Juan Browne explaining the flooding in the San Joaquin Valley
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I will never happen. It would take BILLIONS and significant opposition from all factions. The Salton Sea was formed early 1900's by overflow from the Colorado River. Thus, 15 dams were built. Pumping water from the north would encounter the high desert areas and several mountain ranges. San Joaquin Valley needs it more than the Salton Sea.
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I guess the hobbyist gold panning will pick up, in the future.
The New Melones Reservoir was the last dam built in California, completed in 1980. Since then the population has almost doubled. It doesn't take a math major figure out that disconnect.
Population Nevada 1980 - 800,000
2022 - 3,180,000
Nearly 4 times as much.
CA has gone from 24 to 39 million in that time, but last several years has actually declined.
How many dams, reservoirs, aqueducts has your state built? Why don't you import water to Clark County (2/3 of the total pop.) from Reno/Lake Tahoe area? 600+ inches of snow now!
80% of CA water is used in agriculture.
All the best locations for dams and reservoirs in CA is already taken.
Ground water gets little attention, but is critical to the total program.
The CA aqueduct system is without equal.
Water usage per capita is declining. Landscaping being a major reason why.
These are just random thoughts. I don't have time to write a serious essay which this subject dearly needs.
Please do some research on this subject. Then post something good.
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Really? Really?
I have researched the subject. Do you know the entire water supply from the Reno/Lake Tahoe region in Nevada is already used? That Walker Lake at the end of the Walker River (drainage from Tahoe area) is already undersupplied? That virtually no rainfall in Nevada flows unimpeded to the ocean, unlike the majority of floodwaters in California? That unlike California, every place a productive dam could be built, there is a productive dam. That just because the best places in California already have dams, there could easily be double the number of productive dams if one could get past the obstructionists? That Southern Nevada, where the majority of growth you cite gets only 300,000 acre feet of water per year from our Lake Mead whereas California gets 4.4 million acre feet per year from it?
I wonder how this region of the USA will be in 10-20 years ?
Why sooo many golf courses in an area that is so dry ?
Good question. Because crooked politicians play golf?
A lot of times golf courses are put in by developers so they can make massive profits on golf course lots, as well as the rest of the upscale development. After the lots are built out, the developer sells the unprofitable golf course to another developer who shutters the course, then threatens to build out condos if his plans to put in single house lots on the former golf course aren't approved. The Badlands golf course is the most recent example of this.
The biggest golf course developer in Southern Nevada was former used car salesman and sports better Bill Walters. Before being convicted of felony insider trading, Mr. Walters would get sweetheart deals with the local politicians. They would lease him land for basically free and they would give him water rights if he would develop a golf course. Once the course had been operated for some years, Walters would demand the right to develop the land to commercial uses or housing, and would offer back the water rights as consideration for the County giving him fee simple title to the previously leased property, and allowing development. To the best of my knowledge he was never convicted of bribing local officials to get these unbelievable deals.
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