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When you roll it over the rail lines are on the east side of the central valley is because that's where the farming is because there is water. The west side bei

When you roll it over the rail lines are on the east side of the central valley is because that's where the farming is because there is water. The west side being in a rain shadow. So that's also where all the popultion is as well. You could make an argument that the big mistake was running I5 along the west side of the valley instead of just improving HW99. A tell is 70 years after they built it there is still dick all nothing between Sacramento and LA.

DoreenMichele 6y ago
I'm not really sure I understand anything you are saying. Fresno only gets 11 inches of rain a year and there's a lot of farming around there. Fresno County also has an amazingly rich history of water development, both technologically and in terms of hashing out state laws for water rights. California uses two different and competing standards with different historical roots. They use both the standard of "first come, first served" and also the idea that you can't just completely screw people over down river. Most water in California is shipped in. Fresno County has more water security than most parts of the state and its rich history of water development means that in some years, it is actually raising the local water level while most of the US is draining underground aquifers that will never recover from it, resulting in land subsidence. I considered remaining in Fresno permanently if only because of climate change and the expectation that water is what future wars will be fought over. Fresno has better water security than most of the state, and not due to rain. It's also like closing in on 3am here and maybe I should shut up and get off the internet. (shrug) Edit: Some old comment by me about books I have read about water in Cali that anyone into water in Cali might enjoy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19782650 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19782650

DoreenMichele 6y ago

I'm not really sure I understand anything you are saying. Fresno only gets 11 inches of rain a year and there's a lot of farming around there. Fresno County also has an amazingly rich history of water development, both technologically and in terms of hashing out state laws for water rights. California uses two different and competing standards with different historical roots. They use both the standard of "first come, first served" and also the idea that you can't just completely screw people over down river. Most water in California is shipped in. Fresno County has more water security than most parts of the state and its rich history of water development means that in some years, it is actually raising the local water level while most of the US is draining underground aquifers that will never recover from it, resulting in land subsidence. I considered remaining in Fresno permanently if only because of climate change and the expectation that water is what future wars will be fought over. Fresno has better water security than most of the state, and not due to rain. It's also like closing in on 3am here and maybe I should shut up and get off the internet. (shrug) Edit: Some old comment by me about books I have read about water in Cali that anyone into water in Cali might enjoy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19782650 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19782650