislation-build-sites-reservoir-store-water-millions

The water is ONLY drawn off the Sacramento river during flood stages when the water normally shoots down the river and through the delta like shit through a goose. The concerns about salinity in the delta are unfounded as saltwater intrusion only happens during the dry season. Conservationists, farmers, and citizens are realizing it's a win, win, win plan.

1937 is about one year after the opening of Boulder Dam.

At around 1,050 ft they will have to shutoff hydroelectric generation.

It's going to get rather dicey if Lake Mead goes dry.

We will fight it tooth and nail and stop it.

invariably wait to trot out their shit until you are trapped and cannot escape from them.

My condolences.