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Like others mentioned the current drought/dry period is how the west has always been. What is an abnormality is the last 150 years and how wet it was. Multiple
by subsubzero 4y ago
Like others mentioned the current drought/dry period is how the west has always been. What is an abnormality is the last 150 years and how wet it was. Multiple scientists are saying the same thing but nobody in politics/media are listening. Given no desalinization plants are being built or efforts made to trap more water runoff expect things to get alot worse. Also expect current CA politicans to blame everything on residents "wasting water".
https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=13274 https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1327...
- gremlinsinc 4y agoI always wondered if there'd be a way to basically create a deeply sloped man-made river system that essentially brings salt water deep inland - say as far as Colorado, and perhaps it can be desalinated naturally setting up some filtration systems along the way to catch some of the salt. Imagine if we had a river as big and wide as the colorado river coming from the pacific ocean and back into the colorado river. It might even change weather systems to bring more rain in the area because there's more water vapor. I'm not a scientist and don't know the specifics on how/if that'd work but it'd be a pretty interesting experiment.
- drewm1980 4y agoThat's kinda what the Dutch did but backwards. Saltwater inland has negative value; it is toxic to most plants.
- hedora 4y agoOk, then why are all the redwoods dying, including ones way over 150 years old?