So, this is sunshine…
[Editor: Froggy was outside earlier this week on the day the sun appeared for a short time. We were actually without rain for three days, but were rescued from the possible death of the mildew when it started raining again yesterday.]
[Note: Our average rainfall for the entire month of July is 6.18 inches. So far through today we have had 8.67 inches.]
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How about a Keystone Water Pipeline from Florida to California? We could use some of that wet stuff here!
I assume that California has covered the American Canal so that it stops losing half the water to evaporation. 😉
We don’t have many reservoirs in the state, so there isn’t a start point for a pipeline.
Actually, at one reporting station on Eglin AFB to the East of me, they have reported receiving twice as much rain as we got. It definitely isn’t a good thing for tourism.
The American Canal still isn’t covered, and it wasn’t losing half its water to evaporation — it was losing half its water to *seepage*, since it was unlined. Yes, it has now been lined, which annoys the Mexicans greatly because the seepage went into groundwater, which they then pumped and used for their *own* agriculture. No seepage = no groundwater = no Mexican agriculture just south of the border.
The Los Angeles Aqueduct that turns the Owens Valley into a desert has always been covered other than the storage reservoirs. It’s actually a pair of aqueducts nowadays, one pulling from the original dams on the lower Owens Valley, the other pulling from wells and the upper Owens Valley. It still boggles my mind that Los Angeles managed to pull that one off, it must have required their own private army in the early days to protect the digs from irate farmers whose water was stolen.
Western water rights issues have never made a bit of sense to anyone not from the area. The movie Chinatown is a decent introduction to the process. They certainly had private armies in California, just read the labor history for the state. Every corrupt scheme ever devised in Boston, New York, and Chicago was taken to Los Angeles where they added Technicolor and Cinerama.
It’s still annoys the hell out of me that Federal tax payers subsidize the water used to grow rice in the desert.