Comments on: Giant desal plant planned for Camp Pendleton

By: vintage

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By: Queeg

Queeg — Sat, 02 May 2015 06:38:28 +0000

In reply to Bill Gore. Me thinks enviro reviews can be minimal and pragmatic and timely on federal land. Hope so.

By: Bill Gore

Bill Gore — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 04:52:06 +0000

The orthodox environmental community in San Diego closed ranks around the idea that desal was going to destroy the ‘precious marine environment’, and then bled themselves white fighting the Poseidon plant in court. The fact that the real agenda had nothing to do with prtecting the environment was proven by the way they kept pivoting in their arguments against the plant: first it was the fish larvae, then it was the saline effluent, then it was the temperature of the effluent, etc etc. As each point was shot down they came up with another ‘crucial’ problem. The real agenda was simple: power, control, shutting down economic growth.

By: Queeg

Queeg — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 03:53:01 +0000

Interesting but irrelevant!

The water rate increases will funnel into pensions and choo choo’s

Be thirsty my friend!

By: Tesla_x

Tesla_x — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 05:36:32 +0000

In reply to Wolfman.

“Environmental Diversions” use the lions share of the state’s water supplies, but the ECO SPIN machine just loves to demonize their favorite targets: residential users, farmers, nut farmers, dairies, meat processors, Mexicans, oil companies, etc.

Basically, anyone hated by the sierra club, the center for biological diversity, petakillsanimals.com, the NRDC, the Packard foundation, greenpeace, or other left wing NGOs, have been blaming everyone else for this drought becoming worse.

The sad facts are that ECO-Diversions use 1.4 TRILLION gal/yr, or 100 gal/day, for every man/woman/child in California, all~38M of us

Reference the Eco-diversion number in this recent Wsj article:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/californias-farm-water-scapegoat-1428706579

“Environmental diversions consume 4.4 million acre feet per year”

Now go here:
http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/flow_rate_volume/acre_foot_year.html

That 4.4 million acres a year is really 1.4 TRILLION gallons per year going to things like restarting dry rivers, protecting the SMELT, etc, basically ‘Eco-terraforming experiments.’
Failing ones at that, which are going against decades long natural ocean cycles.

Some older research on this specific topic here:
http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/climatechange00/IdeaArticles/TheEffectsofPDOonSalmonPo.html

Instead of trying to fight Mother Nature, we should be saving those trillions of gallons for city water supplies, farming, and the groundwater recharge that goes hand in hand with that water working its way south into the Central Valley.

Remember: water to farmers also by default recharges the water table near many of the valley rivers and towns whose wells are now going dry.

The Eco spin machine won’t tell you that either.

Restarting a river up north for an Eco-experiment steals water from rivers further south, and from those who need it NOW.

By: Wolfman

Wolfman — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 01:46:38 +0000

In reply to Roberta. illegal aliens also use a lot of water

By: Roberta

Roberta — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 22:50:45 +0000

What is wrong with the system? We’ve had 5 years to begin the process & yet where are we now? This is sounding like the boondoggle of repair of Bay Bridge in SF Bay Area. We can live without fast speed trains, but we cannot live without WATER.