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CA farmers sucking Central Valley dry
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:06 pm
by dbackjon
http://www.fresnobee.com/1100/story/1748159.html
NASA satellites are revealing what many in the San Joaquin Valley already know: The region’s underground water table is being depleted faster than it is being replenished.
A report released today says the San Joaquin and Sacramento river watersheds combined have in the last six years lost nearly enough water to fill Lake Mead, the gigantic reservoir on the Colorado River .
The NASA findings were presented today to the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco .
Re: CA farmers sucking Central Valley dry
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:40 pm
by AZGrizFan
Enter T-Man....5....4....3...2....1....
Re: CA farmers sucking Central Valley dry
Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:21 pm
by Chizzang
AZGrizFan wrote:Enter T-Man....5....4....3...2....1....

You entertain me...
Re: CA farmers sucking Central Valley dry
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:03 am
by SuperHornet
It's not the farmers, Jon, regardless of what that fishwrap said. It's LA and EBMUD stealing our water. Especially EBMUD given that the blinking Peripheral Canal doesn't exist yet.
Re: CA farmers sucking Central Valley dry
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:34 am
by Gil Dobie
From the article below the title of the thread should read CA Farmers, Cities and Industry sucking Central Valley dry.
The volume pumped from underground for agriculture, cities and industry is "not sustainable if current trends continue,"
Re: CA farmers sucking Central Valley dry
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:53 am
by CitadelGrad
That's nothing compared to the sucking that goes on in the San Fernando Valley.
Re: CA farmers sucking Central Valley dry
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:25 am
by AZGrizFan
Gil Dobie wrote:From the article below the title of the thread should read CA Farmers, Cities and Industry sucking Central Valley dry.
The volume pumped from underground for agriculture, cities and industry is "not sustainable if current trends continue,"
True, but adding "cities and industry" to the thread title wouldn't get T-Man to come out of his bomb shelter.

Re: CA farmers sucking Central Valley dry
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:55 am
by dbackjon
Re: CA farmers sucking Central Valley dry
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 9:34 am
by hank scorpio
CitadelGrad wrote:That's nothing compared to the sucking that goes on in the San Fernando Valley.

Re: CA farmers sucking Central Valley dry
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 9:41 am
by Appaholic
How dare you? It's not industry, cities or the farms that's sucking the water table dry, it's environmentalists who won't let us develop our resources to benefit humans. One day, our children will ask us...
"Daddy, why do environmentalists hate God & why didn't your generation annihlate them like the loathsome wolves they are??"
Jon, one day in the future you'll wonder why there is no farming industry in the SW....you & your envirnmental, socialist, homo friends can blame the EPA, but it will be too late.....
Re: CA farmers sucking Central Valley dry
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 9:43 am
by travelinman67
CitadelGrad wrote:That's nothing compared to the sucking that goes on in the San Francisco..
Fixed.

Re: CA farmers sucking Central Valley dry
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 9:44 am
by Appaholic
How's that for a TMan impression?
Re: CA farmers sucking Central Valley dry
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 9:45 am
by Appaholic
travelinman67 wrote:CitadelGrad wrote:That's nothing compared to the sucking that goes on in the San Francisco..
Fixed.

TMAn! Good to see you....expect a drunk dial from Chatty this Thursday/Friday.....
Re: CA farmers sucking Central Valley dry
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 9:50 am
by travelinman67
Appaholic wrote:travelinman67 wrote:
Fixed.

TMAn! Good to see you....expect a drunk dial from Chatty this Thursday/Friday.....
Sorry...gotta work...and attend 3 Xmas parties.
...I'll save it for this weekend.
Re: CA farmers sucking Central Valley dry
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:03 am
by kalm
Appaholic wrote:How dare you? It's not industry, cities or the farms that's sucking the water table dry, it's environmentalists who won't let us develop our resources to benefit humans. One day, our children will ask us...
"Daddy, why do environmentalists hate God & why didn't your generation annihlate them like the loathsome wolves they are??"
Jon, one day in the future you'll wonder why there is no farming industry in the SW....you & your envirnmental, socialist, homo friends can blame the EPA, but it will be too late.....
Hey listen pal, if God hadn't wanted us to farm the desert, he wouldn't have invented the Colorado River.

Re: CA farmers sucking Central Valley dry
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:09 am
by Appaholic
kalm wrote:Appaholic wrote:How dare you? It's not industry, cities or the farms that's sucking the water table dry, it's environmentalists who won't let us develop our resources to benefit humans. One day, our children will ask us...
"Daddy, why do environmentalists hate God & why didn't your generation annihlate them like the loathsome wolves they are??"
Jon, one day in the future you'll wonder why there is no farming industry in the SW....you & your envirnmental, socialist, homo friends can blame the EPA, but it will be too late.....
Hey listen pal, if God hadn't wanted us to farm the desert, he wouldn't have invented the Colorado River.

...or aquifers...

Re: CA farmers sucking Central Valley dry
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 1:18 pm
by Cap'n Cat
Forgive my Midwestern naivete', but are there any car washes in California any longer?
Re: CA farmers sucking Central Valley dry
Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 7:00 pm
by Appaholic
Cap'n Cat wrote:Forgive my Midwestern naivete', but are there any car washes in California any longer?
Hell yea!....it's a frigging entitlement to Californians that car washes, golf courses & water intensive agriculture be allowed...nay,
encouraged & subsidized, in the desert climate that is the Central Valley....
