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> Half the California population is in Los Angeles and below but their water is coming from northern California. And what's not coming from NorCal is coming fr

> Half the California population is in Los Angeles and below but their water is coming from northern California. And what's not coming from NorCal is coming from the Colorado River. > The climate anxiety crowd would like you to think water is 'running out' but the reality is just spectacular mismanagement incompetence. The reality is both. California was able to get away with mismanagement for a long time, but climate change throwing a wrench in the wet/dry cycle means getting away with said mismanagement is decreasingly viable. Aquifers / water tables are dangerously low and getting lower. California has one of the longest coastlines in the US. Droughts could be entirely irrelevant if California extracted its cranium from its rectum and put that coastline to use with desal plants galore.

TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y ago
Don't even need desalination plants; They could use tidal energy to spray seawater into the air, increasing evaporation and rainfall. They could pump seawater to several valleys below sealevel, and naturally desalinate, but they would have to cooperate with other states. And those are just a few of many possibilities.
- zach_garwood 4y ago
  > They could pump seawater to several valleys below sealevel, and naturally desalinate Could you explain how this works? Why does the valley need to be below sea level?
  - TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y ago
    A few valleys eaat of the west coast are below sealevel. They don't have to be, but piping seawater there would save cost as the water level tries to reach equilibrium. Then they just need to let the hot sun do its' work, and occasionally open the valve. The Salton Sea, CA, e.g. is 38m below sealevel. Another reason to use below sealevel may be safety: Not all cracks and ground fissures are known, and pumping in large quantitues of saltwater may have an undesired effect on groundwater. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_on_land_with_elevations_below_sea_level https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_on_land_with_...

TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y ago

Don't even need desalination plants; They could use tidal energy to spray seawater into the air, increasing evaporation and rainfall. They could pump seawater to several valleys below sealevel, and naturally desalinate, but they would have to cooperate with other states. And those are just a few of many possibilities.

zach_garwood 4y ago
> They could pump seawater to several valleys below sealevel, and naturally desalinate Could you explain how this works? Why does the valley need to be below sea level?
- TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y ago
  A few valleys eaat of the west coast are below sealevel. They don't have to be, but piping seawater there would save cost as the water level tries to reach equilibrium. Then they just need to let the hot sun do its' work, and occasionally open the valve. The Salton Sea, CA, e.g. is 38m below sealevel. Another reason to use below sealevel may be safety: Not all cracks and ground fissures are known, and pumping in large quantitues of saltwater may have an undesired effect on groundwater. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_on_land_with_elevations_below_sea_level https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_on_land_with_...