water and life out of California. Have you read that the entire west coast salmon season has been shut down? Well it has and it's due in a large part to LA sucking water from the entire CA water system (from Shasta down) to continue keeping the LA desert green. Without enough water the salmon won't swim up stream to lay their eggs. Without eggs hatching only 35,000 (of the millions that once came up the river) estimated salmon will return this year to span. The economic impact will be felt in homes all up and down the west coast. Fishermen are out of work, packing companies will shut down, people will lose their homes and way of life.
Recently in a quiet land/water deal 9,000 acres of Yolo County farm land along the Sacramento River was bought. With the water rights that go with it southern California will be able to let this farm land go fallow so they can suck more water away. When will it stop? What will all the LA people do for food when all they have is water? What will we all do when California's economy eventually collapses because LA SUCKS.
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loreal
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Apr 24 @ 7:45PM
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Same thing here in NY...our water goes to NYC!
Sad!
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gunn12fan
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Apr 24 @ 7:57PM
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Sounds like here too When Georgia was going dry the Gov. Perdue wanted to get water piped up from the Gulf of Mexico to Atlanta had that happened we would have no oyster's and lots of fisherman and stuff like that would be out of business
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SunBabe
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Apr 24 @ 8:06PM
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I cannot for the life of me figure out why they didn't build de-sal plants along the coast YEARS ago. It's not because the technology has been lacking. Many "dry" cities and countries have relied on desalination for years now. 
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sweetgypsysoul
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Apr 24 @ 8:09PM
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Soon enough, whether or not the popular vote embraces a less green, greener lifestyle, the choice will not be up to The City of Angels.
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sweetgypsysoul
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Apr 24 @ 8:24PM
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I've been asked in message how I see that happening.
A drought, a political shift, an unfortunate event .. could be any number of things .. eventually there will not be enough to go around and those who feel the need to keep their grass green in climates that require watering because it's not natural to that area will come to grips with their lifestyle of excess.
Water will become the oil of the future. He who controls the water will control the people.
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leprichaun_magic
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Apr 24 @ 8:25PM
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.ah. thats sad...sorry to hear about your water problem there .
In northern Ireland. not long ago-salmon were lost for another reason,,
The huge salmon farm was wiped out ,, by a very big shoal--of Jelly fish..:)
thousands of pounds worth of business was lost ,,,The year before they had supplied salmon for the Queen s Birthday  :(
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530Meliss
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Apr 24 @ 8:31PM
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Then LA will control all of California.
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530Meliss
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Apr 24 @ 8:33PM
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In about one year I'll be ready to go live off the grid. Well, that's as long as people continue to go to the Indian Casino near me because that's what's keeping the price of homes in my area high while everywhere else the price of homes are just crashing. Keep your fingers crossed for me!
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WouldntItBeGr8To
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Apr 24 @ 8:33PM
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argh!
They also get tons of water from Colorado which is going to turn down or off the valve soon because there is not enough water.
Yes, but So. Ca. has so many votes. We have tried to split it into 2 states, North and South, that would be GREAT lol, but it won't happen, they have so much money - tax dollars.
The farmers up here need water like you said and with the loss of all the bees from mysterious deaths, things can't get much worse.
Did you see some of the ideas So. Ca. came up with 
Towing ice bergs from up by the north pole down there!! oh, that was a dozie! That got shut down even before global warming talk came up 
Then they had this plan of taking fresh water from a river in far Northern CA just before it entered the ocean. Then they would pump it out to giant bags (the size of a football field!) off the coast and tow those down to So. Ca.! That got shut down because it would have affected the fish and other creatures...........duh! ya don't mess with mother nature!
But what can we do?
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inxs900
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Apr 24 @ 9:25PM
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Tampa bay Florida has been desalinating their ware supply for around eleven years.
One problem with desalinating is that it takes large amounts of energy as well as a specialised infrastructure to operate and therefore very expensive. Of course one could cancel a flight to the moon by NASA and use this expense on earth where presently water is needed for survival.
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IB4U
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Apr 24 @ 11:11PM
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( Con't)
Experts also say the Colorado River, which provides freshwater to seven Western states, will probably provide less water in coming years as global warming shrinks its flow.
California, like many other states, is pushing conservation as the cheapest alternative, looking to increase its supply of treated wastewater for irrigation and studying desalination, which the state hopes could eventually provide 20 percent of its freshwater.
"The need to reduce water waste and inefficiency is greater now than ever before," said Benjamin Grumbles, assistant administrator for water at the Environmental Protection Agency. "Water efficiency is the wave of the future."
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530Meliss
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Apr 24 @ 11:14PM
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I agree with reusing water. I've been trying to get a tertiary water treatment plant in our community for 20 years. That and encouraging our planning department to allow gray water for yard watering.
Thank you to all of you who've sent comments about this issue.
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WouldntItBeGr8To
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Apr 24 @ 11:38PM
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Save water...shower with a friend 
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beecrazy41wldolphn
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Apr 26 @ 1:34PM
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There was something about salmon in the news today, wasnt payn to much attion ,but think their sending a bunch to the ocean
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SunBabe
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Apr 26 @ 8:28PM
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They've been tearing up the streets to replace out-dated water and sewer lines in my little town for the past couple of years. Nobody wanted to listen to me when I suggested that they run two sets of lines -- one for drinking water, one for "non-potable/outdoor-use" water -- and another set of sewer lines, one for raw sewage (toilets) and one for easily treatable "gray water"...to eventually water gardens, trees, and lawns and wash cars, etc. Separating these kinds of incoming water and waste-water would help in the conservation and recyclng efforts at a much lower expense for the technology and physical plant a terciary system requires. (A compromise, really).
I'd be more than willing to re-plumb my house to accommodate two separate systems...I'm still considering sneaking in a diverter valve and a storage tank to collect washing machine, bath tub, and dishwasher water to use in my yard -- kind of illegal, because I have no way to filter and treat it (certain chemicals can "clog up" the earth)...if I used high phosphate detergent, though, my yard would be lush 
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