On Thu, 3 Jul 2014 08:01:34 -0700 (PDT), Harry K
wrote:

On Thursday, July 3, 2014 5:48:55 AM UTC-7, Kurt Ullman wrote:
In article ,

Ashton Crusher wrote:



Yeah, I don't get it how people are all worked up of a couple yeas of

bad weather in a few places. Within every decade there are floods and

hurricanes and tornados and crap somewhere in the US. And changing

weather is normal, did people think nothing was ever going to change

after they were born?



I especially liked the arguments after Sandy about how two "100 year"

storms happening so close together had to mean something. Silly me, I

never knew that 100 year storms were scheduled and not random occurances.


It is far more than "a few years". The entire middle of the states where irrigation is relied upon for agriculture is running out of water. The water table is dropping and that water is not being replenished, it is "fossil" water from centuries on centuries of storage.

They are deepening wells every year but don't seem to see the elephant in the room, the water isn't going to last forever.

Harry K

So what does that have to do with global warming? They are
overdrawing the aquifer and that has nothing to do with the last
decade or two of a 0.3 degree change in average global temperature.

On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 11:25:03 -0700, Ashton Crusher
wrote:

So what does that have to do with global warming? They are
overdrawing the aquifer and that has nothing to do with the last
decade or two of a 0.3 degree change in average global temperature.

Nothing! California gets most of the water, Arizona gets some - on
down the line.

Lake Mead is at a historical low, for sure. My water utility paid me
money to remove lawn turf, cap off irrigation, etc.. Much of the city
has done it for the money. Billion of water acres have been saved.

Golf courses (many) now use gray water for the greens, etc.

I'm not worried to death about water here. I can move.

....Water Level -1,081.80 FEET -Saturday, July 12, 2014
11:23:00 AM - Level is 147.20 feet -below full pool of 1,229.00

http://mead.uslakes.info/Level.asp

The sly problem here is some of CA goes dark after the turbines can't
produce energy.

Should I worry?!

In article ,
Oren wrote:

Golf courses (many) now use gray water for the greens, etc.

Most of the casinos have been using grey water for their water falls
and other features for years.
--
"Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive,
but what they conceal is vital."
-- Aaron Levenstein

In article ,
Oren wrote:

On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 11:25:03 -0700, Ashton Crusher
wrote:

So what does that have to do with global warming? They are
overdrawing the aquifer and that has nothing to do with the last
decade or two of a 0.3 degree change in average global temperature.

Nothing! California gets most of the water, Arizona gets some - on
down the line.

Lake Mead is at a historical low, for sure. My water utility paid me
money to remove lawn turf, cap off irrigation, etc.. Much of the city
has done it for the money. Billion of water acres have been saved.

I'd like to see a cite for that



Golf courses (many) now use gray water for the greens, etc.

I'm not worried to death about water here. I can move.

...Water Level -1,081.80 FEET -Saturday, July 12, 2014
11:23:00 AM - Level is 147.20 feet -below full pool of 1,229.00

http://mead.uslakes.info/Level.asp

The sly problem here is some of CA goes dark after the turbines can't
produce energy.

first to go dark would be Las Vegas, but the good news is that as it
goes dark, there is less need to give them water



Should I worry?!