California has one year's worth of water remaining per NASA scientist

[92tide]

So very true. Long range planning seems to be a lost concept in many areas.

often times it is met with cries of socialism, big government, business killing regulation and other non-sence

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Then there's the environmental pov. (i.e., stopping irrigation to thousands of square miles of fruit orchards so that they can protect the habitat of a mouse.)

Would that that would be the easy, facile answer. It's not...

 

[TIDE-HSV]

often times it is met with cries of socialism, big government, business killing regulation and other non-sence

This country used to be capable of some long-range planning. That's no longer the case. In fact, there seems to have arisen a cult that planning of any sort is bad, per se...

 

[CajunCrimson]

great point about the nut farming......isn't it something like one walnut requires 5 gallons of water.....?

 

[mikes12]

How will this affect how Muslims feel about themselves?

 

[Tidewater]

often times it is met with cries of socialism, big government, business killing regulation and other non-sence

You say that like socialism is a bad thing.

 

[Tidewater]

How will this affect how Muslims feel about themselves?

Like.

 

[Displaced Bama Fan]

This country used to be capable of some long-range planning. That's no longer the case. In fact, there seems to have arisen a cult that planning of any sort is bad, per se...

It's hard to long term plan when your government gives everything away for free. No one has any sense of self-preservation or self-reliance any longer. It's become a lost concept along with budgeting and living within your means.

 

[Displaced Bama Fan]

Lake Mead water level

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-famiglietti-drought-california-20150313-story.html

Do you think they would let us all pee in it or would they drain it like Oregon did?

 

[Bama Reb]

Do you think they would let us all pee in it or would they drain it like Oregon did?

By the looks of it, a lot of folks have been doing a lot more than just peeing in that water, and for a very long time.

 

[Displaced Bama Fan]

I bet they find a lot of missing people with the water so low...sad to think that, but...

 

[selmaborntidefan]

So when the water is not "gone" in one year, this dude wins the Nobel Prize for science, right?

And gets a cushy job running around making doomsday predictions.

I'm only partially kidding here (because having lived there I don't deny there's a problem but really - a year?)

 

[crimsonaudio]

So when the water is not "gone" in one year, this dude wins the Nobel Prize for science, right?

And gets a cushy job running around making doomsday predictions.

I'm only partially kidding here (because having lived there I don't deny there's a problem but really - a year?)

One year of current usage, yeah - at that point they're not out of water, but they're forced into severe restrictions. Avoiding that would be nice, but I'm not sure how it's possible.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Even severe restrictions will not make the millions upon millions of dollars which should have been made years ago in modern agricultural equipment to make what they have conserve what they have. For those who know at least a smidgeon of economics, it has a well-known name - "The Tragedy of the Commons..."

 

[Bodhisattva]

You say that like socialism is a bad thing.

Heh. There's no doubt that many big government apologists look at the central planning spectacle that is the Aral Sea disaster and think, "If only we could have a little more government involvement we could fix what capitalism broke."

 

[BamaFlum]

I remembered reading an article about a guy in Oregon getting fined for collecting rain water to use on his ranch. Don't we need more people to use rain water collection?

 

[Bama Reb]

I remembered reading an article about a guy in Oregon getting fined for collecting rain water to use on his ranch. Don't we need more people to use rain water collection?

Like so many other things, it has more to do with government entities losing revenue than the citizens' need of water for irrigation and other human needs.

 

[Displaced Bama Fan]

I remembered reading an article about a guy in Oregon getting fined for collecting rain water to use on his ranch. Don't we need more people to use rain water collection?

Didn't Gmart say Marylandstan has a rain tax?

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Somehow, I knew that, in a board packed with self-proclaimed economic experts, no one would know what the "Tragedy of the Commons" meant...

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Somehow, I knew that, in a board packed with self-proclaimed economic experts, no one would know what the "Tragedy of the Commons" meant...

I will confess I had never heard the term before, but I'm excluded since I really have no idea what will work economically or not. Or more precisely, I know what won't work more than I know what actually will. It seems to me that if any one economic theory worked like a charm then all the others would be obsolete.