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California's Low On Water? Time to Fine the Water Resources Board Not Its Citizens

Posted by straightlinelogic 10 years, 6 months ago to Government
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My sincere condolences to anyone living in CA who has to put up with its government's nonsense. I got out 2 years ago.
SOURCE URL: http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasdelbeccaro/2014/07/10/californias-low-on-water-time-to-fine-the-water-resources-board-not-its-citizens/

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  • Posted by Lucky 10 years, 6 months ago
    Singapore- imports a lot of water across the causeway from Malaysia. About 25 years ago the president of Israel made a holiday stop in Singapore. Malaysian Muslims threatened to cut off the water. Singapore still imports water, but now they are ready.
    California- the solution is simple tho' painful, abolish the Water Resources Board. Abolish government price controls. Prices will likely soar. Then demand drops, with high prices business will find more. Yes the poor, especially, will suffer. Subsidies on goods are nothing new, they had subsidies on bread in Egypt, then the government just had to cut back. The riots were inevitable. The longer it is left the worse the impact.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 10 years, 6 months ago
    Maybe growing cotton in the desert isn't such a good idea either (as it relates to water consumption.)
    Oh, btw, hemp requires half the water to grow compared to cotton, is much more durable, and is very comfortable for clothing.
    Hemp? Horrors! Reefer Madness!

    There were 300,000 acres of cotton grown in thirsty CA last year.
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  • Posted by lrbeggs 10 years, 6 months ago
    We are preparing to move out of SoCal. Sadly, feels like frying pan into the fire as we are headed to Boston.At least there is water there...
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 10 years, 6 months ago
    With what they are spending on their problematic pet projects (A High Speed Rail project, mired in lawsuits and of uncertain costs – at least $68 billion but perhaps double that amount, and A 2004 $3 billion stem cell bond program ($6 billion with interest) that has produced no approved therapies but has, according to the AP, resulted in “the opening of sleek buildings and gleaming labs at a dozen private and public universities built with matching funds” without any cures in the pipeline. Of course, now they want more money.) couldn't they build a few desalination plants along the coast? Might even help with "Rising Sea Levels"...LOL
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  • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 10 years, 6 months ago
    Wait, I predicted that government will charge people tax for respiration (breathing) - human and pets. I expect CA to take point when this "idea" come to the table.

    Water - all of the southwestern states have issues with water consumption. I do wonder how much revenue this scheme will make and how much water they really think will be conserved?
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  • Posted by Hiraghm 10 years, 6 months ago
    It's time for The Martian Way in California...

    In The Martian Way, an Earth politician named "Hilder" is trying to gain power by blaming Mars, the Moon, Venus and various outposts with using up all Earth's water (fuel, don'tcha know).

    He uses Global Warming type figures (doctored and exaggerated), and gets Earth up in alarm.

    Just as Earth cuts Mars allotment, a young kid, one of the two-man "scavengers" who retrieve the shells of rockets from interplanetary space, comes up with a plan to travel to Saturn and come back with one of its icy moons.

    They get back just as the governor is forced to sign a treating cutting off water from Earth... And this honking big moon lands, and the governor tells the Earth reps, in front of the press, that Martians care about Earth, and don't want anything to happen to it. So they'd sell Earth water at so much a cubic foot. And once they got the system going, they'd sell it by the cubic mile. Earth can stop worrying, Mars can sell it all the water it needs.

    So.

    Some enterprising types need to head up to Alaska or the Arctic (or the antarctic if they wanna be real snotty about it)... and drag back an iceberg or three.

    Park it in the harbor, start tapping it for water. Offer to sell some to the city, cheap.


    Not my original idea; Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven, iirc... "Oath of Fealty", a book a lot of Objectivists here would like... a lot. Or not at all...

    Think of it as evolution in action...
    http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/14165...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_Fe...
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