A disturbing 78% of Californians in a recent survey said they didn’t know what the Bay Delta was. This strongly implies they also don’t know, depending on where they live, that some or most of their water may well come from the Delta and food they eat has been irrigated by Delta water. Southern [...]
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“Groundwater is being depleted at a rapid clip in virtually of all of the major aquifers in the world’s arid and semiarid regions,” says Jay Famiglietti, a hydrologist. Aquifer water doesn’t replenish quickly either. The California Department of Water Resources warned in a December report that 50% of the state’s aging levees are not up to standard and up to $17 billion is needed in repairs and infrastructure investment. This of course comes at a very bad financial time for California, as it is already suffering from huge [...] Lake Mead bathtub ring The Bureau of Reclamation has requested input from the public to resolve water supply and demand imbalances for the seven states, including California, using Colorado River water. The problem can be easily stated, the solutions not so easily. Using ten year running averages, the bureau shows that demand for Colorado [...] Just fasten a geotextile belt around the iceberg (video), deploy a geotextile skirt to prevent melting, then tow that puppy thousands of miles using “bumps and holes”in the ocean to help out because a tug can’t possible handle the load. Golly, what could possibly go wrong with this? Well. some grumps in the [...] The problem is that copious amounts of water are used in creating most every type of energy. Plus, energy is used to pump the water to the power plants to create energy. But water is becoming scarce. IEEE has a comprehensive mini-website with detailed articles on the coming conflict between water and energy. [...] The corrosion in this country isn’t just in politics, it’s in the infrastructure too, specifically water. Our water infrastructure is aging, leaky, and needs upgrading. Now. But… The sorry state of America’s infrastructure is a hard-core reflection of what is really going on in this increasingly hapless society, whether we choose to acknowledge it [...] “Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over” – Mark Twain Make no mistake, California’s water supply and infrastructure is in perilous condition and needs a major upgrade – sooner rather than later. The Sacramento Delta, which supplies an enormous amount of water throughout California, among other problems, has aging earthen levees, and [...] The solution: water harvesting The problem: The green revolution uses high-yield seeds that require much more water, and pesticides too. And naturally, the World Bank forced farmers to stop growing drought-resistant crops, silly peasants, what do they know. Aquanomics, which covers “the economics of water” finds the major water bill that (finally) passed the legislature to be progress, but “very imperfect” and toothless as is. More on the bill from the SF Chronicle. |  | ||||
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