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> "Cheri" > wrote in message
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>> "Cabrito del Bosque" > wrote in message
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>>> On 5/24/2015 10:08 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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>>>> "Paul M. Cook" > wrote in message
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>>>>>>>> I have noticed several people here mention California. We have had
>>>>>>>> a lot
>>>>>>>> of stuff on tv about the lack of water there. We were shown the
>>>>>>>> huge
>>>>>>>> reservoirs with very little water in them. They were showing how
>>>>>>>> people
>>>>>>>> with lush grass and full swimming pools were being demonised.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Is anyone here affected? It sounds very frightening!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Everyone in CA is affected. And since CA grows half the country's
>>>>>>> food,
>>>>>>> half the country is affected as well. My town is ordering a 35%
>>>>>>> cutback
>>>>>>> on water use with fines for offenders. NASA says this is the last
>>>>>>> year we
>>>>>>> will have water in the reservoirs. So next year we should be in
>>>>>>> full
>>>>>>> anarchy mode I expect. Fox News blames it on illegal immigrants.
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>>>>>> So if there will be no water in the reservoirs, where will your water
>>>>>> come from?
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>>>>>
>>>>> Nowhere. That's the problem and that is where we are headed. It
>>>>> could get very ugly.
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>>>> Are there many posters here from California? I haven't heard anyone
>>>> speaking about it. Are you not all very worried?
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>>> I suspect many are worried enough to be stunned to silence.
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>> Especially since they were releasing all tha water from dams a couple of
>> years ago. Idiots.
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> Without water flowing to the sea you get dry rivers and salt water
> polluted deltas. You cannot have an excosystem without flowing water.
> Damning every drop just makes the problem very much worse. A great many
> creatures besides humans need that water, too. And unlike humans they
> cannot do with less.

No one said they should dam every drop, but excess releasing is bad, which
they did admit.

Cheri